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Blue Book v035 n06 [1922-10], 1922
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1A Wall Street Sunset
3"Where the Money Grows," "An Empire Beleaguered" and divers short stories have made Mr. Garrett known as a skillful and authoritative writer of very American fact and fiction. This latest story reveals our money kings as very human folk.
5By GARET GARRETT
7TERRY was putting his newspaper to bed.
9"Be at home," he said over his shoulder. "School will be out in a minute."
11He was correcting short galley proofs of his leading financial article, written since the close of the stock-market.
13Over one proof he lingered, and fearing to make him uneasy with our eyes on his back, we began to browse among the dusty old monetary books that lined the walls. There were two chairs. On one lay several open volumes which Terry evidently had been consulting. The other was a swivel armchair the seat of which had been repaired in a cumulative manner by the simple invention of filling it with old newspapers, which now sloped so that it would be like trying to sit in the lap of a cellar door.
15"Make yourselves comfortable," said Terry absently, now beginning to write some new matter to be inserted in his proofs.
17"Go ahead," we said. "Don't mind us. We've nothing else to do."
19He had asked us very particularly to meet him here about five o'clock. By a whim of chance neither Riggs nor I had ever been in his shop before—in the editorial office of the Marketplace. That was the name of his Wall Street paper. We saw each other every day; five days in seven we dined together uptown, and often we lived in each other's rooms; but our official rendezvous, our place of joint being in financial hours, was the private office of J. W. Atchison & Co., on the threshold of J. W.'s lair, where much that took place in the stock-market had its
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