EBOOK, THE DESIRED WOMAN ***
Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading
Team.
THE DESIRED WOMAN
By WILL N. HARBEN
Author of "Dixie Hart," "Pole Baker," "The
Redemption of Kenneth Galt," Etc.
WITH FRONTISPIECE
TO
VELLA AND BILLY
PART I
CHAPTER I
Inside the bank that June morning the clerks and accountants on their
high stools were bent over their ponderous ledgers, although it was
several minutes before the opening hour. The gray-stone building was
in Atlanta's most central part on a narrow street paved with asphalt
which sloped down from one of the main thoroughfares to the section
occupied by the old passenger depot, the railway warehouses, and
hotels of various grades. Considerable noise, despite the closed
windows and doors, came in from the outside. Locomotive bells slowly
swung and clanged; steam was escaping; cabs, drays, and trucks rumbled
and creaked along; there was a whir of a street-sweeping machine
turning a corner and the shrill cries of newsboys selling the morning
papers.
Jarvis Saunders, member of the firm of Mostyn, Saunders & Co., bankers
and brokers, came in; and, hanging his straw hat up, he seated himself
at his desk, which the negro porter had put in order.
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