The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-17
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CONTINUED from Last Saturday,
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CHAPTER bob BROMLEY creates
n panic In Wall street He is a friend
dolph, bankers and brokers'. Brown
ley and Randolph had gone to college
together. and entered the employ of
Randolph's father at the close of col
lege days. Brownley is Virginian by
birth. Beulah Sands, daughter of an
old irg ; house: calls on Brownley
tical1y ruined by the stock operations
of Reinhart. She hopes to otilize her
own money in Wall street in retriev-
ing her fathers fortunes before his
condition becomes known, and asks for
employment in the office that she may
have an opportunity to better under
does not want it used in purely Wall
street gamble. but in the buying and
selling of legitimate securities. Brown
ley agrees to help her, and falls in
CHAPTER II-Brownley plunges in
sugar stock. He uses the. money of
Is backed heavily by the Randolph
millions. His coup seems successful
and he tells Miss Sands that she has
cleared $500, 900. But the market had
CHAPTER III-Barry Conant, head
broker for Standard Oil and sugar in
In the midst of panic he breaks the
market and with its fall he carries
away the earnings and much of the
capital of both Miss Sands and himself
A pretty love scene occurs between the
two at the office when Bob attempts
to tell her the terrible truth of their
fall. Brownley takes a trip to Virginia
The following afternoon the letter
came. 1t showed Judge Sands in
very nervous, uneasy state. He said
he had been living life of daily ter
ror, as some of his friends, for whose
estates he was trustee, had been re-
ceiving anonymous letters, advising
them to look into the Judges trust af-
fairs; that the Reinhart crowd had
been using renewed pressure to make
him let go all his Seaboard stock,
which they wanted to secure at the
low prices to which they had de-
pressed it, in order that they might re-
organize and carry out the scheme
they had been so long planning. Judge
Sands went on to say that the day he
was compelled to sell his Seaboard
stock he would have to make public
an announcement of his condition, as
there could be no sale without the
courts consent. His closing was:
My dear daughter, no one knows better
than I the almost hopelessness of expect
ing any relief from your operations. But
so hopeless have l become of late so
much am l reliant upon you, my dear
child, and eternal hope so springs in all
of us when confronted with great neces-
stiles, that I have hoped and still hope
that you are to be the savior of your
family; that you, only frail child, are
through Gods marvellous workings to be
the one to save the honor of that name
we both love more than life; the one to
keep the wolf of poverty from that door
through which so far has come nothing
but the sunshine of prosperity and hap
piness; the one, my dear Beulah, who is
to save your old father from a dishonored
grave. Dear child, forgive me for plac-
ing upon your weak shoulders the addi-
tional burden of knowing am now help
less and compelled to rely absolutely
upon you. After you have read my letter
IL there is no hope, command you to tell
me so at once, for although 1 am now
financially and almost mentally helpless,
l am still a Sands, and there has never
yet been one of the name who shirked his
duty, however stern and painful it might
be.
When l handed the letter back to
Miss Sands, she said
Mr.. Randolph, let me tell you and
Mr.. BROMLEY little about my father
and our home, that you may see our
situation as it is. My father is one of
the noblest men that ever lived l am
not the only one who says that-if you
were to ask the people of our state to
name the one man who had done most
for the state as state, most for her
progressive betterment, most for her
people high and low, white and black,
they would answer, Judge Lee Sands.
He has been, and Is, the idol of our
people, After he was graduated from
Harvard, he entered the law Office of
my grandfather, Senator Robert Lee
Sands. Before he was 80 he was in
congress and was even then reputed
the greatest orator Of our state, where
orators are so plentiful. He married
my mother, his second cousin, Julia
Lee, of Richmond, at rs, and from
then until the attack of that ruthless
money shark, led life such as true
man would map out for himself If his
Maker granted him the privilege. You
WOulQ nave W NlSlI dt Jul uoiuc " DIP
preciate my fathers character and to
understand how terrible this sorrow Is
to him. Every morning of bis life he
spends an hour after breakfast with
my dear mother, who Is cripple from
hip disease He takes her In his arms
and brings her down from her room to
the library as if she were a child. He
then reads to her-and he knows GOOD
books as well as he knows his friends
After he takes mother back to heI
room, he gives an hour to our people.
the blacks of the plantation and his
white tenants throughout the county,
He is a father to them all. He settles
all their troubles, big and little. Then
for hours he and 1 go over his business
affairs. Every afternoon from four to
five he devotes to his estates and the
men and women for whom he acts as
trustees. He has often said to me:
We have a clear million of money and
property, and that is all any man
should have in America. 1t is all he
is entitled to under our form of gov.
eminent Any more than that an
honest man should in one way or an.