Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-25

houses with washington wires we're
wildly scrambling for sugar as soon
as It began to Jump. And It certainly
looked as though the shares we're good
for the figures set for them by Bob,
SITS, at which price the Sands profits
would be s1,20O,0OO Bob was beside
himself with joy He dined with Kate
and me, and as I watched him my
heart almost stopped beating at the
thought--"if anything should happen
to upset his plansl" His happiness
was pathetic to witness He was like
a 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 / have been
in for three months, and now--will to-
morrow never come, so l may get into
the whiri and clean up this deal and
send that girl back to her father with
the money! / 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 a marvellous woman. She
has not turned hair to-day. / 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. 1t
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 If 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 invaria'
bly, returning to Beulah Sands and to-
morrow and its saving profits Final
ly, he got to a pitch where it seemed
as though he must take off the lid, and
before Kate or l realized what was
coming he placed himself in front OF
us and said:
Jim, Kate, cannot go into to-mor-
row without telling you something
that neither of you suspect. l must
tell some one, now that everything is
coming out right and that Beulah is to
be saved; and whom can tell but
you, who have been everything to me-?
Il 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,OOO into her
hands and send her home to her IA
Their, then, then, I will tell her l love
her, and Jim, Kate, if 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 an ]
me-" He sank into a chair and tears
rolled down his cheeks. Poor, poor
Bob, strong as a lion in adversely,
hysterical as a woman with victory in
sight.
The next day sugar opened with a
wild rush: "25 900 shares from 140 to
1872" That is the way it came on the
tape, which meant that the crowd
around the sugar-pole was a mob and
that the transactions were so heavy
quick and tangled that no one could
tell to a certainty just what the first
or opening price was; but after the
first lull, after the gong, there were Of
ficially reported transactions aggre
eating $4,000 shares and at prices va
rying from 140 to 1862. was over on
the floor to see the scramble, for il
was noised about long before ter
o'clock that sugar would open wild
and then, too, 1 wanted to be handy il
Bob should need any quick advice.
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