The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-27

looked as though the shares were good
for the figures set for them by Bob,
$175, at which price the Sands profits
would be $1.200,O00. Bob was beside
himself with Joy. He dined with Kate
and me, and as | watched him my
heart almost stopped beating at the
thought-"if anything should happen
to upset his plans!" His happiness
was pathetic to witness. He was like
a child. He threw away all the reserve
of the past three months and laughed
and was grave by turns. After din
ner, as We sat in the library over our
coffee, he leaned over to my wife and
said:
Katherine Randolph. you and Jim
don't know what misery I have been
in for three months, and now-will to-
morrow never come, so l may get into
the whirl and clean up this deal and
send that girl back to her father with
the money! l wanted her to tele-
graph the judge that things looked
like she would win out and bring back
the relief, but she would not hear of
it. She is a marvellous woman. She
has not turned hair to-day DOM
think her pulse is up an eighth to-
night. She has not sent home a word
of encouragement since she has been
here, more than to tell her father she
is doing well with her stories. 1t
seems they both agreed the only way
to work the thing out was whole
hog or none and that she was to say
nothing until she could herself bring
the word saved or lost don't know
but she is right. She says If she
should raise her fathers hopes. and
then be compelled to dash them, the
effect would be fatal"
Bob rushed the talk along. fitting
from one point to another, but invaria-
bly, returning to Beulah Sands and to.
morrow and it's saving profits. Final
ly, he got to pitch where 1t seemed
as though he must take off the lid, and
before Kate or / realized what was
coming he placed himself in front of
us and said:
Jim, Kate, I cannot go into to-mor-
row without telling you something
that neither of you suspect. l must
tell some one, now that everything Is
coming odt right and that Beulah Is to
be saved; and whom can l tell but
you. who have been everything to me?
Il love Beulah Sands, surely, deeply,
with every bit of me. l worship her,
tell you, and tomorrow, tomorrow If
this deal comes out as 1t must come.
and l can put $1,500,000 into her
hands and send her home to her ia
Their, then, then, will tell her love
her, and Jim, Rate, If she'll marry me.
good-by, goed-by to this he'll of dollar
hunting, good-by to such misery as
have been in for three months, and
home, Virginia home, for Beulah and
me-" He sank into a clair and tears
rolled down his cheeks. Poor poor
Bob, strong as a lion in adversely,
hysterical as woma- with victory in
sight.
The next day sugar opened with
wild rush: $4,000 shares from 140 to
1872 That is the way it came on the
tape, which neant that the crowd
around the sugar-pole was mob and
that the transactions were SO heavy,
quick and tangled that no one could
tell to certainty just what the first
or opening price was; but after the
first lull, after the gong, there were Of
ficially reported transactions aggre-
eating $4,000 shares and at prices va
rying from 40 to 152. l was over on
the floor to see the scramble, for 1t
was noised about long before ten
o'clock that sugar would open wild,
and then, too, wanted to be handy if
Bob should need any quick advice
A minute before the gong struck,
there were 300 men damned around
the sugar-pole; men with set deter
mined faces; men with their coats
buttoned tight and shoulders thrown
back for the rush to which. by COM
parison, that of football team Is
child's play. Every man in that
crowd was a picked man, picked for
what was coming. Each felt that
upon his individual powers to keep
clear head, to shout loudest, to forget
nothing, to keep his feet, and to stay
as near the center of the crowd as pos
sible, depended his floor honor" per-
haps his fortune, or, what was more
to him, his clients fortune. Nearly
every man of them was college
graduate who had won his spurs at
athletics or seasoned floor man
whose training had been even more
severe than that of the college camp
us. When it was known before the
opening of the exchange that there are
to be things doing" in a certain
stock, it is the rule to send only the
picked floor men into the crowd.
There may be fortune to make or to
lose in a minute or a silver of a min
ute. For instance, the man who that
morning was able to snatch the first
5000 shares sold at 140 could have
at 1862 and secured 10000 profit. And
the man who was sent into the crowd
by his client to sell 5000 shares at the
Opening" and who got but 140, when
the price would be 1852 by the time he
reported to his customer, was a man
to be pitied. Again, the trader who
the night before had decided that
sugar had gone up too fast, and who
had "shorted" (that is, sold what he
did not have, with the intention of re-
purchasing at lower price than he
sold 1t for) 5000 shares at 140 and
who, finding himself in that surging
mob with sugar selling at 152, could
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