The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23
THE SLUMP IN LIE ROIS"


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champagne glass, take my advice and go
bull of lie Rois."
The girl laughed. and muttered something
about not having a red cent to risk; after
which the conversation drifted into other
channels. Possibly the exigencies OF the
stock exchange render the votaries of that
institution very prompt In forming decls-
ions. Be this it may. when Madge Hey
wood had gone home that night, Paul Ed
monds realized that he had already fallen
tolerably i'm love with her. And, indeed,
as he lesurely undressed himself he re-
fected that. after ALL his vocation of max
| ing prices in Kaffirs and Westraians was
rather a prosaic business at best: and that
a tinge of sentimental romance would very
pleasantly leaven a life which so far had
sought for no horizon much beyond the pre-
cincts of the House and the foggy atmos-
phere of Throgmorton street. 1t was an
| ominous sign that this young jobber had at
! length lighted upon subject which really
| neld him serious.
| The recor's daughter, on her part, found
Paul Edmonds very prominent figure in
| deed amid her recollections of the Cart
wright's dinner party. He was good look
| ing and engaging i'm manner. He had paid
| her unremitting aud marked attention
| throughout the whole evening. and it
/ was in the beginning, so ii is now and
| ever shall be in the worlds history, when
it comes to a girls Interpretation of what
| a man means when he COMFORTS himself
! thus.
| IL matters little to The purport of this
story to narrate that Paul Edmonds and
A lad II
before the former returned TO London, save
| for the fact that he again laughingly re-
minded her of his advice to buy LIE Rois
| If she wanted TO make money, and added
that his address was Copthall court if she
| should resolve upon a ''futter." After
which he went back to the noisy Change,
| and she subsidized again into the uneventful
| tenor of life at the parsonage.
| About q fortnight later than this the
! Rev. Launcelot Haywood held FORTH,
| throughout the whole of the rather long
sitting at the breakfast table, upon what
| he termed his increasing poverty. He ex-
| planned how olfertories were steadily di-
minlshing; how pew rents were lower this
| year than during any he could recall; how
| 1.-THE was just about as bad as il could be.
| And coming to the issue of this diatribe, he
admonished his patient little wife that re-
trenchment was absolutely necessary: that
plain as their way of living now was they
/ must bow to hard fate and be even more
| frugal; and having talked them into a
mood Of abject detection he withdrew to
| his study, and costly filled presentation
meerschaum whilst he mumblingly re-
hearsed sermon upon the worthlessness
| of all worldly possessions.
Madge fingered disconsolately at the table
after all the rest of the family had with
drawn. She was very fond of her father,
| and she needed no better testimony than
his faded coat, rescued from the bleach Of
long wear by skillful applications of diluted
ink, to know how true was all he said as
to his increasing poverty. The morning
| paper lay where the rector had put it when
he began his dissertation upon miserable
| emoluments, and half absently the girl
| reached across and took it up.
1t was not the mere irony of fate that it
CHANGED to be open at the page containing
the city article which kindled a little CLEAN
| OF interest in her eyes. The natural ASSOC
| citation Of that headline with the Stock Ex-
| change instantly diverted her train of
| thought. She commenced to read, and the
| first edifying detail she grasped was the
| fact that there was a plethora of money,
| and the bank rate was reduced. She then
mastered the gratifying intelligence that the
tone was good, although business was
slack; that Trunks were harder. and
Japanese firm; that home rails, though dull
had I'm few cases gained the turn; that
industrials Of the better class were being
inquired for; and, finally, that LIE Rois
| were bought in well-informed quarters, and
had put on five-sixteenths during the day.
lie Rois~-Paul Edmond's recommends
tion." she unused, glaring at the words as
though they were a portrait of the jobber
himself. Put on fve-sixteenths. l don't
quite know what that means, but it is evil
dent they are higher / wonder now
She carefully folded the paper. planted
her elbows upon the table, let her chin
sink into the hollows of her white hands
and fell to celebrating with most calcu-
lating expression in her blue eyes. 1t was
a bold. daring conception to her, simple
minded parsons daughter, and she half
shrank from the idea, though impelled
too, by the notion that it might be instru-
mental in helping her father Then. as
though a sudden resolve which she wished
to act upon before the impulse of it was
passed. she rose. went swiftly across to a
little bureau, wrote a letter i'm agitated
haste. addressed it, stamped it and tripped
across to the pillar-box opposite, into
which she shot the mssive with half-de-
fiant, half-startled air.
Two days later-days in which Madge
herself had carefully intercepted the rheu-
matte country postman before he could
hobbie up to the hall door-there came a
letter addressed TO her in somewhat for
bidding blue envelope She opened this
with vague feeling of misgiving. 1t con-
tanned letter and an enclosure. She un-
folded the letter first and caught her
breath with little gasp. 1t was the usual
Stock Exchange jobber's contract note
headed with the name of Paul Edmonds.
of Copthall-court and announcing: 81 sell
you 100 lie Roi Mining, Limited shares at
6 7-s2, for October 18th account" And the
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