The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-20

accidental.
/ asked him if he had been to the
ball. He said he had. s'That gal
and mighty pearty gal she was, too
was there. but she sorter fought
shy of me. got this new suit to go
in, but those walters sorter run me
into private box and / didn't get
much chance to continniew our talk
about them checks. But that young
fellow, Mr.. Dashboard, was mighty
perlite. He brought lots of fellers
and young women round to the box
to see me; and he made up party
that night to take me round Wall
street and in them Stock Boards.
And the next day he called for me and
took me, and I invested about $500 in
them stocks-maybe more. You see
we sorter snapped stocks. You know
l had ten shares in the Peacock Cop
per mine, that you was once secretary
Of"
s:But those shares are not worth
cent. The whole thing exploded ten
years ago.
ssThat's SO, maybe-yOu say SO.
But then I didn't know anything
more about Commuipaw Company and
SO | thought it was square game.
Only I realized on the stock bought,
and l KEN up outer Wall street about
$40O better. You see it was sorter
risk, after all, for them Peacock
stocks might come up -
I looked into his face; it was i'm
measurably serene and commonplace.
r 10 I, of of no
man, or rather of my want Of judg-
ment of the man, and, after few
words, we shook hands and parted.
It was some months before / again
saw the man from SolanO. When
found that he had actually become a
member of the Stock Board, and had
little office on Broad street, where
he transacted fair business. My
remembrance going back to the first
night met him, inquired if he had
renewed his acquaintance with Miss
Y.
81 heard she was in Newport this
summer, and / ran down there for a
week.
And you talked with her about
those baggage checks =
NO" he said seriously, "she gave
me a commission to buy some stocks
for her. You see, l guess them
| fash 'nable fellers sorter got to runnin
her about me, and SO she put our
acquaintance on a square business
footing. | tell you she's right peart
gal. Did We hear of the accident
that happened to her
/ had not.
swell, you see, she was out yachting
and 1 managed through one of those
fellers to get an invite, too. The
whole thing was got up by man they
say is goin to marry her. Well, one
afternoon the boom swims round in a
little squall and knocks her overheard.
There was an awful excitement
you've heard about it, maybe y
No! But saw all with a roman
GERS instinct in flash Of poetry, this
poor fellow, debarred through
uncouthness from expressing his affec-
ton for her. had at last found his
fitting opportunity. He had
''Thar was an awful row. he went
on. Il ran on the taffrail, and there,
a dozen yards away was that purity
creature, that peart gal, and L"
You jumped for herr l said
hastily.
mol" he said gravely; Il let the
other man do the jumping. / sor tel
looked on
/ stared at him in establishment.
No" he went on seriously; she
was the man who jumped-that was
just then his put-his line of business.
| You see. if / had waltzed over the
side of that ship, covorted in, and
flummixed round, and finally Topped
to the bottom, that other man would
have jumped natural like and saved
her, and ez he was goin't to marry
her anyway, don exactly see where
I'd have been represented in the
transaction. But. don't you see, e
after he jumped and hadn't got her
he'd gone down himself. I'd hav ha(
the next best chance. and the advan
tage of having him outer the way
You see you don't understand me-
don't believe you did in Californy.''
'.Then he did save her p
ssOf course. Don't you see she wa.
all right! If he'd missed her I'd hay
Clipped in. Their warn't no sense il
my doing his duty unless he failed.
Somehow the story got out. The
man from Solano as a butt becam,
more popular than ever, and of cours,
received invitations to burlesqus
receptions, and naturally met a grea
many people whom otherwise HI
would not have seen. 1t was observed
also. that his 500 was steadily CROWN.
and that he seemed to be getting OF
in business. Certain California stock
which l had seen quietly inferred il
the old days in the tombs of thei
fathers were magically revived. and
remember, as one who has seen
ghost to have been shocked as lool
over the quotations one morning t.
have seen the ghostly face of tn
dead Beat Beach Mining Company.
rough and plastered, look out from
the columns of the morning paper
At last few people began to respect
or suspect the man from Solano. A
last suspicion eliminated with thi
} accident.