The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-05-10

et12'p ~aAftk12 ~Ak-tt+fasstA ~ lily coming and
corral every share q the stock Of that
company that could get b8ld Of the
minute it was put On the market, before
people found ont what it was worth and
while it was cheap
..By gracionsl Goiabng, You rot a
great headr'
That conversation between tha old
man and his confidential adviser was
still further elaborated when they re-
turned to the porch, and was overheard
by jacob, who not being able to under
stand it by the light Of his own unaided
Intelligence, sought out George Stirling
and wanted to know what he could
make out Of it.
At first it simply seemed to the I'M
happy lover to substantiate his view Of
Mr.. Kropff's unbalanced condition of
mind, but upon talking it over with
Lieschen with whom he of course man.
aged to have interviews despite the old
man's prohibition), he saw something
more in it, She hud learned from her
mother all about the prospective sale of
the property to the New Workers., and
what Fran Anna had OWNED they were
going to do with it. 1t now looked as If
he contemplated investigating in their
mineral water and hotel scheme-which
again seemed to be a-worlIing around
toward the lunacy hypothesis.
George, who was a young fellow pos
sessing good deal of plain, practical
sense, made up his mind that it would
be well for him to take run down to
New York and learn, if he could, awho
those chaps We're and just what they
were up to" All the clew he had to
them was the card they had given to
Mr.. Kropff, and which he had left upon
the parlor mantel, where Lieschen found
it. But that, he felt assured, would be
quite enough. It represented them as
brokers', and, as he had q cousin In
Hsll street, he would soon learn il that
was their business, and all about them.
That he should have interested himself
in his neighbours affairs to such an ex-
tent, and with such unforeseen and i'm
portant results as accrued, was simply
another illustration of the proyerbial
tendency of tall oaks to grow from little
acorns. But for the baleful CLEAN re-
fracted from the golden bubble Of Herr
KropH's fancy athwart the course of his
true love he would have been, and con
Enued to be, as blissfully unconscious of
everything but his love as lovers Gus
tomarily are.
He was away in New York two days,
and on the evening of his return home
made haste to solicit an interview with
his intended father-in-law. Herr Kropf
received him, bat unwillingly and with
a degree of formality that indicated his
hostile feeling. The old man had been
down to Dover nearly all that day on
mysterious business; was very tired; had
already announced that he proposed re-
firing early, as he was going to New
York by the first train in the morning,
and was SO preoccupied with his affairs
that he almost maddened ms wife by his
seeming deafness when she spoke, and
certain dumbness when she wanted him
TO speak He consented to see George
Ia the parlor, nevertheless.
But it viii not do any good, Mr.. Stir
ing" be said, as the young man entered.
II said that business With Lieschen is
broked of, unit it is broled off, mt it
gill do no good to talk about it."
All right, y assented George cheerily.
'sLet that go--fer the present anyway.
1t is not what | wanted to sea You about.
rye been down to New York looking up
those chaps, Cute and Sharp
sszor'
"And think they are a pair Of swim
dlers. =
sol"
They've got nine by twelve Office
on the eighth floor of building, with
their names on a tinssign; but they 'renot
real brokers, and except when they
make a raise by slinning somebody /
doubt if they could raise money to pay
the Incorporation fees for getting up a
new company, to say nothing of working
capital"
'sDonnerwetteri Hi, Goldbug, come
here"
The honest miner appeared from the
porch where he had been smoking his
pipe, and at Mr.. Kropff's request
George repeated the discoveries he had
rnsde. Mr.. Cnpland was manifestly
surprised and somewhat Disconnected.
-.Ain't you just leetle out?" he
oueried doubtfully. 1t appears to me
like I'd heard they were mighty rich
men. And you know you can't assay q
mans business from his Office show no
more'n you can rock from lookin' at
it,
THAT may be true as general propo-
sition.n agreed George, "but I've talked
to reliable men who have had Cute and
Sharp. as you say, 'assayed' for years
mast There is certainly enough to JUS
tify suspicion, and in view Of what we
now know would, as friend, advise
Mr.. Kropff to be very careful what deal
ings he has with them.
..Potztansendf' exclaimed the old man
excitedly. ssJust today go draw all
my money from the bank out unit bor-
row some more on my notes, unit tomor-
row would 90 down by New York with
six thousand dollars to buy all vat /
gould get of that shtock."
Don't you do anything Of the sort,
sir" urged George. "Stay where you
are"
But shall only have the two thou
sand shares they will give me for my
farlnlr
vohol They were going to pay you in
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