The Princeton union., 1906-08-16

mountain. 1 know just the things to
start in on Systematically. Now don't
breathe word of this, but there's a
big deal on in Consolidated Copper.
happened on to the fact in a queer
way the other night There's a broker
I've known downtown-fellow by the
name of Relpin. Met him last sum-
mer. He does most of Shepler's busi-
ness; he's supposed to be closer to
Shepler and know more about the in
side of his deals than any man in the
street. Well, 1 ran across Relpin
down in the cafe the other night and
he was wearing one of those gents
nobby th4ee-button souses. Nothing
would do but I should dine with him,
so did. 1t was the night you and the
folks went to the opera with the Old
akers. Relpin was full of lovely talk
and dark hints about a rise in copper
stock, and another rise in Western
Trolley, and a bigger rise than either
of them in Union Cordage. How that
fellow can do Shepler's business and
drink the stuff that makes you talk
I don't see. Anyway he said-and you
can bet what he says goes-that the
Consolidated is going to control the
worlds supply of copper inside Of
three months, and the stock is bound
to kite, and so are these other two
stocks; Shepler's back of all three.
The insiders are buying up now, SLOW
ly and cautiously, so as not to start
any boom prematurely. Consolidated
is ITO now, and it'll be up to $50 by
April at the latest. The others may
go beyond that. wasn't looking for
the game at the time. so didn't give
it any thought, but now, you see,
there's our chance. Well plunge in
those three lines before they start to
rise, and be in on the ground floor"
Nov don't you be rash! That
Sheplers old enough to suck eggs and
hide the shells. heard a man say the
other day copper was none too good
at 11O.'
Exactly. You can hear anything
you're looking to hear, down there.
But tell you this was straight. Don't
you suppose Shepler knows what he's
about?-there's a boy that won't be
peddling shoe laces and gum-drops off
one of these neat little bosom trays
not for eighty-f1ve or ninety thousand
years yet-and Relpin, even if he was
drunk, knows Shepler's deals like you
know Skiplap. They'll bear the stocks
all they can while they're buying up.
l wouldn't be surprised If the next
o{@1 3rp:I
That would send her down few
points and throw more stock on the
market. Meantime, they're quietly
workin' to get control of the European
mines-and as to Western Trolley and
Union Cordage-say, kelpin actually
got to crying-they're so good-he had
one of those loving ones the kind
where you want to be good to every
one in the world. I'm surprised he
didn't get into a sandwich sign and
patrol Broadway, giving those tips to
everybody"
course, we're on proposition now
that you know more about 1t than I
do; you certainly do take right hold
at once-that was your pas way, too.
minute than most men could in a
year. I got to trust you wholly in
these matters, and I know l can do it.
too l got confidence in you, no mat
ter what other people say. They don't
know you like do. And if there's any
other things you know about fur
sure"
"Well, there's Burman. He's plung-
ing in corn now. His father has
staked him, and he swears he can't
lose. He was after me to put aside a
million. Of course if he does win out
1t would be big money"
"Well, son I can't advise you none
except I know you have got head on
you, no matter how people talk. You
know about this end Of the game. and
I'll have to be led entirely by you. If
you think Burman's got good propo-
sition, why, there amt anything like
gettin' action all along the layout,
from ace down to seven-spot and back
to the king card"
'That's the talk. I'll see Relpin to-
day or tomorrow. I'll bet he tries to
hedge on what he said. But got him
too straight-let a drunken man alone
for telling the truth when he's got It
in him. Well start in buying at
once"
''It does sound good. I must say
you take hold Of it considerable like
Danl J. would "a done-and use my
money jest like your own I do want
to see you takin' your place where
you belong. This life of idleness YOU
~ been leadin'-one continual potlatch
the whole time-it want doin' you a
bit Of good"
Well get action, don't you worry,
Now let's have lunch downstairs, and
then go for drive. It's too fine day
to stay in"
Percival confessed to his mother
that night that he had wronged Uncle
Peter
THAT old boy is all right vet" he