The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-05

got some Drains. III you was TO go In now IL
would keep you straight and busy, and take
you out of this pin-head class that only
spends their pas money"
You're all right, Uncle Peter. / certainly
set me straight You founded the fortune.
pa trebled ii, and now I'll get TO work and
roll it up like big SNOWFALL
That's the talk. Get into the hundred mil
lion class. and show these wise folks you
got something in you besides hot air, like
the sayin' is Then they won't always be
askln who your pa was-theyll be wantin
to know who you are, by Cripes, Then you
can have the biggest steam yacht afioat,
two or three of EN-. and the best house in
New York, and palaces over in England;
and Pshll be able to hold up her head in
company over there. You can finance that
proposition right up TO the mines"
BY Jove. but you're right. You're Won
der, Uncle Peter. And that reminds me-
He stopped in his walk.
Il gave IL hardly any thought at the time.
but now 1T looks bigger than a mountain. 1
know just the thing to start in on system
atically. Now, don't breathe a word of
this, but there's big deal on in CONSOLE
queer way the other night. There's brok-
er I've known down town-fellow by the
name OF Repin. Met him last summer He
does most OF Sheplers business; he's sup
posed to be closer TO Shepler and know
more about the inside of his deals than any
man in the street. Well / ran across Relpin
down In the cafe the other night and he
three-button souses. Nothing would do but
should dine with him, so | did. 1t was the
night you and the folks went to the opera
with the Oldakers. Relpin was full of lovely
talk and dark hints about rise In copper
stock. and another rise in Western Trolley.
and bigger rise than either of them in
Union Cordage How that fellow can do
Sheplers business and drink the stuff that
makes you talk don't Anyway he said
and you can bet what he says goes-that
worlds supply of copper inside of three
months. and the stock is bound TO kite, and
so are these other two stocks; Shepler's
back of all three. The insiders buying
up now, slowly and cautiously, so as not 10
start any boom prematurely. Consolidated
Is ITO now, and it'll be up to $50 by April at
the latest. The others may go beyond that.
l wasn't looking for the game at the time,
so L didn't give it any thought. but now,
you see, there's our chance. Wen plunge
in those three lines before they start TO rise,
and be in on the ground floor
Now don't you be rash, That Shepler's
old enough to suck eggs and hide the shells.
heard man say the other day copper was
none too good at no.
Exactly. You can hear anything you're
looking to hear, down there. But L tell you
this was straight. Don't you suppose Shop
Ter knows what he is about?-theres boy
that won't be peddling shoelaces and gum
drops off one of those neat little BOSOM
trays-not for eighty-tive or ninety thousand
years yet-and Replin, even il he was
drunk, knows Shepler's deals like you know
Skipiap. They'll bear the stocks all they
can while they're buying up: wouldn't be
was reduced. That would send her down a
few points. and throw more stock on the
market Meantime they're quietly workin'
to get control of the European mines-and
as to Western Trolley and Union Cordage-
say, Relpin actually got TO crying-theyre
so good-he had one OF those loving ones,
the kind where you want TO be good to
every one in the world. I'm surprised he
didn't get into a sandwich sign and patrol
Broadway, giving those tips TO everybody"
Course, were on a proposition now that
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certainly do take right hold at once-that
was your pas way, too. Daniel j. could look
farther ahead in a minute than most men
could In a year. L got to trust you wholly
in these matters, and know can do it, too.
got confidence In You, no matter what 9TH
er people say. They don't know you like L
do. And if there's any other things you know
about fur sure"
We'll. there's Burman. He's plunging in
corn now. His father has staked him, and
he swears he can't lose. He was after me to
put aside million. OF course if he does win
out 1t would be big money
well, son, / can't advise you none-ex-
cept l know you have got head on you,
no matter how people talk. You know about
| this end of the game, and I'll have TO be led
entirely by you. If you think Burman's got
a good proposition. why. there amt any
thing like gettin action all along the lay
| out, from ace down to seven-spot and back
| TO the king card"
That's the talk. I'll see Relpin to-day or
| Tomorrow. I'll bet he tries to hedge on what
| he said. But 1 got him too straight-let a
| drunken man alone for telling the truth
| when he's got it in him. Wen start in buy
| ing at once"
ut does sound good, 1 must say you take
hold of 1T considerable like Danl j. would
| own. do want to see you takin' your place
| where you belong. This life of idieness Won
| been leadin'-one continual patlatch the
| whole, time-it want dom You a bit of
| good"
wen get action. don't you worry. Now
| let's have lunch down stairs, and then go
| for a drive. It's too fine a day to STAY in
| I'll order the cart around and show you that
blue-ribbon cob bought at the horse show.
| 1 just want you TO see his action. He's a
LII and he can go to his speed in ten lengths
any time.
| In the afternoon they fell into the process
sion OF carriages streaming toward the park
The day was pleasantly sharp the clear
with the spirit of the occasion. alertIy
active. from his rubber-shod, vanished
hoofs to the tips of his sensitive ears.
| ways seems TO me just like tidy little par
| have
| spokes. and listened absentIy to the rhyth-
mic ''click-clump' of trotting horses with
It's accompanying Jingle of silver harness
| trappings.
These people must have lots of morey."
he observed. But you'll go in and Guido 'em
| ALL"
That's what. Uncle Peter"
| Toward the upper end of the East drive
| they passed a victoria in which were Miss
/ Milbrey and her mother with Rulon Shep-
| Ter. The men raised their hats. Miss Milbrey
flashed the blue of her eyes to them and
| pointed down her chin In the least bit of a
/ bow. Mrs. Milbrey stared.
| want that Shepler?"
| Yes. Shepler and the Mlbreys That
woman certainly has the haughtiest lorg-
| non ever built
She didn't speak to u.s. Is her eyes bad?"
| None of them has spoken TO me but the girl
| shes engaged TO Shepler.'
| Shes right nice lookin' little lady
| thought you was kind of taken there
| She would have married me for my roll
got far enough along to tell that But that
was before Shepler proposed. I'd give long
| odds she wouldn't consider me now
haven't enough for her with him in the
| game"
We'll, you go in and make her wish she
| waited for you"
III do that; I'll make Shepler look like
| a well-to-dO business man from Pontiac
| Michigan
lis that brother of hers you told me about
| still maxim UP To that party?''
| Cant say. i suppose he'll be a little more
| fastidious, as the brother-in-law of Sheplcr
| In fact / heard that the family had shut
down on any talk of his marrying her.
| Still, she ought To be able to do well here
| Any man that would marry a woman fur
| money wouldn't object to her. One of these
fortune-hunting Englishmen, now, would
| snap her up
She hasn't quite enough for that. Two
| millions isn't so much here, you know and
| she must have spent lot OF hers / hear
| she has very expensive suite back there at
| the Arlingham. and lives high. 1 did hear