X A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK 207
XX BOJO HUNTS A JOB 213
XXI BOJO IN OVERALLS 222
XXII DORIS MEETS A CRISIS 234
XXIII THE LETTER TO PATSIE 247
XXIV PATSIE APPEALS FOR HELP 259
XXV DRAKE ADMITS HIS DANGER 270
XXVI A FIGHT IN MILLIONS 277
XXVII PATSIE'S SCHEME 288
XXVIII ONE LAST CHANCE 302
XXIX THE DELUGE 309
XXX THE AFTER-YEARS 323

ILLUSTRATIONS

"'Bojo, you must marry Doris,' she said brokenly" _Frontispiece_
FACING
PAGE
"'Say, you're a judge of muscle, aren't you?'" 40
"'Just you wait; you're going to be one of the big men some
day!'" 104
"'Drina, dear child,' he said in a whisper" 144
"The message was the end of hope" 158
"'What does all the rest amount to?' she said breathlessly. 'I
want you'" 208
"'He wants to see you now,' she said" 268
"'Your promise. No one is to know what I do'" 292

CHAPTER I

THE ARRIVAL

Toward the close of a pleasant September afternoon, in one of the years
when the big stick of President Roosevelt was cudgeling the shoulders of
malefactors of great wealth, the feverish home-bound masses which poured
into upper Fifth Avenue with the awakening of the electric night were
greeted by the strangest of all spectacles which can astound a
metropolitan crowd harassed by the din of sounds, the fret and fury of
the daily struggle which is the tyranny of New York. A very young man,
of clean-cut limbs and boyish countenance, absolutely unhurried amidst
the press, without a trace of preoccupation, worry, or painful mental
concentration, was swinging easily up the