Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-30
DAILY STORY
A WALL STREET STORY.

| O'ti- iC l'ilh1N, nv i""
yer, the doctor, the clerk, the coach
man. the housemaid We're all Tin it,"
About that time l got into the kettle"
myself with a thousand dollars that
had been left me by an aunt. Stocks
kept going up, and l doubled my
money. When summer came on L put
it all in the common stock of the North
ern Pacific railroad preparatory to GO
ing to the country. With my $1,000 l
bought 200 shares, my broker lending
me what was needed to complete the
purchase, holding my stock for Sc
curty. The price was par.
| l went to the mountains to join 4
party of which Miss Gylling was
member. with a view to closing a win
ter's courtship and entering upon a
contract of marriage. She appeared to
be much pleased to see me, but some
what constrained. | did not know it
| at the time. but she was not quite GER
tain that l was desirable parti,
financially. / was quite certain that L
was not | had but 50 600 in the world
and a recession of 10 per cent in the
value of the stock in which il was in
vested would wipe il out as chalk fig
ures may be wiped from a blackboard
| Dul II WAS IONt, nOI ElOneS. ludI i WIS
considering. and l supposed Miss CYL
ling was influenced solely by the die
| tateS of her heart.
| Miss Gylling soon showed that she
was temporizing with me. She did
| not wish me to make Il declaration I'M
| til she knew how | was situated tinan-
cially i, supposing she was not sure
she loved me, cast about for some other
| girl to whom | might devote myself,
| thus giving Miss Gylling an opportu-
nifty to learn how prospect of losing
me would affect her. Little Agnes
| WOrsley. whose plump figure. round
rosy cheeks and laughing eyes were
| pleasant TO look upon. seemed TO me
n fitting person for my purpose.
When it was evident that my atten-
| tiops to Miss Worsley were not pleas
| ing 70 Miss Gylling l inferred that the
| latter had Il better knowledge of the
state of her heart, and, taking advan-
| tage of this fact l made my PROPOSE
ton. | was disappointed that she did
| not fall into my arms and whisper
Yes" She did no such thing. She re
GREETED having led me too far. though |
she liked me very much" and gave |
me hope that 1 might be accepted in
time. Chilled by this reception of my
declaration. | turned away to meet a |
telegraph boy. who handed me Il dis |
patch. Opening il. 1 read:
lone hundred and fifty bid for North |
ern Pacific. Shall we sell?'
Going to the writing room of the ho-
tel, wrote an order to SELL and hand |
ing it to the boy directed him to send |
1t at once. Miss Gylling came into the |
room as / was going out and asked me |
if had received any bad news. l was |
so excited at having made $4,000 that |
l told her of my good fortune. though. |
not caring to be known as a Spectator,
I did not give her the method by which |
il had been acquired.
For the rest of the day she seemed at |
Il loss how TO treat me. One moment |
she would appear to favor me and at
another TO repulse me. Just before sep
arating for the night she promised to
give me an answer the next day and |
led me to believe it would be favorable.
In the morning l received a telegram
from my broker asking why had not
replied to his inquiry. 1 at once went
to the telegraph office and found that
the boy who had carried my message
had been run over by an automobile
and the order to sell had not been tele-
graphed. l wrote n duplicate order to
sell and handed it into the receiving
clerk. then went to the hotel As 1 en-
tered / heard n man say, What's the
matter with Northern Pacific?" 4 few
minutes later n message followed me
from the telegraph Office from my bro
kerr
''Shall we sell Northern Pacific? One
hundred bid
Here was a loss of all my profit. and
from the message it looked as if the
stock would go lower. Miss Gylling
came up. and / handed her the mes
sage. saying that it advised me of the
loss of the $4,000 had made the day
before. She looked somewhat discon-
certed as though the loss or something
connected with it annoyed her and,
seeing her mother across the hall, left
me TO join her.
! was sitting on the piazza, feeling
very much disgruntled over my bad
luck. when Miss Worsley came along.
wanted some one to Sympathize with
me and told her how / had made S1O.- 6
600 and lost it. She not only sympa- I
thized with me, but encourag ed me to {
hope something might happen that
there was no prospect OF happenings 4
delightful trait possessed by some wo- s
men with more heart than practical
sense. A boy stepped up to me and
handed me a telegram: La
''Sold 200 Northern Pacific at 1000" .
'1'hat stupid telegraph girl has writ 4
ten / 900 for 100" remarked.
Just then a man passed me reading
newspaper, and I saw in scare head
lines:
Northern Pacific 1000"
I asked him what it meant. and he =
said there was no doubt that 1000 was
bid for the stock but little or none was
for sale In my ecstasy threw my
arms about little Miss Worsley and T
Rugged her.
I telegraphed for a repetition of the L