Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-12-18
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and tlie man who sllesltates, SUI
renders.
.sThere are several stocks tina
aresdowil,' he said, that m:ly 90.
sbonlderecommend the B.; s. Il W.
.B., S 81 W."
"Yes the Bartiell, ST.. Blrnah'
Waukeeshaw railroad. lis sJailll
ing nnw at g."
Flow an { to so aoont it
Z pleaseY'
estokl her.
.sD,ar mel I shall never renlem
Der all that. Please to write it al
down for III, Twill ynn9n
Van Stop.l, still naler.the fi.sci
natiorL took on5 hi, pencil and
wrote, while. Mllicent sat by. ex-
pectant. She VII, at his shoulder
her breatll famed his temples, and
he co'lld scarcely write legibly, bu'
lie perscveipI.
:, cob, thank you, so m lch.''
s.Now," said HI, I have shown
you.two " lys. Youcan either buy
atsten-tlay,, or vol can bay oat
right. i should RECOMMEND tile
tatsar .i!I: llslll
he ten per cent. on the par valiIA'
which is 1OD, anil notion tile Se''in,
price, which is niue. Now you
buy at ten DAYS; you GIN only ge1,
say about twenty-five shares, for
you must keep some back TO fill up
your IN llgin in clse it fills
ell up my mirgin!"
eyes; | have expIaine that OF
the paper. But if You buy outright
you will get twenty seven shares,
for ynl will have no margin To fill
and your profits will BE- Ill ,re. Ii
yon were to put ten THOUSAND DOL
l,rS or more into the tran ,acti0n it
would be different. Then Il reSpon
siblc broker, able to Curly the
amount either by his own means OF
through credit, would treat the
stock, which has kept uniform price
so long, us t.,vorablya az he would Il
dividend paying stock, and give
you Il contract ut 5, and possibly
at 3 per cent. with your SIN tit
amount, buy the stock oft right
I'll recommend you to il response
bile broker; but he is one | never do
business wlth-a good and honor
able man, though; but you must
promise that you WON'T tell him OF
ANY one else that sent YOU"
81 promise that [ won't breath it
hot even 10 father"
Mlllicent played the piano for
him-she played fairly; anil sung
Tor him-she sang well. Van $40
pei was in the seventh hetven, Ill |
and was on the verge of proposing
right then and there, bus be lacked
courage. lie, left, however, in an
&c ,v,of delight, but 1t did not last
long. H., was meditlEing one of
his great strokes of finance, and
that soon resumed possession Of
him to the exclusion OF everything
else.
The next day. while the elder
Duke was at the factory, Frank
w;ls at the house, 4 note having been
brought him. Milly met him BEAM
ing.
"Frank," she cried, "do you want
a SlO0,9OO!"
.Do [, Nlilley! DON'T 1 the worst
kind" And he told her what her
father had said.
''He Ylid the same to mo, Frank.
Can You realize on that mortgage
of yonrs!"
mo, 1 can't because l have. 1t
was all paid mp last week, and Pm
looking around for u new invest
ment in one lump if | can
a long conversation ensued, and
MiIly gave her views with great eli
ergy and decision. Frank demur-
red, hut fiallly half gave way.
HAS any one given you any in
formation that makes you so conf
dents'
ri promised not TO tell"
"Nlay be old Van Slope"
"Ask me no more questions"
Gum, it is a great risk after all.
Suppose it were to keep going
downg"
.'I've written on this paper what
you are to do then. ln fact here
your whole directions"
"But how do you know-how did
you learn"
TASK me no questions.
"Well, but"
sDon't but me Frank. We're
not married; and Pm your master
now. Take two hundred aud fifty
from me and put it in the pool"
Inc baFlltlu, OF. DaflaUy di''
WawkeeShaw was one Of those
railroads began when everything
was at paper value. that rail- from
Bartlett, which WAS next to no
where, to Wawleesllaw, which WIS
about the same kind of place, with
abrtnch to st. Barnaby, an out OF
the way spot 1t was a hundred
miles lcng with It's branch. Other
railways fought it and refused ii
connection; it was heavily mort
gagged; its expenses a little over
balanced its receipts at times, and
it had Stood at 8, nomin.lil at that
for two years. Nobody wanted 1t,
i'll fact, at any price. That it would
p1-nr ri sn scanned unavoidable If not