The Nevada County picayune., 1907-09-26
scopyright, 1907, Doubleday, Page X cO)
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CHAPTER Il.-Continued.
 did not argue with him, for, after that Saturdays outburst, l had made up my mind to avoid stirring Bob up unnecessarily. Also, l had to admit to myself that the things he had then said had raised some uncomfortable thoughts in me- thoughts that made gne glance less confidently now and then at the old sign of Randolph & Randolph and at the big ledger which showed that l, an ordinary citizen of a free country, was the absolute pos 'Sessor of more money than hundred thousand of my fellow beings together .could accumulated in a lifetime, al rthough each had worked harder. long ger, more conscientiously, and with perhaps more ability than I.
 As to how Beulah Sands code had affected my friend, l was ignorant. For the first time in our association was completely in the dark as to what he was doing stockwise. Up to that Saturday I was the first to whom he would rush for congratulations when he struck it rich over others on the tACAtlldHSt, anu lt iHNdIldDlS SOuSIL He for consolation when the boys upper .rcut him hard" as he would put it. Now he never said a word about his trading. l saw that his account with the house was inactive, that his bal aance was about the same as before Miss Sands advent, and I came to the conclusion that he was resting on rpiS and eriyi 9tention to her account and the exc ecution of his commissions. His hand Hing of the business of the house show ~ed no change. He still was the best tDroker on the floor. However, know ing Bob as 1 did, I could not get it eout of my mind that his brain was running like mill-race in search of sEome successful solution of the tre rmendous problem that must be solved 14n the next three months.
 Shortly after the October 1 state YmentS had been sent out, Bob dropped in on Kate and me one night. After she had retired and we had lit our ~cigars in the library he said:
 Jim, l want some of that old-fash- toned advice of yours. Sugar is sell ing at 110. and it is worth it; in fact 1t is cheap The stock is well distrib euted among investors, not much of it floating round the street good 0ig buying movement, well handled would jump it to 175 and keep it there. Am l sound?"
 n agreed with him.
 Wl right. Now what reason is r there for good. big, stiff uplift? That Etariff bill ds up at Washington. If it sgues through, sugar will be cheaper . at 175 xhan ,at 1l0"
 Again l agreed.
 Standard Oil' and the sugar peo- ole know whether it Is going through, flor they control the senate and the house and can induce the president to toe good. What do you say to that?' 70. K.," l answered.
 No question about it, is there?'
 'Na the slightest"
 'R4ght again. When 26 Broadway f9gives the secret order to the Washing gon boss and he passes it out to the f4grafters. there will be a quiet accumu, .lation of the stock. won't there?"
 You've got that right, Bob.
 And the man who first knows when Washington begins to take on sugar is rMe man who should load up quick and rush 1t up to high level. If he does it quickly, the stockholders, who now have it, will get juicy slice of she ripening melon, a slice that other wise would go to those greedy hypo critics at Washington, who are always publicly proclaiming that they are rthere to serve their fellow country men, but who never tire of expressing themselves to their brokers as not be ing in politics for their health
 80 far, good reasoning l com ,mented.
 Jim, the man who first knows wher the senataors and congressman and ' members of the cabinet begin to buy sugar, is the man who can kill foul birds with one stone: Win back g part of Judge Sands stolen fortune increase his own little pile against the first of January, when, if the little Vir ginian lady is short a few hundred thousand of the necessary amount, ht cOuid, II ne lounu way lo inuuSS Hei to accept 1t. supply the deficiency fatten up good friends bank account million or so, and do right gooC turn for the stockholders who arc about to be, for the hundredth time bled out of profit rightfully theirs
 Bob was afre with enthusiasm, tho first I had seen him show for three p,optho Caainp that ! had followed him without objection so far, he con tinued.