Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-01-03

If you wont misunderstood me-.
she answered. I'll confess to you my
instinct has been telling me that. too.
I'm not so bad as YOU must THINK. 1
did bargain to sell myself. but I'd have
thrown up the bargain if YOU had been
as-as you seemed at first For some
reason-perhaps 1t was her dress. or
hat-she was looking particularly girl
ish that day. and her skin was even
more transparent han usual. You're
different from he mel I've been used
to all my life" she went on. md
smiling In Il friendly way-"you often
give me q terrifying sense of your be-
ing IA wild man ON his good be
havior. But I've come to feel that
you're generous and unseltish and that
you'll be kind to me-won't you? And
/ must make a life for myself must
Il must. OH, l can't explain to you,
out" She turned her little head
toward me. and l was looking into
those eyes that the flowers We're like.
thought she meant her home life.
"You needn't tell me l said, and I'll
have to confess my voice was ANYTHING
put steady. And, 1 repeat, you'll new
er regret"
She evidently feared that she had
said too much. for she lapsed into 81
lence, and when l tried to resume the
subject of ourselves. she me
with painful conStraint- 1 respected
her and sson began to
idlh VI liIS " ~ Ni'Vi' 49,
Again. my mistake of treating her as
IL she We're marked Fragile. Handle
with care" 1 know now that she, like
all women. had the plain. tough, dur
able human fiber under that exterior
of delicacy and %fragility, and that my
overconsideralion caused her to eNag-
gerate to herself her own preposterous
notions of her superior iineness. We
walked for All hour. talking with less
constraint and more friendliness than
r1.n,. 1.,fn,. at,J uhnn l loft hpY 1 for
the first time, felt that l had left Il
good impression.
When j entered my office, ]. from
force OF habit. mechanically went d.
rect to the ticker-and dropped All III
an instant from the pinnacle of heaven
into q boiling inferno. For the ticker
was Just spelling out these words:
"Mowbray Langdon. president of the
Textile association, sailed unexpectedly
on the Kaiser Wilhelm at noon. A =
per cent. raise of the dividend rate of
Textile common. from the present 4
per cent. to 6. has been determined up
on"
And I had staked up to. perhaps be
You'd. my limit of SAFETY that Textile
would fall!
Ball was watching narrowly for some
sign that The news was as bad as he
feared. But 1T cost me no effort to
keep my face expresslonless 1 was
like a man who has been killed by
lightning and lies dead with the look
on his face tina he had just before
the bolt struck him. -.
why didn't you tell me this" said
to Ball. when l had you on the
'phone?' My tone was quiet enough
but the very question ought to have
shown hiln that my brain was like a
schooner in n cyclone.
I'VE heard il just after you rang
off," was his reply. We've been trying
TO get you ever since. I've gone every
where after Textile stock. Very few
will sell. or even lend, and they ask
the best price was ten points above to-
days closing. a strong tips out thai
Textiles are to be rocketed."
Ten points up already-on h mere
rumor! Already $40 to pay ON every
share L was 'short"-and | short more
than 2OO.Go0! / felt the claws of th'
fiend Ruin sink into the flesh of IN.
shoulders. Ball doesn't know how
I'm fixed" I remember l thought. "ant
he mustn't know"
L lit a cigar with a steady hand an'
waited for Joe's next words.
Il went tn see Jenkins at once" h
went on. jenkins was then first, vic
president of the Textile trust. He
All cut up because the news got tut
says Langdon and he We're the "nl
ones who knew. so he supposed-say
The announcement wasn't to have bee
made for a month-not till Langdo'
returned. He has had to confirm il
..hough. That was the only way t
free his crowd from suspicion OF IN
tending to rig the market.
"All right" said l..
.Haye YOU seen the afternoon pa
per7" he asked. AS he held 1t out I
me, my eye caught big Textile head
lines. then flashed to some others
something about my going to MARI
Miss Ellersly.
..An right" said !. and with the pa
GER in my hand. went to my outsid
office. I kept on toward my inner OF
fee. saying over my shoulder-to IN
st~enographer: n ht ,e ha an n;osea a ~
locked door my body ~ventured TO con
to life again and my face to reflect t
much as it could of the chaos that w
heaving in me like ten thousand wal
ring devils.
situation. my gamblers instinct Won
probably have helped me out. For
had not been gambling I'm the gre;
American Monte Carlo all those yea
without getting used to the downs
well as to the ups. l had not--ar
nave n~ot-anything of the busine'
man in my composition. To me.
was wholly finance. wholly n gam
with excitement the chief factor az
the sure winning. whether the hit
ball rolled my way or not. l was II
anancier the gambler and adventure
and that had been my principal asst
For. the man who wins in the long IL
ut any of the great games of lfe-ai
they are all alike-is the man with Il
cool head; and the only man VINO
head is cool is he who plays for u
games sake, not caring greatly whetl
ar he wins or loses on any one pla
because he feels that il he wins t
day, he will lose tomorrow; If he los
TODAY, he will win tomorrow. But nc
a new factor had come into the gan
{ spread out the paper and stared
fha headlines. BLACK Matt To w