The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23

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Made hastily thrust this discriminating
and exDensive-looking document into her
| pocket and then read the letter.
Dear Miss Haywood il ran, in very un-
/ tidy writing-"Of course, 1 have a very
| lively recollection of you. and of the de-
/ lightful evening we spent at the Cart
wright's. l am so sorry to learn that the
worldly affairs of your good father are not
so prosperous as they might be. Yes, GER
/ tainly. my faith In the merits and posi-
1 bilities of Lee Roi shares remains una
bated. IL is true the market in this descrip-
| ton is being manipulated just now by
very cute and wealthy clique, but with all
! their ingenuity they cannot alter intrin-
| sic value and the sharp fluctuations of the
past week simply prove that their banging
tactics are being met by determined buying.
! | take your letter TO be really instructions
| to me. and acting upon these | have pur-
| chased one hundred lie Rois for you, per
accompanying contract note, for settlement
| at the mid-October account I trust you will
find this quite i'm order. and shall feel
obliged if you will let me have cheque for
the amount by settling day, the 18th inst
With kind regards.-Yours sincerely, PAUL
EDMONDS."
Could the young jobber have forseen the
! dire CONSERVATION which his mild and
somewhat thoughtless little joke would
cause to the girl he admired more than any
| other in this world, he would most as
suredly have cursed himself for his folly
in writing such missive. To Madge that
| little contract note, viewed i'm the light cast
upon it by the accompanying letter. APP
| pealed like an memorable liability. She had
dim notion of being in debt to the Stock
| Exchange for G626 SIS Cd. which amount
| had to be paid within twelve days, and a
veritable nightmare of the possible conse-
quences of default ioated before her men,
| tai vision. The result of this panic was that
| Madge very soon posted another letter in
the pillar-box opposite.
Paul Edmonds laughed, and there vas
distinct heartlessness i'm his glee. what a
dear little simpleton she is" he solilo-
pulsed as he read through the plaintive
epistle. lis afraid her thoughtless conduct
will have got her into a terrible position,
is she? Has no money herself and wishes
me to understand that papa finds it Bit
ter struggle to make ends meet and keep
up appearances. Wants me to tell her. a
friend, what will happen, she cannot
possibly send me cheque. Never even had
a banking account! Would like to know, in
fact, whether she must have these wretched
LIE Roi shares at ALP
He stroked his chin with the complacent
air of man who is playing game the re-
suits of which please him.
II must keep this up little he NUT
tered, and drawing sheet of paper to-
wards him he wrote as follows:
Dear Miss Heywood.-Yo letter has
caused me some surprise. and a trife of
embarrassment. l find, on again referring
to yours of the I'd inst. that you prac-
tically instruct me to buy LIE Rois on your
account, If l think there is money to be
made by doing In Stock Exchange
usage 1t is held to be rather serious mat
ter for a person to buy shares without
i possessing the means to pay for them;
but need hardly say that / am quite con-
WINGED you acted i'm ignorance of this fact
Pray do not worry your parents about this
matter, if you have not already done So
as should be very sorry for their troubles
| TO be added to. The position is rather an
awkward one, 1 have definitely bought
| the stock on your account; and since you
tell me you cannot take it up, i must ar
range to carry 1t over for you, and let the
differences run for few accounts whilst
we watch how the market is going.-Yours
sincerely, PAUL EDMONDS''
He fiattered himself that the girl would
regard him as model of. self-sacrifice and
philanthropy upon the strength of this
| letter, quite oblivious to the fact that his
Stock Exchange vernacular rendered about
half of it absolutely unintelligible to her
The purport of the letter, however, she
was quite able to master; and Paul Ed
| monds received a gush of thanks, over
flowing four pages of violet notepaper
which gave him really almost as much sat
isfaction by the time he had come to the
end of it as IL he had indeed done some
thing to merit all this gratitude.
Madge felt relieved. but by no means hap.
!. | by in her mind. She was troubled by a
haunting sense of merely having put off the
evil hour. The young jobber, on his part
was we'll gratified by the idea of having
established a very plausible excuse fol
periodically writing to the pretty girl. with
the further edifying feeling that he was
more than likely to make a very neat profit
, for her i'm the end by this little deal i'm lie
Ros.
But the unexpected has a knack of hap
| pening. even to Stock Exchange men in
l
| Ting day-arrived. and Le Rois were exact
ly point lower than the price at which
| Paul Edmonds had bought them fol-
| Madge. The jobber lacked not for money;
a difference of 100 pounds was a matter toe
| trifing for him to give a second thought
to, and to save himself the least degree OF
trouble he paid for the shares and took
them up. At the same time he resolved to
have his quid pro quo. and this took the
| form of letter TO the poor rectors daugh-
ter enclosing her carry-over statement
and explaining that she now owed him
clos 15s. for differences and contango and
| that although it was customary to pay
| these charges punctually on settling day
| he would not, i'm her case press for a set.
| tlement save at her perfect convenience
Madge could eat no breakfast after the
receipt of this epistle. mumbling some
thing about headache and loss of appe-
tite Her difficulties seemed to be increas-
ing. for she took it for granted that the
CLOS 15s. was merely an addition to her