By chance, this job leads to him meeting his wealthy uncle, who allows him to establish himself in his collar factory, where he meets the girl that will eventually prove his downfall.
One character in this work gets the protagonist a job at the Union League Club in Chicago as a bellhop. Both Ratterer and the protagonist had held the same job at the Green-Davidson in Kansas City, until an accident that killed a little girl forced them to flee. By chance, this job leads to him meeting his wealthy uncle, who allows him to establish himself in his collar factory, where he meets the girl that will eventually prove his downfall. His plans to marry socialite Sondra Finchley go up in flames when a factory girl drowns in Big Bittern Lake after he hits her with his camera, and he is convicted the murder of the pregnant Roberta Alden. Name, for 10 points, this novel that ends with the execution of Clyde Griffiths, a work by Theodore Dreiser.
One character in this work gets the protagonist a job at the Union League Club in Chicago as a bellhop.
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