Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-24

time I landed 1t Ostend aud took tne
train for Amsterdam. There repeated
the Paris operation, securing slO'oVolh
genuine bills. returned to London hiiu
as before left them for acceptance Ihen
my companion manufactured n lou VI
limitations and pnt them away WIN
those previously manufactured to DO M
ready when tho day came to use them'
The genuine bills were then discounted
All tho details of events leading
through the long summer and autumn
days Of 1879 up to tho hour when tho
golden shower began to fall on US are OF
intense. even dramatic, interest VIII
not. however, lengthen tho narrative by
giving hero any further account OF thom'
hut will merely rotate the story OF tho
last five days before the actual presenta-
ton of our home browod acceptanccs
Tho bank had been discounting Tor
weeks comparatively largo sums for mo
OF tho genuine article, and our ifnita-
tion was close copy. Many thousand
mounds Of the genuine article discounted
for mo had maturod and Ind boon paid,
and more thousands were still in tho
vaults awaiting maturity and would fan
due while our home manufactured bills
would DO laid away In the vaults, there
to remain for four or five months until
due. OF course n full month or two
months before that wo could pack on
baggage and bo ON tho other side OF the
world.
But, ~ tho sequel will show, tho
reality took ON different complexion
from the idenl
My credit ut the bank was solid MS q
rock. That means l had gone through
the rcd tapo routine. 1t only behooyed
us to use oircumspoction enough TO ayoid
making mistakes in our papers, and
fortune was ours. / knew everything
was all right, but George. being u thor
ough business man himself, could not
comprehend that II could be quito right,
and he insisted upon one supreme test.
ANY single bill Of exchange is seldom
drawn for more than 81 600, rarely for
e, 900, and one Of GO, 900 IL almost un-
heard Of But George had made up his
mind that as u test, and to make an inn
preston upon the bank manager,
should 20 10 Paris and get Il bill on Lon
don from Rothschilds drawn to the or
| der of H. A. Warren direct Could this
be done IL would of course make 1t APP
pear that had intimate rotations with
tho Rothschilds, and ns II minor consid.
grafton wo could uso the Rothsohild9' ac'
ceptnnco--a pretty ncrvy thing 20 do, o.
Sir Anthony do Rothschild the head Of
tho London house, whose namo we pro
posed to offer, was director of the
Bank Of England and would have tc
pass his own paper for discount-thai
is, paper bearing his namo, manufao
tured by ourselves.
We tried 10 talk George out of THU
notion, which Mao aud [ regarded IA
freak unnecessary in tho first place ant
impossible ANYHOW. But no was persist
ont, and | had to start out and try. Al
Calais | took my place in what tn,
French call cuupo-that is. the ono
compnrtment ON a car, which, by pay
lug 10 francs extra, Won can occup,
alone. had fallen into u sound slool
before the trim started and was nrousot
from it to find myself hurled about In,
compartment much a. stout boy woul,
shake n mouse in cage aud quito a
helpless.
Onr train was Off tho track. Nv car
riago was near tho engine, and the mo
mentum of the long train forced the en-
IN tho rear Of mine up on end, and