The Cairo bulletin., 1904-01-23

+ iicity on every highway of France
/ your decree that gold and silver are
not SO good as your hank notes: thai
go one must have gold or silver: thai
no one must send his cold and silver
out Of France. bat that all must bring
IL 20 the King and take for it in eX-
change these notes Of yours. Try that
Il ought g. succeed. ought it not. your
grace Ills b1nterins toue sank In.
10 one of hall plausibiliy,
Why surely That would be the
solution
"0h. think yoa SOP Your grace Is
wondroua keen as 4 tlnaneer, Now
take The counsel of Dubois. OF D'Arsen-
son my very good friends. This is
What they wiil counsel you to do. Ana
| viii counsel vou al the same time 10
avail Yourself OF heir advice. Tell au
France y brins i'll It's sold. 10 enable
yoa 10 nat something essential under
The vaiHa ot all This paper money which
yoa have been sending olt So lavishly.
So unth nkinaly. So without stint or
measure
Yes Aad then :"
Why then, your grace. said Law
then Wa sAan see what we shall seo,f
: %rhe regent a4ain ehoked with anger
hbW continued "Go on. Smooth down
the back 81 this animal Continue to
rednee .hcse taxes. The specie Of the
realm Of France, as / am banker
anough to knoH, Is not more than
i.Sin00eQ0u lUrcs, allowing IS livres
% The mare Yet long before this youl
grace has Gro ded The Issue OF our
actions untA there are out not less than
. 100000 He0 liyres in the stock ot
our company Your Brothers Paris.
Eoar n'Argenson ye0r Dubois will tell
you how yo can ma! the people Of
France continue 10 believe that twice
two is NOT four that twice Is is not
rs!
"3ut this they are doing. broke in
the resent. with ray 81 hope in his
face This they are doing We have
provided tor that In the council not
an hour ago the Abbe Dubois and
Monsieur d. Argensan decided that the
time had come to make some fxel
proportion between the specie ana
these notes WE have to-day framed
an edict which the parliament Will
register stating thar the interests Of
the subjects ot the King require thar
the price OF these bank notes Should
be lessened SO that there may he some
sort Of accommodation between them
and the coin Of the realm We have
ordered that the shares shall, within
80 days drop to 1900 livres. in another
I'D days to 7.e00 liyres. and so on. at
500 liyres q month until a last they
shall have a value of one-half what
they we're to-day Then, tell me, my
wise Monsieur L as, would not the Issue
Of our notes aud the total Of our specie
be equal. one with the other? The
only wrong thing IL this insulting pre-
sumption Of these people, who have
sold actions al a price lower than we
have decreed
Law smiled as he replied You say
exeellenfly well, my master. These
plans surely show that you and your
able counselors have studied aseply
The questions Of finance! | have told
you whai would happen to-day with
cut any decree Of he king. Now go.
T-777T-57 57777 77T~77 a1sn ,+f,+r,. aaa-ac+ ",
1il! find that the people are much
more eager for values which are golne
~ than values which are going down
Start your shares down hili and ycu
WIN see all France scramble for such
coin, s3ch plate. such jewels AZ MAJ
be within the ability Of France to lay
hes hands upon. Tell me. your grace
did Monsieur dArecnson advise yol
this morning as to The total Issue Of
The actions Of this company
Surely be did. and here have Il in
memorandum, for ! was TO have taken
it up With yourself" replied The re-
GENT
50, exclaimed Law. a look of sur
prise passing over his counteaance, un
Ill now rigidly controlled. as he eszed
at The little slip Of paper Your grace
advises ME that here are issued a
his lime in tho shares of The company
no Tess than two 2,2}5.0S5.ja9 livres fin
hottest Against this, as your grace &
good enough to agree with me. we have
100000 00o OF specie. Yogr grace
yourself and | have seen some preDt3
games in onr day Look yau The mer.
riest game Of all your lie Is now bui
inst before y0u,"
And yon would 60 ana leave me al
this tme?"
Never In my life have | forsaken
friend at the time Of distress, replie6
Law "But your grace absolyed M
when you fdfsoos me, when 20
doubted and hesitated regarding me
and believed the protestatiohs Of thosr
net so able as myself 70 judge Of wha
vas best And now il is too late. VIII
popr grace allow me 10 suggest tha
place behind stout gates and bafref
doors deep within the interior Of n
Palais Royal will be the best residence
for him to-night--perhaps Tor segera
nights 70 Gomez
And yourself?"
AS for myself # does not matter
replied Law slowly and deliberate
ly. Il haze lived. and | thought / hac
succeeded. Indeed. success was mine
FOR some short months. though now H