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Title: The Gorgeous Girl

Author: Nalbro Bartley

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THE GORGEOUS GIRL

by

NALBRO BARTLEY

Illustrated

[Illustration: "He was very diplomatic in his undertaking"]

Garden City--New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1920

Copyright, 1920, By
Doubleday, Page & Company
All Rights Reserved, Including That of
Translation into Foreign Languages,
Including the Scandinavian

Copyright, 1919, 1920, by The Curtis Publishing Company

ILLUSTRATIONS

"He was very diplomatic in his undertaking" Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
"The Gorgeous Girl had never known anything but the
most gorgeous side of life" 12
"It was with a charming timidity that she tip-toed
into the office" 188
"A get-rich-quick man always pays for his own speed" 284

THE GORGEOUS GIRL

CHAPTER I

"Before long two bank accounts will beat as one," Trudy said to Mary
Faithful. "Tra-la-la-la-la," humming the wedding march while the
office force of the O'Valley Leather Company listened with expressions
ranging from grins to frowns.

"Sh-h-h! Mr. O'Valley has just opened his door." As she was private
secretary and general guardian to Steve O'Valley, president of the
concern, Miss Faithful's word usually had a decisive effect.

But Trudy was irrepressible. Besides boarding at the Faithful home and
thus enjoying a certain intimacy with