Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-16
A FL.URRY IN WHEAT By HENRY MUNSING.
Copyright. 1903. by Daily Story Pub. co.,

w duced her father to take her
 to the metropolis she had no idea of
 making a great sensation in the busi-
 ness world. Indeed, she had no idea
 of making a sensation of any kind, her main thought being to see all the
 wonderful sights of the great city,
 go to as many theaters and operas
 as she could induce papa" to take her to, do as much shopping as he would pay for and return home with
 some new hats and gowns that would paralyze the feminine portion of the town with envy and the mas culine with admiration.
 If anybody had suggested that this petite and vivacious damsel of IS would break the most scientifically conceived wheat corner ever planned on the board, send the oldest and wisest of the bulls and bears scurry- ing for cover and make and unmake scores of fortunes, the suggestion would have been received with deri- sion-and by nobody more skepti- cally than the little lady herself. But this is just what happened and AO AopPCA4Co dCSR1JC OlAC 1dCU UIISbU Miss Dorothy had no more idea re- garding the wheat market or what transpired on the board of trade thanA her pet canary and could no more have grasped the idea signi- ficance of puts and calls than she could have translated ancient Arabic.
 Jerome Strang was a successful merchant and shrewd business man. With all his hard-headed busi- ness sense he dearly loved 8 specula- tion, and it was whispered among his business associates that he frequent ly took a flyer in grains or stocks and it was also whispered that he generally won.
 On. the occasion of his visit to the metropolis when Dorothy broke the wheat corner, truth to tell, he made the trip almost solely for the pur- pose of participating in that same corner, although he gave it out most solemnly in his family and to his business associates that he was mak- ing the trip to buy goods.
 On the second day after their ar rival he announced that a business associate to whom he had mentioned the fact that his daughter was with him, had invited them to attend the theater with him.
 ''Oh, how horrid,'' pouted Dorothy, disturbed by visions of thin-lipped old gentlemen with gray side-whis- kers who talk perenial1y of busi- ness conditions, the tariff and the money market, or of fat-faced, bald headed salesmen with huge mustaches and much jewelry, who would tell funny stories and patronize her.
 ''I think you will like him. replied her father. He's young and hand some and very well-inforIned and entertaining gentleman. At any rate it is exceedingly courteous in him to invite us and we must show him that we appreciate it.''
 Now. if Herbert Hollister had not put himself out, much against his inclination, to do a courteous act to customer who had become a pow erful factor in the great wheat deal he was engineering, and who prom ised to be most valuable ally in the future deals, he never would have met Miss Dorothy, his wheat deal would not have been smashed to smithereens-and several other things would not have happened which did happen.
 Hollister was one of the coming men on the board. Indeed he had already ''come" and although we'll i'm side the thirties had engineered some very clever deals of minor sort in which he had trimmed up the oldest and wisest of the traders and had besides been a considerable factor in some of the big deals of the past few years. His quick eye, ready judgment and lightning execution had won the respect and admiration of the street" and it was freely predicted that he would become a mu1ti-millionaire. Already he had ac- quired very substantial fortune.
 With great affairs in his head it is small wonder that he groaned in- wardly at the prospect of an entire evening with a provincial maiden, probably of doubtful beauty and charms and equipped beyond doubt to converse only upon the most com monplace affairs. An evening alone with the father would have promised substantial results, as Hollister had discovered the sound sense and far seeing vision of Jerome Strang.
 With these uncomp1imentary views of each other and with mutual ap- prehensions of boredom did Hollis ter and Dorothy meet. The meeting was a shock to both. Hollister be- held the most graceful and piquant vision he had ever beheld-a iaunty little piece of femininity with all the freshness of girlhood, and country girlhood at that, and at the same time all the budding promise of glorious womanhood; a figure beyond criticism, surmounted by a face as finely chise1ed as that of Greek goddess. But the eyes were what riv- eted his attention-the eyes and the mouth: Her eyes were as black as night and their depths were unfath- omed, while the lips were cupid's own-and over all and through all was that sauciness or rather vitality