Theodore Dreiser

The Titan Theodore Dreiser

Book Excerpt: ...hree weeks, or I'll send for you. I'd take you now, only I don't know how that country is out there. We'll fix on some place, and then you watch me settle this fortune question. We'll not live under a cloud always. I'll get a divorce, and we'll marry, and things will come right with a bang. Money will do that."He looked at her with his large, cool, penetrating eyes, and she clasped his cheeks between her hands."Oh, Frank," she exclaimed, "I'll miss you so! You're all I have.""In two weeks," he smiled, as the train began to move, "I'll wire or be back. Be good, sweet."She followed him with adoring eyes--a fool of love, a spoiled child, a family pet, amorous, eager, affectionate, the type so strong a man would naturally like--she tossed her pretty red gold head and waved him a kiss. Then she walked away with rich, sinuous, healthy strides--the type that men turn to look after."That's her--that's that Butler girl," observed one railroad clerk to another. "Gee! a man wouldn...