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T is a penalty of Prominence to be photographed. The Home Edition of the Evening Journal, which an attendant was placing on the tables in the club when Gordon dropped in at four o'clock, flaunted a four-column cut on the first page which purported to be a snap-shot of the young millionaire emerging from the offices of the Central and Western Railroad after a conference with the directors. Had the reproduction been a little clearer it might have been observed that a frown disturbed the usual placidity of the young gentleman's brow. As it was, however, one had to accept the enterprising photographer's word as to the identity of the subject, for the picture showed only a dim figure, attired in light clothes and a derby hat, striding from the marble entrance of a building, with a feather duster vender shuffling into range and a messenger-boy in the act of observing the principal figure over his shoulder and colliding
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