The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-27
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER bob BROMLEY creates a
panic in Wall street. He Is a friend of
Jim Randolph of Randolph & Randolph.
bankers and brokers. Brownley and RAN
dolph had gone to college together and
entered .he employ of Randolph's father
at the close of college days. Brownley
is a Virginian by BIRTH Beulah Sands.
daughter of an old Virginia house, calls
on Brownley and tells him her father
has been practically ruined by the stock
operations of Reinhart. 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 Off re that she may
have an opportunity to better understand
how her money is invested She does not
want it used in a purely Wall street
gamble, but in the buying and selling of
legitimate securities. Brownley agrees to
helm herr Ell falls in love with her.
Three months Of the six had now
passed, and with each day thought ]
noted an increasing anxiety in Bob.
He had opened special account for
Miss Sands on the books of the house
in his name as agent, with credit of
100000, and we both watched it with
a painful tenseness of scrutiny. 1t
had grown by uneven jerks, until the
balance on October l was almost
100000. On some of the trades Bob
had consulted me, and on others, two
in particular where he closed up after
few days operations with nearly
100000 profit, did not even know
what the trading was based on until
the stocks had been sold. Then he
said:
Jim, that little lady from Virginia
can give us big handicap and play
us to standstill at our own game.
She told me to buy all the Burlington
and Sugar her account would stand,
and did not even ask my opinion. In
both cases l thought the operations
were more the result of wakeful
night, and an Understanding de.
cision than anything else, and l tack
led both with SILVER; but when she
told me to sell them out at time
thought they looked like going high
er, and the next day they slumped
could not help thinking about the des-
On my part tried to help. On one
occasion, without consulting her,
put her account in on sure thing
underwriting, wherein she stood to
make profit of quarter of a mil.
lion, but when Bob told her what
had done, she insisted with great dig
nifty that her name be withdrawn,
After that neither of us dared help
her to any short cuts. Bob was deep.
~ impressed by her principles, and.
commenting on them, said: Jim, II
al Wall street had q code similar IL
Beulah Sands to hew to in their gam
bles, ours would be fairer and more
manly game, and many of the multi
millionaires would be clerking, while
a lot of the hand-to-mouth traders
would come down town in a new auto
every day in the week. She does moi
believe in stock gambling. She has
worked it out that every dollar one
man make, another loses; that thu
one who makes gives nothing II
return for what he gets away with
dIlu IHdI tuc Juliet lctiOW . lOoo AhdhSs
him and his as miserable as would
robbery to the same amount. Ye
she realizes that she must get bacl
those millions stolen from her father
and is willing to smother her con
science to attempt it, provided sht
takes no unfair advantage of the 9th
er players. The other day she sait
to me: I have decided, because o
my duty to my father, to put away my
prejudice against gambling, but nj
duty to him or to any one else car
justify me in playing with marked
cards. Jim, there is food for refiec
ton for you and me, don't you think?'
l did not argue with him, for, afte
/ that Saturdays outburst, I had mad
up my mind to avoid stirring Bob vi
unnecessarily. Also, had to admit tt
myself that the things he had thel
said had raised some unucomfortabl'
thoughts in me, thoughts that mad