The Nevada County picayune., 1907-10-17
CHAPTER III.-continued.
Author of "Frenxied Finance"
tCopyright, 19o7, Doubleday. Page & Co)

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 The sacredness of the scene made me feel like an intruder, and 1 started to leave the room. But in a moment Beulah Sands was her usual self and, turning to me, she said MT Ran dolph, please forget what you have seen. For an instant as l saw MT. BrOwnley's awful misery, l thought of nothing but what he had done for me, what he had tried to do for my father, what a penalty he has paid. From what you said when you left and the fact that l got no word from either Of you, l feared the worst and did not dare look at the tape; l simply waited and hoped and-prayed. Yes. l prayed as my mother taught me l should pray whenever I was helpless and could do nothing myself. And l felt that God would not let the noble work of two such men be overthrown by those you were battling with. In the midst of .calmness that l took for a good omen, you came Can you blame me for for getting myself? MT. Brownley,' the voice was now calm and self-controled,
 
 do we stand?' There is little to tell, Bob answered. "Camemeyer and Standard Oil have taken me into camp as they would take d stuck pig. They have made a monkeyfed ass out of me, and we are ruined, and l have caused MT Randolph a heavy loss Roughly, I figure that of your four mi al hn l lion four hundred thousand profit you had this morning, only your capital re mains"
 Wishing to spare Bob, I interrupted and myself gave the girl briefly the de tails of what had happened. She lis. tened intently and seemed to take in all the trickery of the system mas ters; seemed to see just what it meant 1o us and to her But she made no comment. showed by no outward sign that she suffered. As soon as l was through she turned to Bob, who had stood with his eyes fastened upon her face, as though somewhere out of its soft beauty must come an assurance that this was all d bad dream.
 MT. Brownley," she said. let us figure up just where We stand, so that we may know what to do to recoup You have said so many times, since have been here, that Wall street is magic land, that no man may tell 2i hours ahead what will happen to him You have said it so many times that believe it. We know that this morn ing we were, at the goal, that we were millions ahead and all from 24 hours effort We have yet almost three months left. and l do not see why wt have not just as much chance as wC had day before yesterday Yes, ant more, because we know more now Next time We will include the divi dend cuts and the senate duplicity 1T our figuring"
 We both dumbly stared in wonder ing admiration at this marvellous woman. Was it possible that a gir could have such nerve, such courage Or had woman's hope. so persistent where her loved ones are concerned made Beulah Sands blind to the awful ness of the situation2 As l looked al her l could not doubt that she fully realized our position, that she was really suffering more than either of us that she was only acting to ease Bob's anguish Bob brought out his memo randa, and in half an hour we had the figures. The total loss was nearly three millions. As Beuah Sands 20. 900 shares had cost less than ours ant ,. $400. GOO intact, we felt some comfort Beulah Sands had watched the figuring with the keenness of an expert anC when Bob announced the final figures which showed that she still had what she started with, she drew the sheet containing the totals to her. 'l was willing to accept your assistance" she said. when the deal promised a profit to all of us. because appreciated your goodness and knew how much 1t would hurt your feelings if l were churlisf about the division, but now that we all lose I must stand my fair share; must She said this in a way that wC both knew precluded the possibility of argument. We owned together lDutuVp SidttH' l NdS tO AltAAt hdd NtlN profits OR 10000 shares Our total loss is $2,775,000, of which l must bear my just proportion. MT, Brownley, yot will see that $370,0O0 is charged to my account. l shall have s30000 left. | our cause is as just as we think, Goo in His goodness will make this ample for our purposes"
 Though Bob and I were in despair at hot determination to strip hersel of what Bob had worked so hard tt accumulate. we could not help fe2 in.