The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-03

some calculation. She finally askedA
WHO are you running against? VINO
is at the head Of the corner a.
"Oh. that. said Madax, none OF -
knows The business is done thr0u y
the Toxic and Janboree bank, outs -
don't know who is behind it.
Now, doesn't it strike you that tnT
first thing for you to do is to fin6 out
whom you are butting against IL
would have been my first work to find
out who was against me"
But" said her husband, Il didn
know there was anybody on the other
side Of the market"
Very WELL she said. Now listen
to me You have got f25,0OO in this,
and if you can get all the money of
Sir Caesar and his friends to help you,
l viii guarantee that you viii come
out with double-that is, ESQ, 600"
DO you mean it," cried her hus-
band, eagerly.
Il mean it, said his wife soIemnly.
And may. tell Sir Caesar -so7S nse
asked
NO; whatever information I wish Dir
Caesar to have 1 will give him myself.
You will tell him that you have had
private information. and are not al
lowed to mention the dealers name"
very. good" said Madax. with in
/ tense relief
DO not let It get out" continued his
y
ke6' ana as soon as the price gets up.
sell out Now I must 90. / will drop
you down at your office"
Mr.. Madax telegrapheds Sir Caesar
Camp and others and told them that
he had private information about the
market, and they all went in He ar
ranged with them that the sale would
be made at once after the rise
Next day wheat sprang up few
points. Madax could have sold out.
out saw that he would not double his
money. But after the slight rise. down
went wheat again. Madax's f25. 900
were swept out Of sight. and SO was
tne million that his friends had put in.
All the confidence that Madax had put
IN ms wife has now departed. so he
merely telegraphed to her that he was
ruined, and went home a broken man.
ABOUT O'Clock that night a carria "a
drove up. and his wife let herself intaS
the house with her latch-key. When,
she entered the room her husband
never looked up. but she patted him
gleefully on the back
Come, come, my poor infant Cheer
up!' she said
Madaxs only answer was a groan
of anguish
And so your little $4,000 has gone
with the rest2" she said.
You told me I would double my
money. he said, and 1 believed Won.
of course you believed me, and hsr-
it is" she said. taking a check frdm
her purse. There's my check for tS0.-
600. so you have doubled your n1oulsy.'.
What do you mean by thar Said
her husband. looking up.
Mean? You poor child I mean
that I am the head of the corner. 1t
doesn't matter now who knows it,
Husbands are Of some use after all
Now. my boy. go down to Monte Carlo
am very much obliged to you for the
million you threw in my way, and con-
slider it cheap at $4,000 1 am sorry
that I can't stay with you, Lut 1 am
on for a dinner IN the city. I I'M sorry
l can't see the children. Give hen.
my love, and ell them 1 will run down
in few days-tIat is, unless you take
/ them with you 10 None Carlo. Take
care. of yourself. and your check.
may see you at Efonce Carlo
And with tina; she left the room. and
was waving goodbye from the carrja Sc
window, as the da I'D man store yatSh-
ing her through the open ID )r.-.PAe
Idler.
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