Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: The underscore character "_" is used in this book to indicate italics markup in the original, as in "Then he _must_ hold on." The only exception to this is where it is used to indicate a subscript, specifically in H_20 and CO_2, the common chemical formulas for water and carbon dioxide referenced in the text. [Illustration: "DON DEAR, YOU'RE LIVING TOO MUCH DOWNTOWN"] THE WALL STREET GIRL BY FREDERICK ORIN BARTLETT WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE ELLIS WOLFE NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT, 1915 AND 1916, BY EVERY WEEK CORPORATION COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY FREDERICK ORIN BARTLETT ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published September 1916 TO THALIA CONTENTS I. Don Receives a Jolt 1 II. It Becomes Necessary to Eat 11 III. The Queen Was in the Parlor 20 IV. Concerning Sandwiches 27 V. Business 43 VI. Two Girls 64 VII. Roses 71 VIII. A Man of Affairs 80 IX. It Will Never Do 93 X. Dictation 100 XI. Steak, With Mushrooms and Advice 111 XII. A Social Widow 123 XIII. Dear Sir-- 129 XIV. In Reply 138 XV. Cost 144 XVI. A Memorandum 153 XVII. On the Way Home 161 XVIII. A Discourse on Salaries 171 XIX. A Letter 184 XX. Stars 185 XXI. In the Dark 193 XXII. The Sensible Thing 200 XXIII. Looking Ahead 207 XXIV. Vacations 215 XXV. In the Park 223 XXVI. One Stuyvesant 238 XXVII. The Stars Again 247 XXVIII. Seeing 256 XXIX. Mostly Sally 264 XXX. Don Explains 275 XXXI.