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CHAPTER II
RED DOT

From his inner sanctum, Average Jones stared obliquely out upon the
whirl of Fifth Avenue, warming itself under a late March sun.
In the outer offices a line of anxious applicants was being disposed
of by his trained assistants. To the advertising expert's offices
had come that day but three cases difficult enough to be referred to
the Ad-Visor himself. Two were rather intricate financial lures
which Average Jones was able to dispose of by a mere "Don't." The
third was a Spiritualist announcement behind which lurked a shrewd
plot to entrap a senile millionaire into a marriage with the medium.
These having been settled, the expert was free to muse upon a
paragraph which had appeared in all the important New York morning
papers of the day before.
REWARD-$1,000 reward for information
as to slayer of Brindle Bulldog "Rags"
killed in office of Malcolm Dorr, Stengel
Building, Union Square, March 29.
"That's too much money for a dog," decided Average Jones.


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