Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-10-10
SYNOPSIS.

panic Ia w al street. lie is a trlen0 OF
Jim Randolph Of Randolph & Randolph,
bankers and brokers. Brownley and Ran
dolph had gone TO college together and
entered the employ OF Randolph's father
at the close Of college days. BROMLEY
is Nirginian by birth. Beulah Sands,
daughter Of an old Virginia house, calls
on Brownlcy and tells him her father
has been practically ruined by the stock
operations of Reinhsrt. She hopes to
utilize her own money in Wall street In
retrieving her fathers fortunes before
his condition becomes known and asks
for employment in the office that she may
have an opportunity to better understand
how her money is invested. She does not
want it used in a purely Wall street
gamble but in the buying and selling of
legitimate securities. Brownley agrees to
help her, and falls in love with her.
CHAPTER II-Brownley plunEes in
sugar stock. He useS the money of Miss
Sands, his own and in addition is backed
heavily by the Randolph millions. His
coup seems successful, and he tells Miss
Sands that she has cleared s1,so0,0OO. But
the market had not closed.
! CHAPTER III-Barry Conant. head
broker for Standard Oil and sugar in
lterests, suddenly begins to sell sugar"
! In the midst of a panic he breaks the
market and with its fall carries away
THE earnings and much OF the capital OF
both Miss Sands and himself. A pretty
love scene occurs between the two at the
office when Bob attempts to tell her the
terrible truth OF their fall. Brownley
takes a trip to Virginia.
| CHAPTER IV-Beulah and Bob become
lengagcd. Randolph wants to loan her
father the money to meet his obligations
She refuses Bob figures on how to beat
Wall street at It's own game. Sugar takes
tanother sensational squirt upward, but
IBrownley keeps out.
CHAPTER v-The bulls" toss sugar
TO record breaking point, and the street.
goes wild. Barry Conant, for the "sys-
tenn" pushes prices up and up, and a
wonderful cleanup is promised when the
exchange closes, Thursday, November H.
Sugar opens higher Friday morning. No
vember 10. When the price had passed
all bounds BROMLEY steps into the pit and
begins to sell. He sells every share "the
SYSTEMS" brokers Will take, and pounds
the price down and down until failures
are of momentary occurrence and "the
system" has lost millions. He has made
g-aIllions for Beulah Sands and her father.
CHAPTER vI-Beulah Sands insists
upon being assured that there is no dis
honor connected with the money he has
made for her, and he cannot honestly an
swer no" He leaves her to think it
out. When he returns he finds her star
ing at the glarng headlines of nrwspa-
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 Brownley marries
beautiful, insane Beulah Sands, and takes
her to Virginia. The sight of the old
home does not restore her reason, and
he returns with her to New York and
builds 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.
He always opposes the System" His
every appearance on the floor of the ex-
after time he has the street seemingly
at his mercy, but relents before the great
crash comes.
/ CHAPTER K.
The instant after the gong sounded
Bob BROMLEY was alone on the floor
at the foot of the presidents desk.
His form was swaying like a reed on
the edge of the cyclones path. l
jumped to his side. His brother, who
had during Bob's harangue been vain
ly endeayoring to beat his way
through the crowd, was there first.
For Gods sake, Bob, hear me. Word
came from your house half an hour
ago of the miracle: Beulah has awak-
ened to her past Her mind is clear;
the nurses are frantic for you to come
to her."
He got no further With a mad bel
low and a bound, like a tortured bull
that sees the arena walls go down, Bob
rushed out through the nearest door,
which l thanked God, was a side one
leading to the street where the crowd
was thinnest. He cast a wild hook
around. His eyes lighted on an empty
automobile whose chauffeur had de-
serted to the crowd. 1t was the work
of second to crank it; of another to
Jump into the front seat. Quick as
had been his movement, l was behind
him in the rear seat. With a bound
the great machine leaped through the
crowd.
"In the name of Christ, Bob, be care,
full" / yelled as he hurled the iron
monster through the throng, scatter
ing it to the right and left as the
mower scatters the sheaves in the
wheat fields. Some were crushed be-
meath its wheels. Bob BROMLEY heard
not their screams, heard not the
curses Of those who escaped. He was
on his feet, his body crouched low
over the steering wheel, which he
grasped in his vice-like hands. His
lhatless head was thrust far out, as
Though IL stroye to get to Beulah
sands ahead Of his body. His teeth