Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-08-08
SYNOPSIS.

dnInh had gone to college together and
SEltered the employ OF RAndolph's fAthsr
At the close OF college days. BroWnleT
In a Virginan by birth. Beulah Sands,
daughter Of an old Virginia house. eals
On BROMLEY and tells him her fAtheT
has been practically ruined by the stock
operations of Reinhart. She hopes 70
utilise her own money in wall street In
retrieving her fathers fortunes sotsrS
hia condition becomes known, and asks
for employment In the ONCE that shs may
have an opportunity TO better understand
how her money 10 invested She does not
want II used In a purely Wall street
gamble but in the buying and selling OF
legitimate securities. BroWnley agrees to
helR her, and falls in love with her.
CHAPTER IT-BrownIey pIunges In
sugar stock He uses the money OF Miss
Sands, his own and In addition is backed
heavily by the Randolph millions. His
eoup seems successful, and he tells Miss
sands that she has cleared N,seo.oo0. But
the market had net closed
you think so, do you, Jim? That
b. the way 1t looks to you, but tell
you money had nothing to do with 1t.
Nothing had to do with 1t but the
hendish system Of fraud and trickery
HpOn which the whole stock-gambling
structure is reared. Nothing entered
imta the whole business but the trick
cry of Safeguarding as conducted to-
dRT II was only q question. Jim, OF
a mans opening and closing his mouth
and splitting out words. From the
minute Barry Conant came into that
crowd until he left and we were ruin
cd. he showed no money, no anything
that ! did not show. From the very
nature of the business he could not
He simply said: Sold oftener and
longer than / said Buy He may have
had money back OF him, or he may
only have had nerve. God Almighty
is the only one who can tell. for when
ConAnt was through he was able to
buy back at 80 the $4,000 shares he
sold me at 175, the $4,000 that broke
my back Jim, II had known as
much that day as do now l would
haVe stood in that crowd and bought
all the stock he sold at 1870. and I
would have stood there buying until
hell troze over or he quit; then /
would have made him rebuy 1t At $50
or 1850. and l would have broken him
and ali his Camemeyer and Standard
Or hackers; broken them to their
last crime-covered dollar"
"4ob, what are you talking shout ?
1t IL all Chinese to me. l cannot get
head or tail Of what you are driving
at"
II know you can't, Jim, neither
could Wall street II It were listening
to me. But you will. and Wall street
viii too, before many days 60 by
Nov i must be of. l have work to
do"
He put on his hat and left me try
ing to puzzle out Just what he meant
Next day the Sugar bulls had the
sconter Of the stock exchange stage
All day long they tossed Sugar from
Ona to another, a. though each thou
sand shares had been a wiBp OF ha!
instead OF 5000, 000-for soon after tht
TENS" cohorts were In absolute con
trOI, with Barry Conant never a min
ute away from the Sugar-pole, Away
on the alert to steer the course o
price when they threatened to rul
away on the up or the down side
1t was evident to the expert reader
OF the tape that the system" was cal
ryiuE its steed for an exceptionally
brilliant run. Ike Bloomenstein, tn
AvenKer Fiend. who for 40 years hR
kept close track of every movement
on the floor, and who would bet any
thing, from his Fifth avenue mansIo
10 his Overrips bosrdroom straw ha
that all stocks and movements wer
as strictly subject to the law OF ave
ages as are the tides to the moon An
SUI, remarked TO Joe Barnes, the loa
expert:
"'Cam' mt dc KeroBeneFs are put
ding up OgStra dop rails to dot WOO
pen Och hat ben pildinE since Deb too
Pop ProWnIeS and deb RantOlphs int
Camp. Unless my topesheet goes pAc
sOn me, for Deb frBt dime in 20 year
derS vim pc record clip before . wee
from tO-tay."
II am with you there, Ike" q
+Rwered Joe. IF Barry Commits knit
edged teeth ever spelt \ KILN, the
do to-day. just got orders fro
somewhere to drop call money fro
four to two and half per cent. n
they have given me ten millions
drop it with and the order In to
Vor Sugar as 'collat' Some ono
jAnuous to make 1t easy for the blss
lors to get the coin to buy all u
Sugar they want Ike, you and mig
Tor Ia FtLr a VII