The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-21

Billy" answered tho Privateer.
What can I ever do for your
Come around and SEQ me again Friday
night. after you've seen Margaret. And
don't ask the girl too many questions.
Take my word for 1t that everything
all right"
Next morning Peter Potter took a big
bundle of securities over to the Ninth Ma
tional bank. At the same time he as
sumed in his own name and those of his
associates all the contracts for wheat al
ready bought on margins by Winters and
the others interested in the Fuller wheat
deal That afternoon the national bank
examiner went to work on the books
of the bank. He found everything intact
Old man Wagner read his report in the
papers on Friday morning and rushed
over to the bank to see Winters. He was
received with Icy formally. Relieved of
the awful fear which has crushed him,
Winters went now to the other extreme
He def!ed Wagner to do his worst, and
finally ordered him out of his office. Wag-
ner on whose tough hide a tongue-lash-
ing made no impression, went out quiet
ly Ha realized that he had no proof OF
embezzlement against Winters. He was
certain that the banker must have Sc
cured assistance at the last minute and
made good his shortage. But the con-
temptuous scorn with which Winters had
dismissed his allusion to the desired mar
riage OF his son ranked like a fresh
purn. He determined to turn all his vast
resources to the business Of breaking the
Fuller wheat corner and thus involving
Winters and his hackers in irretrievable
ruin. He was smiling grimly as he walk
ed down La Sale street to his office, and
those who noticed the smile knew that
the old man was about to tighten the
coils on some unfortunate
Peter Potter heard the account of this
interview with a smile. 1t was Just what
he expected, and that evening when Billy
Maginn came in jubilant from his talk
with Margaret he let the boy trihe
deeper into the secret of his plans.
II don't mind telling you, Billy" he
said, that old Ike Wagner, the head of
the beef trust, may have had something
to do with getting Mr.. Winters into his
scrape. Now I've got little argument
of my own on with Mr. Wagner. and you
can help me out. II you will"
Billy Maginn sprang to his feet Tell
me how" he cried enthusiastically.
II am trying to run a corner In wheat
Billy, and Ike Wagner is on the other
side of the fence. He is determined to
land me in the poor house."
What can do?"
"If you follow directions, you can just
about land Mr.. Wagner a knockout
punch In the solar plexus. Here he
handed the young man thin book.
bound in paper and printed In French.
you can read it?'
''Yes, but what on earth Is the thfng?"
He turned the pages curiously. 1T seems
to be a report of the Paris Pasteur in
stitute on a new incubation for small
pox. What's that got to do with Wag-
ner and the wheat deal?"
Billy" said the Privateer. you know
that Wagner commands more ready
money than any manwest of New York.
I'm not fol enough to measure pocket
books with him. We must win this fight
with some other weapons. All you've got
to do is to keep your mouth shut and fol-
low directions
Next day Billy Maginn resigned his po-
sition in the bank aid matriculated at
Rush Medical college, where arrange
ments were made for him to pursue his
studies and experiments along special
lines.
Meanwhile the campaign of Wagner to
break the wheat corner went briskly on.
As Peter Potter had foreseen. the name
of the great packer did not appear at
all during the preliminaries. But the