The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-12-18
TURNING A CORNER.
ny THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH.

the paper. But if you buy outright
YOU will get twenty-seven shares, for
you will have no margin to fill and
your profits will be more. If you
were 10 put ten thousand dollars or
more into the transaction it would
be different. Then a responsible
broker, able. to carry the amount
either by his own means or through
credit, would treat the stock, which
has kept uniform price so long, as
favorably as he would q dividend
paying stock, and give you a con-
tract at 5, and possibly at 3 per cent.
With your small amount, buy the
stock out right. I'llrecommendyou
to Il responsible broker; but he is
one never do business with-a
good and honorable man, though
but you must promise that you won't
tell him or any one else that l sent
you"
81 promise that 1 won't breathe
it-not evento father"
NIillicent played the piano for
him-she played fairly: and sang
for him-she sang well. Van Stopel
was in the seventh heaven, and was
on the verge of proposing right then
and there, but he lacked courage.
He left, however, in an ecstacy of
delight, but it did not last long. He
was meditating one of his great
strokes of finance, that soon resumed
possession of him to the exclusion
of everything else.
The next day, while the elder
Duke was at the factory, Frank was
at the house, a note having been
brought him. Milly met him,
beaming.
Frank" she cried, "do you want
a 100000 ?"
"Do l, Milly! Don't [, the worst
kind" And he told her what her
father had said.
"He said the same to me, Frank.
Can you realize on that mortgage Of +
yours p
"No, | can't, because l have. 1t
was all paid up last week, and Pm
looking around for a new invest
fment in one lump ifI can"
A long conversation ensued, and
Milly gave her views with greet
energy and decision. Frank demur-
red, but finally half gave way.
HAS any one given you any in
formation that makes you so conf
dent ?"
81 promised not to tell"
"May be old Van Stope--"
"Ask me no more questions"
"Um it is a great risk after all.
Suppose it were to keep going
DOWN."
1--WE written on this paper what
you are to do then. In fact, here
are your whole directions"
"But how do you know-how did
you leam?"
ASK me no more questions"
"Well, but"
"Don't butme, Frank. We're not
married, and I'm your master now
Take two hundred and fifty from
me, and put it in the pool"
The Barfeld, st. Barnaby and
Wawkeeshaw was one of those rail
roads began when everything was
at a paper value, that ran from Bar
field, which was next to nowhere, tc
Wawkeeshaw, which was about the
same kind of place, with Il branch
to St. Barnaby, an of the way spot
1t was a hundred miles long with its
branch. Other railways fought il
and refused connection; it was
heavily mortgaged ; its expenses &
little over balanced its receipts al
times, and it had stood at g. nomi
nal at that, for two years. Nobody
wanted it, in fact, at any price. That
it would ever rise seemed improba
bic if not impossible, and two days
after moore had secured a contract
at 5 per cent, and bought at 8, buy
er ten days, the stock figured at s
Some one had found out the pur
chase and was bearing. He had t.
fill up and he grew frightened. HI
couldn't sleep well. Milly, whosC
little balance Of fifty was drawn or
as she insisted it should be, was san
guine. She did not believe in Val
Stopel as a lover, but she had grea
confidence in him as an operator il
stocks.
1t leaked out that all the leadin.
brokers had contracts on hand t
deliver large amounts of stock, an,
the bears went to work. But sud
denly it was known that all tn
shares, barring hundred or Sc
wero locked up. Then came II star
ling rumor, as the stock went Il
twenty, thirty, forty, anything yo