Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-01-12
! A Wall Street Story
IOrigiflal.l


the century speculation in Wall street.
to use a forcible expression, boiled
over" The merchant prince, the law
yer, the doctor, the clerk, the coach
man. the hous4m were all Gin 1t. !"
About that tjnleI 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 / put
It all in the common stock OF the North
ern Pacific railroad preparatory to go
ing TO the country. With my $1,000
me what was needed TO complete the
purchase, holding my stock for Sc
curity. The price was par.
| went to the mountains to join a
party OF which Miss Gylling was a
member, with, IL view to closing a win
terts @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 a desirable parti,
financially. l was quite certain that /
was not. had but s., GOO in the world,
and recession of 10 per cent in the
value of the stock in which it was in
vested would wipe it out as chalk fig
ures may be wiped from blackboard.
But it was love, not money that was
considering, and | 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 declaration un-
til she knew how l was situated finan-
cially. l, suppOsing she was not sure
she loved me, cast about for some other
girl to whom l might devote myself,
thus giving Miss Gylling an Opportu-
nifty to learn how a prospect Of losing
me would affect her. Little Agnes
lWorsley, whose plump figure, round,
rosy cheeks and laughing eyes were
pleasant to look upon, seemed to me
citing person for my purpose.
When ii was evident that my atten-
lions to. Miss WOrsley were not pleas
nag TO Miss GylliDg inferred that the
latter had a better knowledge OF the
state OF her heart, and, taking advan-
tA8e Of this fact, / made my PROPOSE
ten. was disappointed that she did
lHDt fail into my arms and whisper
yes" She did no such thing She re.
0Cetted having led me too far, though
she ''liked me very 4m0ch," 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 dis
patch. Opening it, / read:
"One hundred and fifty bid for North
Izern Pacifle.l Shallswe isell2"
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. 1 was
so excited at having made $4,000 that
1 told her of my good fortune, though,
not caring to be known as Spectator,
/ did not give her the method by which
it had been acquired.
For the rest of the day she seemed at
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 / received a telegram
from my broker asking why l had not
replied to his inquiry. | 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 a duplicate order to
sell and handed it into the receiving
clerk, then went to the hotel. As l en-
tered I heard a man say, whats the
matter with Northern Pacific" A few
minutes later message followed me
from the telegraph Office from my bro
ker.
''Shall we sell Northern Pacific? One
hundred bid"
Here was loss Of all my profit, and
from the message it looked as if the
stock would go lower. Miss Gylling
came I'D. and I handed her the mes
sage, saying that it advised me Of the
loss Of the $4,000 I 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
I was sitting on the piazza, feeling
very much disgruntled over my bad
luck, when Miss Worsley came along.
I wanted some one to sympathize with
me and told her how I had made S10,-
900 and lost it. She not only sympa-
thized with me, but encouraged me to
hope something might happen that
there was no prospect Of happening a
delightful trait possessed by some wO-
men with more heart than practical
sense A boy stepped up to me and
handed me q telegram:
''SoId 200 Northern Pacific at 1000"
''That stupid telegraph girl has writ
ten 900 for 100" I remarked.
Just then q man passed me reading a
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