The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1907-07-18
CHAPTER lI.-contInued.


that Saturdays outburst, I had made
up my mind to avoid stirring Bob up
unnecessarily. Also. i had to admit to
myself that the things he had then
said had raised some uncomfortable
thoughts in me, thoughts that made
me glance less confidently now and
then at the old sign of Randolph &
Randolph and at the big ledger which
showed that /, an ordinary citizen Of
free country, was the absolute pos
SCISSOR Of more money than hundred
thousand of my fellow beings together
could accumulated in lifetime, al
though each had worked harder, long
er, more conscientiously, and with
perhaps more ability than l.
AS to how Beulah Sands code had
affected my friend, / was ignorant.
For the first time in our association l
was completely,in the dark as to what
he was doing stockwise. Up to that
Saturday / was the first to whom he
would rush for congratulations when
he struck it rich over others on the
exchange, and he invariably sought me
for consolation when the boys upper
cut him hard" as he would put 1t.
Now he never said word about his
trading. ! saw that his account, with
the house was inactive, that his bal
ance was about the same as before
Miss Sands advent, and I came to
the conclusion that he was resting on
his oars and giving his undivided at
tention to her account and the exc
cution of his commissions. His hand.
ling of the business of the house show
ed no change. He still was the best
broker on the floor. However, know.
ing Bob as I did, could not get 1t
out of my mind that his brain was
running like mill-race in search of
some successful solution Of the tre-
mendous problem that must be solved
in the next three months.
Shortly after the October 1 state
ments had been sent out, Bob dropped
in on Kate and me one night. After
she had retired and we had lit our
cigars in the library he said:
Jim, / want some of that old-fash-
Toned advice Of yours. Sugar is sell
ing at 10, and it is worth it; in fact
1t is cheap. The stock is we'll distrib-
uted among investors. not much OF
1t floating round the street. A good
big buying movement, we'll handled,
would Jump it to ITS and keep 1t there.
Am / sound?"
agreed with him.
"All right. Now what reason is
there for good, big, stiff uplift? That
tariff bill is up at Washington. II II
goes through. sugar will be cheaper
at IT'S than at no." A. -
Again l agreed. sa 5,H~
Standard Oil and the sugar peo
pie know whether 1t is going through
for they control the senate and the
house and can induce the president tl
be good. What do you say to that?'
20. H." j answered.
mo question about 1t, Is there?"
mot. the slightest"
Right again. When 26 Broadway
gives the secret order to the Washing
ton boss and he passes it. out. to thu
grafters. there will be quiet accumu
lation of the stock, won't there?"
you've got that right, Bob"
"And the man who first knows wler
Washington begins to take on sugar l,
the man who should load up quicl
and rush 1t up to high level. II h,
does it quickly. the stockholders, VIII.
now have It, will get.a Juicy, slice o
the ripening melon, slice that other
wise would go to those greedy hypo
critics at Washington, who are Away
publicly proclaiming that they ar,
there to serve their fellow country
men, but who never tire Of expressing
themselves to their brokers as not be
ing in politics for their health"
$50 far, good reasoning" com
mented.
Jim, the man who first knows whel
the senators and congressman an,
members of the cabinet begin to bu
sugar, Is the man who can kill fou
birds with one stone: Win back
part of Judge Sands stolen fortune
increase his own little pile against tn
nrst of January, when, If the little Vii
ginian lady is short few hundre
thousand of the necessary amount, b
could, II he found way to induce he
to accept 1t, supply the deficiency
fatten up good friends bank accoun
million or 80. and do right goo
turn for the stockholders who ar
about to be, for the hundredth timt
bled out of profit rightfuily theirst
Bob was afire with enthusiasm, tn
first l had seen. him show for tire
.~.~~ty,s 1aairu thotT hod fo1l0uvo