Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-09-19
SYNOPSIS.

FIR bob Brownley creates
panic in Wall street. He is n friend Of
Jim Randolph of Randolph g. Randolph,
bankers and brokers. BROMLEY and Ran
dolph had gone to college together and
entered the employ of Randolph's father
at the close of college days. BROMLEY
f. a Virginian by birth. Beulah Sands,
daughter OF an old virginia house. calls
on BROMLEY and tells him her father
has been practically ruined by the stock
operations of Reinhart. She hopes 70
utilize her own money In Wall street In
retrieving her fathers fortunes before
his condition becomes known, ana asks
for employment in the Office that she may
have an opportunity to better undsrstand
how her money 10 invested. She does not
want II used In q purely Wall street
gamble, but in the buying and selling 81
Legitimate securities. BROMLEY agrees -
help her. and falls in love with her.
CHAPTER II-Brounlsy piunSss IN
sugar stock. He uses the money Of Miss
Sands, his own and In addition II backed
heavily by the Randolph millions. His
coup seems successful, and he tells Miss
sands that she has cleared q, 500 900. But
the market had not cloSed.
! CHAPTER Hillary Conant, head
(broker for Standard on and sugar In
iterests, suddenly begins to sell sugar"
In the midst of a panic he breaks the
1.-The earnings and much of the capital OF
beth Miss Sands and himself. A pretty
love scene occurs between the two at the
IOdles when Bob attempts to tell her the
terrible truth OF their nan. BroWnlsy
takes q trip to Virginia
CHAPTER IV-Beulah AAd hob become
SngaGed. Randolph wants to loan her
Sather the money to meet his obligations.
she refuses. Bob figures en- how - beat
Wall street at its own game. Sugar takes
smother Sensational squirt upward, but
iBrsWnlSy keeps out.
CHAPTER v-The 'bufiB'' toss sugar
20 record breaking point, and tho street
goes wild. Barry Conant, for the 'sys-
tenn" pushes prices up and up, ana q
wonderful cleanup is promised when the
exchange closes. Thursday, November II.
Sugar opens higher Friday morning. No
vemSsr 10. When the price had passed
all bounds Brownley steps into the pit and
begins to sell. He sells every share the
syBtem's' brokers will take, and pounds
the price down and down until failures
are OF momentary occurrence. ana the
system" has lost millionk He has made
.uNallions for Beuiah Sands and her father.
CHAPTER VI-Beulah Sands insists
upon being assured that there is no dis
honor connected with the money he has
swer no" He leaves her to think IL
out. When he returns he finds her star
hng at the glarinE headlines of a newspa-
per extra announcing that her father,
while temporarily insane, had killed his
wife, his daughter and himself and
,Beulah Sands had gone crazy.
CHAPTER vII-Bob BROMLEY marries
beautiful insane Beulah Sands and takes
her to Virginia. The sight of the old
AAa
the returns with her TO New York and
Fbuilds palace for his bride, one floor
of which is designed especially for her.
HE begins plunging on the street" and
adds millions to his now great fortune.
de always opposes the system" His
every appearance on the floor of the ex-
change means paAicky conditions. Time
after time he has the street" seemingly
AT his mercy, but relents before the great
crash comes.
Shortly after this talk Bob left for
Europe with Beulah. A great Ger
man expert on brain disorders had
held cut hope that a six months treat
msnt at his sanitarium In Berlin
might aid in restoring her mind. They
returned the following August. The
trip had been fruitless. It was plain
to me that Bob was the same hope
lessIy desperate man as when he left,
more hopeless, more desperate II any
thing than when he warned me OF his
determination.
When he left for Europe the
Street" breathed more freely, and as
time went by and there was no sign
of his confdence-disturbing influence
lin the market, the System" began
to bring out its deferred deals. Times
were ripe for setting up the most
wildly inflated stock lamb.shearing
traps. It had been advertised through
out the world that Tom Reinhart, now
a two.hundred.time millionaire, was to
consolidate hie and many other enter
prises into one gigantic trust with
twelve billions OF capital. His Union
and Southern Pacific railroads, his
Southern lines, together with his
steamship company and lead, iron
and copper mines. we're 20 be merged
vita the steel, traction, gas, and other
enterprises he owned Jointly witt
\ l"Standard OIL" Some Of the railroads
Eowaod by Rockefeller and his pals, IN
(which Reinhart had no part, were "a
40 in too, and with these was to unite
that mother hog Of them all, "StAnG
ara OIL" itself. The trust was 70 b
an sAsrmous company. the IKE o.
watch Had until then not eVen beSr
dreamed Of vthsVmosk daring atcch
.maRipulators. The "system's" banks
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