The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-10
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1907

AT the window Tweed answered
in a breathless, quivering voice. Il saw
Vance, my broker. L suppose ne knew
of this meeting and was looking across.
l gave him his signal-to sell"
The telephone bell rang and Tweed
caught up the instrument.
This you, Vance? This is Tweed.
Did you sell Valdez? What, all of it,
What price? Down as low as what?
Forty-five to- fifteen.''
He thrust the receiver roughly back
into place cutting off the connection.
"Fifteenl" he cried. Fifteen! Less
| than paid-and 1 counted on 1t to pull
me through"
He went tottering to the table, and,
sinking into a chair, laid his face upon
his outstretched arms.
Well" said WEIGH, fifteen is bet
ter than nothing. And you thought
you had nothing a little while ago.
That was a pretty foxy scheme you
tried to play on us-and that was why
you wouldn't come into the pool"
Hold on, WEIGHT" Dane cried stern
ly. I might have let you send your
message from this ROOM
Welch turned on him furiously. And
by what right" he demanded. do you
| come here to lie to us and tempt US
and sit in Judgment"
''Yesi" cried Shinn, stepping up be-
side the lawyer and confronting Dane.
How dare you trifle with us? You
| lied-yOu lied-you will be held to ac-
count. Decent men will not speak TO
you"
He stopped, quivering with passion,
| speeches. for want of breath; his
| chest heaved, his face was red and
swollen, his eyes flashed. Dane looked
at him sadly. disregarding the lawyer.
l. Il can't say anything" Dane admit
| ted. Il want to do what 1 can"
/ He turned suddenly and sat down at
/ Welch's desk. And while he was sit
| ting there Shinn stood over him, pour
| ing out his TRADE that had momentar-
! lily been chOked.
| "You dared-to play with us-to
mock us-and torture us-for your
sport! We'd done nothing to you
| nothing-we were your friends. By
| God, Caspar Dane, you're disgrace to
| humanity
Dane, who had Endorsed three of the
| five certificates that he had handed to
the lawyer for safe keeping, sat silent
under this scourging. Now he rose,
with the papers in his hand, and said
| quietly to Shinn:
You're right to feel that way-from
what you know; I'll say nothing; you
|
Will"
He passed in front of Shinn and went
| up 70 Tweed, who was still sitting al
stretched arms
Tweed" said Dane, touching his
shoulder The old man did not look
up. Across the table, Paul Herrick
raised his eyes, and saw the contempt
and distrust in his glance. Tweed,
said Dane again gently, you and
| have been friends a good while. And
l want to pay for my fun-mighty poor
fun I've found it. l don't know how
much you've lOst-but here are three
certificates for thousand shares each
and you've got to take 'em. In six
months Valdez will be worth a hun
| dred dollars a share-and if 1 know
| anything about mines, our great
grandsons will be drawing dividends
! from ii as well as ourselves. Come,
old man; you won't turn me down or
! this?"
| Then. as Tweed still did not raise his
head, Dane forced the papers into the
mans outstretched hands.
For a moment Tweed looked up.
Thank you, Dane" he said; then he
dropped his head again and wept. The
others stood silent and wretched.
Tweed turned with a sudden attempt at
| bravery.
III take it Dane" he said. II can't
pretend to be proud-after-after the
humiliation of this hour. 1 swear to
you men-maybe you can't believe it,
but / swear-that in all my life until
now 1 have never once did a dishonest
thing-and then in an hour, to be ex-
posed as a swindler and traitor and
| a hypocrite, II can't afford to be
proud. II wouldn't have believed it
of myself an hour ago."
Dane, with a sudden inspiration,