The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-24


to restore public confidence.
Il would buy more he said, freely,
'and make my fortune; only. as L was
one of those who happened To spend
| last night at Sir Adolphus', people
might think / helped to spread the
rumor and produce the slump in order
/ to buy in at panic rates for my own
advantage. So / shall only buy up just
enough, now and again. to let people
see 1, at least have no doubt as to
| the firm future of Cleotedorps."
He went home that night more ha-
raised and ill than l have ever seen
him Next day was as bad. The slump
continued with varying episodes. Now
rumor would surge up that Sir Adolf
plus had declared the whole affair a
sham, and prices would steady little:
now, another would break out that the
diamofads were actually being put upon
the market in Berlin by the cart load,
and timid old ladies would wire down
to their brokers to realize offhand at
whatever hazard. 1t was an awful day.
shall never forget it.
| The morning after, as if by miracle,
! things Tighted themselves of a sudden.
| While we were wondering what it
meant Charles received a telegram
from Sir Adolphus COrdery:
The man is a fraud. Not Schleier-
macher at all. Just had a wire from
jena saying the professor knows moth
ing about him. Sorry Internationally
| to have caused you trouble. Come
round and see me-"
Sorry unintentionally to have
caused you trouble" Charles was be-
side himself with anger. Sir Adolphus
had upset the share market for forty
eight mortal hours, half ruined a round
dozen of wealthy operators, cOnVulsed
| the city. upheaVed the house, and now
he apologiZed for it as one might
apologize for being late ten minutes
for dinner! Charles jumped into ham
som and rushed round to see him. How
| had he dared TO introduce the UnpostOr
to solid men as Professor Schleier-
macher? Sir Adolphus shrugged his
shoulders. The fellow had cCme and
| introduced himself as lie great Jena
chemist; he had long, white hair, and
a stoop in the shoulders. What reason
had he for doubling his work? Il re-
| Elected to myself that on much the
same grounds Charles in turn had ac-
cepted the Hon. David Granton and
Graf Won Lebenstein.) Besides, what
object could the creature have for his
extraordinary deception: Charles knew
only too well. 1t was clear It was done
! to disturb the diamond market, and
we realized. too late, that the man who
| had done it Was-Colonel Clay, in an
other of his manifold allOtropic I'm
| bodimentsr' Charles had had his WISH
and had met his enemy once more in
| London!
| We could see the whole plot. Colonel
| Clay was polymOrphic, like the element
carbOni Doubtless, with his eXtraOT-
binary sleight of hand, he had substi-
tuted real diamonds for the shapcless
mass that had come out of the appa-
ratus in the interval between handing
the pebbles round for inspection, and
distributing them piecemeai tC the men
of science and representatives of the
diamond interest. We all watched him
closely. of course, when he opened the
crucibles; but when once we had
satisfied ourselves that some
thing came out our doubts were
set at rest, ard we forgot
to watch whether he distributed those
something's or not TO the recipients.
! ConjurOrs always depend upon such
momentary distractions or iapses of
attention. AS usual, too, the profess
] SOr had disappeared into space the mo-
ment his trick was once we'll perform
ed. He vanished like smoke as the
count and seer had vanished before,
and was never again heard Of.
! Charles went home more angry than
| I have ever beheid him. l couldn't
/ imagine why. He seemed as deeply
/ hipped as if he had lost his thousands.
1 endeavored to console him.
after ALL 1 said, though Gclcon-
das have suffered a temporary loss, it's
a comfort to think that you should
have stood so firm, and not only
stemmed the tide. but also prevented
yourself from losing anything at all of
/ your own through panic. I'm sorry, OF
course, for the widows and orphans;
but if Colonel Clay has rugged the
market, at least it isn't you who lose
| by it this time"
Charles withered me with a fierce
| scOwl of undisguised contempt
Wentworth" he said once more.
to silence.
But you declined to sell out" said.
! He gazed at me fixedly.
| rs it likely" he asked at last, Il
would tell you if I meant to sell out,
or that I'd sell out openly through Fin
| glemOre, my usual broker? Why, all
| the world would have known, and Col
condas would have been finished. AS
| it is, l don't desire to tell an ass like
| you exactly how much I've lost. But
l did sell out, and some unknown Oper-
dlOI DOuSuI III DIT ONCE, anu ClDS6u IOE
ready money, and has sold again this
morning; and after all that has hap
| pened, it will be impossible to track
| him. He didn't wait for the account;
he settled up instantly. And he sold in
| like manner / know now what has
| been done, and how cleverly it has all
| been disguised and covered; but the
most I'm going to tell you today is just
| this-it's by far the biggest haul Colo
/ mel Clay has made out of me- He could
retire on it if he liked. My one hope
is, it may satisfy him for life; but,
| then, no man has ever had CROUCH of
making money"
You sold OUT" / exclaimed. you
the chairman of the company? You
deserted the ship, And how about the
/ trust? How about the widows and or
phans cOnfided to yOu?'
Charles rose and faced me.
Seymour Wentworth" he said in
his rlOst solemn voice, you have lived
with me for years ard had every ad-
vantage. You have seen high finance
yet you ask me that question. It's my
belief YOU will never. never understand
business"
Copyright. 1907. by w. G. Chapman.
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