Summary
Marion Taylor, luminous stenographer amid the chromium canyons of Wall Street, types futures she will never afford while her consumptive brother Tommy exhales the last of their shared childhood in a cramped tenement. Edward Mallory, Midas in pin-stripes, dangles a purse thick enough to buy alpine air, yet the coin is minted from her flesh. She prepares to surrender under the greenish pall of neon, but the city—ever a fickle dramaturge—throws her a counterfeit reprieve: a vanished heir, a forged deed, a midnight cab ride that may outrun disgrace. In the hush before dawn she must decide whether salvation earned by another’s sin weighs less on the soul than the price of her own.
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Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his doctors that he has to go to the mountains for his health. Marion doesn't have the money for that, but Mallory, who has made no secret of his intentions towards her, does. She resigns herself to submitting to his advances in order to get the money in order to keep her brother alive. However, circumstances arise in which she may possibly get the money without having to debase herself with her boss.
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