The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-26


And it's all, all my fault"
She sobbed pitifully.
Your fault? Nonsense! 1t was his
fault. He ought never to have married
you, the idiot"
He doesn't think he was an idiot
to have married me, father" she said,
smiling in spite of herself.
He doesn't Ell? That's considerable
Of him. Don't think he was an idiot
to marry you, don't he? If he did, I'd
-Id-oh. damn him anyway" he
broke off impotently.
His daughter was up in arms in
flash. You mustn't talk that way,
you mustn't. l won't hear it."
Loyal, still loyal" he thought, half
bitterly. WELL and what is it you
want me to do for him?" he. asked
aloud.
The expression of her face changed.
II don't know" she faltered.
You don't know? You don't know?
How the deuce am to, then?",
4 don't exactly understand it N.Y.
self, but yesterday afternoon Jim told
me-and oh, he looked so white as he
said it-that there was no further hope,
and he was as good as ruined
broke was what he called it. You see
some extra dividend had been declar-
ed. or something, and-it was for my
oehC' yOu hHONs lie ulQ II LOT my sake
he got caught on the wrong side of
the market, or so he said, and now,
now"
She started to weep silently. Devlin
sat staring straight before him with
unseeing eyes.
What was the name of the stock
he got caught in?" he asked, as a
matter of form. He knew well enough
already.
'Kenawha and Western. He said he
had been selling short, though l don't
know what he meant He's six feet
two, you know"
Got fooled on my canard-the
young ass" thought the banker, who
didn't even smile.
by the way, did your husband say
how heavily he was involved?"
HE did. But he made me prom
Use not to tell anyone. Still suppose
it wouldn't be wrong to tell you, would
it ?"
"Oh, no, tell me by all means. I
don't count"
She came over and whispered in his
ear. He jumped as if he had been
shot.
Cod" he cried, unable for the time
being to say more. Then as he began
more fully to realize the situation.
The fool! The damned unmitigated
fool! How by all that's holy could he
stagger under that" And he sank
back exhausted into his seat.
He felt his daughters hand on his
arm. Don't be hard on him." she
interceded. "Remember he did it for
my sake
Il am trying to remen1ber that" he
managed to answer from between set
teeth.
There was a silence broken only by
the babbling of the now unheeded
stock ticker The broker was the first
to speak.
Would your husband take money
from me?"
Mrs. Warrington shook her head
violently. He'd die first"
81 thought as much
He leaned back in his chair, closing
his eyes and running his fingers
through his sparse gray hair. The
veteran market manipulation was doing
as hard a bit of thinking as he had
ever done in his life before. Yet, for all
that, his first remark was hardly rele-
want to the matter in hand.
you've been very undutiful
| daughter, Julia"
Mrs. Merrington's lips frightened.
There was hopeless look in her
eyes
"All the same you are my daugh-
ter, and" He stopped short and
blew his nose viciously. Then he
coughed and went on again. "All the
same you are my daughter, and, con-
found it, if I'm not pretty fond of
you"
She gave a glad little cry and
charging down upon him, carried him
by storm where he sat, and put her
arms about him.
You'll help him, them"
Julia has he-has he made you hap
py?"
to help him?'
Devlin nodded silently.
She clasped her arms about him
closer. Her trembling lips were
pressed to his for the first time in
four years.
When Mrs. Harrington had taken
her departure the broker crossed the
room to the humming stock ticker
and studied the tape carefully. To his
mind there was but one thing to be
DONE He must smash the market.
And there was but one way to do
that. Taking the Board Room as
much by surprise as possible, he
must throw overheard his enormous
Kenawha holdings for whatever they
would bring. Only in this way could
he hammer down the price sufficiently
to enable his son-in-laW to cover his
short sales. That he would stand to
lose a million profit in the transac-
ton, he well knew. A million as
against his son-in-laws honor! After
all, was it worth it? And yet he had
promised to save him.
The thought next to his thwarted
ambition, of his desire to be remem-
bered always for his consummate
handling of the Kenawha dealA- The
street would never understand his sud
den change of front. 1t would think
he had lost his nerve. And yet he had
promised to save him.
Then, too, what would his own Of
Ace say? How would Weymouth
take it-Weymouth, whom it was true
he had admitted to the firm to serve
merely as a figurehead, and to save
his chief by seeing troublesome call
ers. What would they all think Of
their leader in whom they were wont
70 believe so implicitly? He had never
realized before how much his clerks
hero-worship had meant TO him. And
vet he had promised to save him.
He summoned his broker by private
wire. and gave. In person. the order
10 sell.
His instructions were terse ana 10
the point. Let the crowd know who's