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He had , however , spoken rather loudly and had informed the man that he was from Montana , with no effect whatever upon the clicking . He had listened patiently to the glowing description of several `` good buys , '' and had escaped with difficulty within ten minutes after hearing the unseen typist addressed as `` Fern . '' At the third place he merely looked in at the door and retreated hastily when the agent , like a spider on the watch , started forward . When he limped into the office of his hotel at six o'clock , Andy was ready to swear that every foot of land in California was for sale , and that every man in San Jose was trying his best to sell it and looked upon him , Andy Green , as a weak-minded millionaire who might be induced to purchase . He had not visited all the places where they kept bulletin-boards covered with yellowed placards abounding in large type and many fat exclamation points and the word ONLY with a dollar mark immediately after . All ? He had not visited half of them , or a third !