The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-21
FORTUNES FOOTBALL
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~. I0 QlQ guOL Ieel e1clGeu OI ut1 VOuoS
merely speculative, as he mad been when aea
ting and the present moment was q diff.
ference Of exactly forty minutes, and
tel. During the forty minutes, the.
5000 odd had fuctuated in, splendid and
most capricious proportions. At one
SAC, 900. That was when the. red was
winning. Now it was nothing, and
Ramsdel rose with a curious sense Of re-
lieved tension and speculative content.
There was a crowded semicircle Of
faces back Of his chair. He did not
meet any Of the eyes. There would
Not that he cared for public sentiment
He simply did not want it at all. At
least he knew that one face was not
there. ' ~ " z
It was cool and dark out Of doors.
He stopped outside the Casino, lit a
cigarette and took the promenade to-
there and he could think, There was
much to think of. He had to think
whether or not it should be his last
chance to think. ~
AS he left the lights and the music
behind, he had an odd p~remonitory
feeling of separation from it ALL, even
the hotels and the railway station;
AuCdu u ILL was Ln0 Cd6t1Ou ptCOP VI
Monaco, beyond that the sea and the
night, and beyond that-he lifted his
face to the stars and wondered.
l. He was neither desperate nor NOR
bid. Several times in his life when
a crisis had come, he had found him
self acting as two distinct personalities
There was n who simply drifted on
who watched the drifting in a quiet, i'm
personal fashion,, and was extremely
sorry for the other fellow in a friendly
way, but was not troubled concerning
him. The worst that the tide could dc
was to lay him gently up on the shore
He felt in his pocket and drew out
left. He replaced them carefully. II
was a time when items mattered. He
would smoke the five and think, anc
perhaps at the fifth, the tide woulc
come in. "
Two years exactly had passed since
he had seen .Crittenden. He had gone
toh, i'm in about the same spirit al
was q chance of a hundred to y thai
he might win.
He had known the man slightly. Be
fore the bottom had dropped out Of
the market that last day he had seer
Crittenden leaning comfortably agains
a. pillar near the wheat pit, watching
him. When it was over he had passed
out his hand.
br nGGod 49, &t,e. b all 55isht'' he ''i'
It was not much Of a straw to grass
at, but there was a look of interested
sympathy and appreciation In hi
glance, that, coming from John R. Crit
tenden, made it a whole hayload.
l = Rornc1oH ho1 rono RI him fho nav
day with the proposition. 1t was no
a: sentimental one. Probably if it ha,
been he would have left the office o.
La Sale street in five minutes. AS i
was, he had stayed over two hours
He had told .Crittenden nothing bu
the cold facts in the case. He was ut
ttearly ruined in the crash Of May wheat
and SO held the market for another day
he might possibly have won out. A
it was, he was worse than penniless
and he wanted $4,000 from Crittende1
It was to be in the nature Of a loa1
He would insure his life for $4,000 i
tenden holding the note against him fo
$4,000 would cover the insurance regr
l~ations. The note was to be mad
payable at the end of two years. A
the expiration of that time, if he faile
to meet it, he gave his word Of homo
that he would commit suicide.
C%rittenden had heard him thru
silence.
1T mean what I say" Ramsdell ha
remarked, after waiting for an answe
IT know that you d." had retorte;
have you arrested as a crank, or a lun;
money! ~
M ~ -,1~1r o-I M - -o~rI7r, h.
t . a waste Of time. Thiisp is quicker.
CTS all right except the suicid
"That is merely a protection to 20,
: I have no other security to give for tt
money"
liked dlstag grit, (. but being ga Of ia an eide older e gFe'
nothing. It showed principle. On tt
strength Of it, coupled with his pr
2 vious opinion Of young Ramsdell as
= wheat %speeulator, he had taken his mo-
. Inside Of a year Ramsdell had lle
3 Fortune was elusive, and had playt
I football with him. Several times !
had approached the 1000 mark, b.
had never passed it. He had stayed
New York ten months, and had left f
Europe with something less than $500
, It had been a chance. Also, as
minor, personal consideration, he had {
idea that it would be easier living ,
to, or rather dying up to, his word
honor in Europe than at home. The
were fewer temptations for living thu
on the home side.
He had not counted on Beata.
The second cigarette became al il
possible half inch, and he threw it
h the ground and lit a third.
He had seen her the first day aft
reaching Monaco. It had been a m
mentary glimpse, when for a sing
instant their chances had met. {
he stepped from the entrance Of t
Hotel de Paris, a white automobi
had passed, taking. the road to 4
,e Rivera. Everything about it W
white, even to the garb Of the chat
h four. The girl beside the latter b
. worn an al-enveloping cloak Of hea'
white silk. Her white leather caps
closely on q mass Of fair hair, as ri
4 in color as a clump Of golden rod
an autumn prairie back home in 1llino
Il There was a continental repose a
81 finish to her that placed a barrier
separation between her and the gil
whom he had seen about the Cast
and hotels. Her long automobile v
IA Of white chiffon was lifted from b
I. face, and as she passed, her dark ey
had looked directly at him.
y Clancy, Ward & Jafray,'s Europe
a. Glancy's was the only familiar face
had seen since he left the boat
Marseines.
"a ttsShe's beyond you, boy; way !
~ nrtsOf SIGHT DOrEands the moon. me