The progress., 1904-02-20

CONFlDENIIAL WAY.
painted on the ceiling of the trading
room. Above the mingled voices COM
ing from the ring could be heard deep
bass voice with enough life in it for
three ordinary men. One Of the old
timers paused in his estimate of how
much per cent. of condition the crop had
lost through the drought and exclaimed:
That's young DePoincy. Say, he can
yell almost as loud as could when
was his age"
'DePoincy is a wonder for young
ster. Ever hear how he got his wife?"
Didn't know he was married? Sure
Married old Albert Carriere's daughter,
the same old Carriere who made so
much money in street railway DEAL
"Old man Carriere was bound that De-
Poincy would either stay single or mar
ry some other mans daughter, and De-
Poincy was just as determined that Miss
Carriere should become Mrs. DePoincy.
OF course don't say that the old mans
money had anything to do with DePoin-
cy's desire, but still-well, anyway, De-
Poincy proved too crafty for the old man
and got his daughter 1t came about
this way:
"You see young DePoincy and Car
riere's daughter used to 60 to school
with each other. That was all right,
but when they grew up and DePoincy
got place as a brokers' clerk and mes
senger while Miss Carriere commenced
to blossom out in swell society, old man
Carriere decided that any little famil-
iarity which had sprung up between the
two must be nipped in the bud, espe-
cially as he was contemplating a trip
across the water, when the daughter
should get little older, with the view
of picking up title to annex to the fam
lily.
"The young couple, however, didn't
take to this pleasant little plan of pap's,
even If it was all the go in exclusive
society. But the old man was obstinate.
To tell the truth, he always was pig
headed, as they say up the river. went
to college with him and therefore |
know. Besides his obstinacy he never
was blessed with more brains than the
law allows, but his father had left him
we'll fixed with cash and somehow or
other he stumbled into big street rail-
way deal and made his pile all the larger
His head swelled in proportion with the
idea that he was financier in class
all by himself.
"Old Carriere's ideas of the Importance
of himself and his family made it rather
much Of each other. DePoincy's love
affair didn't discourage him in the least.
He kept right on plugging away and
doing everything he could to get into
touch with the cotton market. About
the time that old man Carriere had de-
cided that mere brokers' clerks were too
low down in the scale of society for an
heiress who would some day have
bank account as large as the one he had
tucked away for his daughter DePoincy
was admitted to membership in the Cot
ton Exchange. He had lots of nerve and
good common sense and some little
knowledge of cotton, for he had been
studying the market ever since he had
left school. 1t wasn't long before he be-
gan to be felt onc.-ia awhile and his
firm commenced to respect his judgment.
"All this time old Carriere never for
got the big deal in which he had made
such a pile. 1t was just a stroke of fools
luck on his part, but he thought it was
due to his shrewdness and ability and
after awhile he commenced to take a
few f1iers in stocks again.
couldn't get on the right side of any
move.
"The daughter found out what the old
man was doing and of course she told
DePoincy, whom she continued TO meet
probably just because her father told
her not to; anyway. instead of trying to
be good and learning French so that she !
might talk to that count the old man
was figuring on buying. she held stolen
conferences with DePoincy As | have !
said there was nothing slow about that |
and IL he couldn't think up a |
scheme to get around a difficulty there |
was no scheme to be found anywhere
"One morning, just after the old man |
had sunk another thousand or two by |
getting on the upside Of the market
when 1t was going down. DePoincy ap-
preached him in confidential way. At
first he would have nothing TO do with /
the "upstart," as he called DePoincy,
but when the hint was let out that a big |
deal was ahead and that DePoincy was |
on the inside but he couldn't get ABOARD
because he couldn't raise the money. and