Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-07

Yes, bot | had something TO pro
pose, You spoke OF taking Siv Caesar
!. cam TO ulnner. Now, l don't know
what you want to get him in on, but
] do know that l could get him on my
side of the wheat deal, and he would
bring in C,uers. Then we might be
able to stop the break in the market =
Mrs. MadaX's eyes sparkled as she
looked down at her husband.
Can you really do all that?" she
asked almost breathlessly.
Yes, if l had any assurance that
we would get out with a little profit.
1t seems to me that all their influence
thrown in OF our side of the market
would give US rise enough to get out
of the hole at least"
oh" said his wife, that is another
matter. Yes" she added after think
ing a moment, with knitted brows.
that's a first rate idea. How much
do you think it would all total up to-
about a Million" said Madax,
pleased to see that he was getting
more attention than censure.
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herself than to him. Are you certain
you could get all that amount on your
side of the market?'
quite certain"
Mrs. MadaN, as she Continued her
pacing up and down, seemed to be
making some mental calculations.
She finally said:
"Whom are you running against?
Who is at the head of the corner?'
"Oh, that" said MadaX, none of us
knows. The business is done through
the Tokyo and Jamboree bank, but we
don't know who is behind it."
Now, doesn't it strike you that the
first thing for you to do is to find out
whom you are butting against? If
its a stone wall the sooner you know
it the better, 50 that you can stop be-
fore your head gets hurt. If it's a
hedge you might manage to get
through. 1t would have been my first
work to find out who was against me-"
But" said her husband, don't l
tell you that didn't know there was
anybody on the other side of the
market?"
oh" said his wife impatiently, you
can always count ON somebody being
on the other side of the market. SO
you can't find out who it is?''
I'VE can't" said her husband.
every WELL" she said. "Now listen
to me. You have got E25, 900 in this,
and if you can get all the money of Sir
Caesar and his friends to help you |
will guarantee that you will come out
with dcuble-that is, $4,000"
DO you mean it?" cried her husband
eagerly.
Il mean it," said his wife solamnly.
"And may I tell Sir Caesar that YOU
said so?' he asked.
"No. Whatever information ! wish
Sir Caesar to have I will give him
! myself. You will tell him that you
have had to mention the dealers
name"
every good said Madax. with an
intense relief III his face.
"DO not let it go out" continued his
wife. use all your force and SEE if
you a raise the market. and as 500
as the price goes up sell out at once.
Have all your plans made for selling
out. Fr0mptnass is the thing in these
matters Now | must go. | will drop
you down at your office"
Mr.. MadaX knew what his wife said
about the markets generally came
true, so he. in great jubilatiOn. tele-
graphed Sir Caesar Camp and others
to meet him at his office, and they
did so. He told him that he had priv
ate information about the market, and
after some slight hesitation they all
went in. He arranged with them that
the sale would be made at once after
the rise.
! Next day it was announced that a
million of money was put against the
corner, and wheat sprang up a few
points, but moi as much as they eX-
pected it would. MadaX could have
sold out without loss, but saw that he
would not double his money, for the
corner vas stronger than any of them
had thought, but after the slight rise
down went the price Of wheat again.
The very bottom seemed to have
dropped out of the market. Madax's
f25,OOO was swept out of sight, and so
was the million that his deluded
friends had put in with him. All con-
tidence that Madax haG put in his wife
had now departed, so he merely teIe-
graphed her that he was ruined and
went home a broken man.
About s o'clock that night a car
riage drove up to the door, and Is
wife sprang out and let herself into
the house with her latchkey. When
she entered the room her husband
never looked up, but she crossed to
| where he sat and patted him gIeefully
o n the back.
"Come, come, my poor infant. Cheer
up?' she said.
Madax's only answer was a groan
of anguish.
"And so your little E25,OOO has gone
with the rest?" she said.
You told NE that | would double
my money" he said, "and / believed
you"
"Of our you believed me, and
here it is" she said, taking a check
from her purse. '"There's my check for
100000, so you have doubled your
money"
What do you mean by that?" said
her husband, looking up.
Mean? You poor child! I mean
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