News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-23

the Great Cumberland mine for ii
next account. He mentions vol
name as a reference. Do you kno
anything about him?"
knew all about the letter. as
was one | had written myself an
posted from Ethan.
"Oh! yes" L said, "thats all righ
He is friend of my uncle's. He mel
toned the other evening that |
wanted to dealin Great Cumberland
and | advised him to do busines
through us"
Well you had better see to it, a
l have to attend to two meeting
this morning"
During the day | managed to dis
pose of 1000 shares at prices rang
ing from sos los. per share, and ha
the contract notes made and poste,
to w. Duncan, ESQ, Castle hote
Eltham, the proprietor of which
knew very well, and with whom Iha
arranged to have any letters so ad
dressed forwarded to myself. Oi
Wednesday, the %, 1 received tele
gram from George, with the twc
words Son Friday" Words canno
express how relieved 1 felt. 1 knew
George would do nothing by halves
and felt almost sure of success.
That afternoon Ileft the office earl,
and went down to Ethan and dineC
at the Castle hotel. After dinner
wrote a letter, which | addressed tt
my firm, Messrs. Pritchard & Co.
and arranged with the landlord tc
have it posted on the morrow, IL
order tC be delivered in the city first
post on Friday morning.
On Friday | seized the paper and
glanced hurridly down the money
article. Yes! it was there sure
enough.
We received a communication last
evening to the effect that the Yaranga
River district in South Africa was
Hooded and that great damage had
been done to the Great Diamond
Company's property. The mine was
flooded and it was feared 100 work
men were drowned. The loss to the
Company was believed to be ire
This L knew was bound to make
the shares fall. You may be sure
felt in strange state of excitement,
but l tried to look as unconcerned
as possible when | arrived at the
Dostoffice.
About 10:30 Mr.. Pritchard came
20 me with letter.
Here is another letter from Mr..
Duncan asking us to buy in the / 900
treat Cumberlands for him. l sup
pose he is all right, but it looks very
much like a speculation. / see there
S bad report of the mine in the pa
Der this morning, so he will get them
heap. One would think he knew
something about the telegram. How
,ver, that has nothing to do with u.s.
Don't be in too great a hurry to
Ouy; the price is sure to drop"
On my way to the Stock exchange
called at the Office of the Great
Cumberland Company and asked if
they knew anything about the tele-
gram published that morning. They
said they had received the same in
but thought there wai
some mistake. They were taking
steps to have it confirmed.
When / arrived at the exchange ]
vent straight to the mining market,
and, as l expected, found it in state
Of the widest excitement. Every one
vas asking questions about the Great
Jumberlands. All the dealers were
sellers. "Great Cumberlands!" " L
,ell 100 at %; | sell 200 at 22h.
ANY buyers?" and such like.
| waited and watched closely. The
price went down every minute, until
heard a man offer 300 at
IL. l bought them. l noticed sew
raj dealers eyed me suspiciously,
md one asked me if l knew anything.
answered, "No, but we have an
,rder from a client to buy" Pres
,ntly dealer offered a parcel of 500
1T 19h. / took them at once. The
)ther 200 | had no difficulty in OBJ
aiming in small lots at SIC to SO
Los. | went back to the Office and
.eported to Mr.. Pritchard that Great
had dropped five or six
points, and told him l had bought
900 shares for Mr.. Duncan at an
average price of about 20.
Ihad thus gained my end. On set
ling day it would only be necessary
20 pass on the names from the firms
had brought from, and post a check
or the difference to Mr.. Duncan,
which of course was the same as post
ng it to myself.
The next morning a telegram was
published by the Company notifying
that the information published the
lay before was exaggerated. The
Yaranga district was flooded, hut
their property had not been touched.
On the strength of this the shares in
4 few days regained their former quo
5ation.
| wrote to George, told him of my
success and thanked him for what
he had done.
On the first of April called on Mr..
Saymour. He seemed rather sur
Drised to see me, but was very polite.
"Mr. Seymour" / said, "when |
asked you for your daughters hand
a month ago you would only give
your sanction on condition that by
to-day was worth at least So, 900.
[ have called to inform you that the
amount of my balance at my bank
er's is $5,7S5. l therefore presume
there will now be no objection to our
engagement"
"Well, Mr.. Bartley," he said, "I
am surprised, but also pleased, be-
cause as | said last month, L have
no personal objection to you as a
son-in-law. will write at once and
fetch Nellie back. But how did you
manage to make So, 900 in month
"Well, you know, sir, on the Stock
exchange it is very easy to make OF
lose $4,000"
He laughed and said:
"You have been lucky this time
but take my advice and don't go il
for 'plunging.'"
'Don't mean to, Mr.. Seymour, but
desperate cases require desperate
means"
81 expect you thought me very
mercenary, Harold, but now mus
tell why made that stipulation. Peo
pie suppose that L am very wealthy
but lately l have lost heavily
and am now in want of a few thous
and for week or two and haven't
any available security to offer. VIII
you lend me your $4,000 for {
month? You shall have it back will
interest, and when you marry | will
keep my promise and settle $10,00(
on Nellie"
''You are quite welcome to tn,
money!" | said. "All want is Nellie.
We were engaged six months, anC
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