Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-08-01
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER bob BrOwnley creates
panic in Wall street. He Is friend of
Jim Randolph OF Randolph e. Randolph.
bankers and brokers. Brownley and Ran
aoiph had gone to college together and
entered the employ Of Randolph's father
at the close Of college days. BROMLEY
Is q Virgiuian by birth. Beulah Sands.
daughter OF an old Virginia house calls
on BROMLEY aud tells him her father
has been practically ruined by the stock
operations of RelnhaTt. She hopes to
utilize her own money in Wall street In
retrieving her fathers fortunes before
his condition becomes known, and asks
for employment in the office that she may
have an opportunity to better understand
how her money 10 invested. She does not
want II used in a purely Wall street
gamble, but in the buying and selling OF
legitimate securities. BROMLEY agrees to
heIp her, and falls in love with her.
CHAPTER u-Brownley plunges in
sugar stock He useS the money OF Miss
Sands. his own and in addition is backed
heavily by the Randolph millions. His
coup seems successful. and he tells Miss
Sands that she has cleared Sl,S0O,O0O But
the market had not closed.
abe following afternoon the letter
came. 1t showed Judge Sands in a
very nervous, uneasy state. He said
he had been living life Of daily ter
For, as some of his friends, for whose
estates he was trustee, had been re-
ceiVing anonymous letters, advising
them to lool3 into the judges trust af-
fairs that the Reinhart crowd had
been using renewed pressure to make
him let go all his Seaboard stock,
which they wanted to, secure, at the
n y.1 'gh
pressed it, in order that they might re-
organize and carry out the scheme
they had been SO long planning. Judge
Sands went on to say that the day he
was compelled to sell his Ssaboard
stock he would have to make public
an announcement of his condition, as
there could be no sale without the
courts consent, His closing WAS:
My dear daughter no one knows better
than / the almost hepelessness OF expect,
ing any relief from your operations. But
30 hopeless have 1 become of late, so
much am / reliant upon you, my dear
child, and eternal hope SO springs in all
81 US when confronted with great neces-
Sitfes. that have hoped and still hope
that you are to be the savior of your
family; that you. only a frail child, are
through Gods marvellous workings to be
tha one to save the homer of that name
We both love more than life; the one to
keep the wolf of poverty from that doeP
Through which so far has come nothing
but the sunshine of prosperity and hap
plness tho one. my dear Beulah, who 10
60 save your old father from a dishonored
grave. Dear child. forgive me for plac-
ing upon your weak shoulders the addi-
tional burden OF knowing am now help
NAR nd IIAA 20 raj. hnA nUfA al
upon you After you have read my letter.
n there Is no hope, I command you to tell
me 20 at once. for although I am now
OnRAciRlly and almost mentally helpless,
1 am still q Sands, and there has never
yet been one OF the name who Shirked his
duty, however stern and painful 1t might
DO.
When handed the letter back to
Miss Sands. she said:
"Mr. Randolph, let me tell you and
Mr.. BROMLEY a little about my father
and our homo. that you may see our
situation as it is. My father IL one of
the nobleSt men that ever lived. am
not the only one who says thAt-if you
were to ask the people of our state to
name the one man who had done most
for the state az 4 state, most for her
progressive betterment, most for her
people high and low, white and black.
they would answer. Judge Lee Sands
He has been, and Is, the idol OF our
people. After he was graduated from
Harvard, he entered the law once Of
my grandfather. Senator Robert Lee
Sands. Before he was 80 he was in
congress and was even then reputed
the greatest orator of our state, where
orators are so plentiful. He married
my mother, his second cousin, Julia
Lee, of Richmond. at rs, and from
then until the attack of that ruthless
money shark. led a life such as a true
man would map out for himself II his
Maker granted him the privilege. You
would have to visit at our home to APP
preciate my fathers character and to
understand how terrible this sorrow is
20 him. Every morning Of his life he
spends an hour after breakfast with
my dear mother. who Is a cripple from
hip disease. He takes her in his arms
and brings her down from her room to
the library AZ II she were q child. He
then reads to her--Rnd he knows good
books as we'll as he knows his friends.
After he takes mother back to her
room, he gives an hour to our people
the blacks Of the plantation and his
white tenants throughout the county,
He is a father to them all. He settles
all their troubles. big and little. Then
for hours he and 20 over his business
anAirs. Every afternoon from four to
AV0 he deVotOa to his estates AAd the