THE MASTER ROGUE
OTHER BOOKS BY
DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS
The Great God Success, Her Serene Highness
A Woman Ventures
Golden Fleece
“The razor cut me and dropped to the floor.”
THE MASTER ROGUE
The Confessions of a Crœsus
By
David Graham Phillips
Illustrated by Gordon H. Grant
McClure, Phillips & Co.
New York
1903
Copyright, 1903, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO
Published September, 1903
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| “The Razor cut me, and dropped to the floor” | Frontispiece |
Facing Page | |
| “‘Don’t get apoplectic,’ he said, calmly; ‘youknow you stole your start’” | 39 |
| “‘You liar! you forger!’” | 73 |
| “‘Not to have told you would have been a lie’” | 119 |
| “‘You will marry on the sixteenth of April, atnoon. Get yourself ready’” | 129 |
| “I came upon Helen, sitting in the alcove, sobbing” | 218 |
THE MASTER ROGUE
I
I cannot remember the time when I was notabsolutely certain that I would be a millionaire.And I had not been a week in the bigwholesale dry-goods house in Worth Streetin which I made my New York start, beforeI looked round and said to myself: “I shallbe sole proprietor here some day.”
Probably clerks dream the same thing everyday in every establishment on earth—but Ididn’t dream; I knew. From earliest boyhoodI had seen that the millionaire was theonly citizen universally envied, honoured, andlooked up to. I wanted to be in the first class,and I knew I had only to stick to my