The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-04-11

himself with Joy. He dIned with Kate
and me, and as watched him my
heart almost stopped beating at the
thought-'if anything should happen
to upset his plsns!" His happiness
was pathetic to witness. He was like
. child. He threw away all the reserve
Of the past three months and laughed
and was grave by turns After din.
ner, as we sat in the library over our
coffee. he leaned over to my wife and
said:
Katherine Randolph, you and Jim
don't know what misery I have been
In for three months, and now--will to.
morrow never, come, so / may get into
the whirl and clean up this deal and
send that girl back to her father with
the money! l wanted her to tele-
graph the Judge that things looked
like she would win out and bring back
the relief, but she would not hear OF
1t. She is marvellous woman. She
has not turned hair to-day. I don't
think her pulse is up an eighth to-
night. She has not sent home word
Of encouragement since she has been
here, more than to tell her father she
is doing we'll with her stories. It
seems they both agreed the only way
to work the thing out was whole
hog or none. and that she was to say
nothing until she could herself bring
the word saved or lost don't know
but she is right. She says II she
should raise her fathers hopes, and
then be compelled TO dash them, the
effect would be fatal"
Bob rushed the talk along. fitting
from one point to another, but invEria.
bly, returning to Beulah Sands and to-
morrow and its saving profits. Final
ly, he got to pitch where It seemed
as though he must take of the lid, and
before Kate or / realized what was
coming he placed himself in front of
us and said:
Jim, Kate, cannot 60 into to.mor.
row without telling you something
that neither Of you suspect. | must
tell some one, now that everything is
coming out right and that Beulah is to
be saved; and whom can l tell but
you, who have been everything to me !?
i love Beulah Sands, surely, deeply
with every bit of me. l worship her
tell you, and tomorrow, tomorrow II
this deal comes out as it must come
and l can put $1,500,000 into her
hands and send her home to her fa'
ther, then, then, will tell her love
her, and Jim, Kate, II she'll marry me
good-by, good-by to this hell of dollar
hunting, good-by to such misery as
have been in for three months. and
home, Virginia home, for Beulah and
me-" He sank into a chair and tears
rolled down his cheeks. Poor, poor
Bob, strong as lion in adversely
hysterical as q woman with victory In
sight.
The next day sugar opened with 9
wild rush: $4,000 shares from 140 tc
1872" That Is the way 1t came on the
tape, which meant that the Grove
around the sugar-pole was a mob an(
that the transactions were SO heavy
quick and tangled that no one coult
tell to a certainty just what the frs
or opening price was; but after tn.
first lull, after the gong, there were of
6cially reported transactions aggre
eating $4,000 shares and at prices va
rying from 140 to 152. was over or
the floor to see the scramble. for 1,
was noised about long before ter
o'clock that sugar would .open wild
and then, too, wanted to be handy II
Bob should need any quick advice.
A minute before the gong struck
there were 300 men jammed around
the sugar-pole; men with set, deter
mined faces; men with their coats
buttoned tight and shoulders thrown
back for the rush to which, by com
parison, that OF a football team Il
child's play, Every man in tha
crowd was picked man, picked fo
what was coming. Each felt tha
upon his individual powers to keep
clear head. to shout loudest to forge
nothing to keep his feet, and to sta.
as near the center of the crowd as pos
sible, depended his floor honor" per
haps his fortune. or, what was NOR,
to him, his clients fortune. Nearl,
every man Of them was q colleg,
graduate who had won his spurs a
athletics or a seasoned floor maj
whose training had been even NOR,
severe than that of the college camp
us. When 1t was known before tn,
opening OF the exchange that there ar
to be things doing" in certain
stock, II is the rule to send only tn
picked fioor men into the crowd
There may be fortune to make or L
lose in a minute or silver of min
ute. For instance. the man who tina
morning was able to snatch the frs
5000 shares sold at 140 could hav
resold them few minutes afterwar
at 1852 and secured $4,000 profit. An
the man who was sent into the crow
by his client to sell 5000 shares at tn
Opening" and who got but 14O, whe
the price would be 152 by the time h
reported to his customer, was a ma
to be pitied. Again, the trader VIII
the night before had decided tina
sugar had gone up too fast. and VIII
had "shorted" (that Is, sold what h
did not have, with the intention of r,