The Gem Collector

By: Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville

Book Excerpt: rt and learning?--die, butleave us still our old nobility. I'm a big man now, Spike, I can tellyou.""Gee!""My position has also the advantage of carrying a good deal of moneywith it.""Plunks!""You have grasped it. Plunks. Dollars. Doubloons. I line up with thethickwads now, Spike. I don't have to work to turn a dishonest pennyany longer."The horrid truth sank slowly into the other's mind."Say! What, Mr. Chames? Youse don't need to go on de old lay no more?You're cutting it out for fair?""That's the idea."Spike gasped. His world was falling about his ears. Now that he hadmet Mr. Chames again he had looked forward to a long and prosperouspartnership in crime, with always the master mind behind him to directhis movements and check him if he went wrong. He had looked out uponthe richness of London, and he had said with Bl?cher: "What a city toloot!"And here was his leader shattering his visions with a word."Have another drink, Spike," said the lost leader sympathRead More

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798728302599
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"