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So Big ends? Dirk chooses bonds over architecture
Dirk abandons architecture for bond selling in Chicago and climbs quickly among the city’s financiers. His mother Selina urges him toward his original profession, fearing he will desert beauty for currency, while Paula, his lover, tightens her grip and drives his rise.
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Dirk
Great Lakes Trust Company
Theodore Storm
Selina
Spain
Hollis & Sprague’s
Senna
Chicago
Peel's
First National Bank
Baldwin
Aug Hempel
Pettier
County
Limerick
Kilkenny
Scotland
Rhineland
Packer
Horatio Craft
New York
Peel
Holland Flats
Europe
America
Lfe
Julie Arnold
Julie
Paulo
Pev
Paula
Storm
Pervus de- Jong
Sunday Tribune
Jeunesse Doree
Asten
Gefilus
Meena
Kennedy
Farnham
North Shore
Huyler
Deeah