The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-06-01

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| said to him: I'm afraid you might
easier succeed in reducing my chest
measure" But we worked away at
1t, and perhaps my readers may dis
cover even in this narrative. though
1t ~ necessarily egotisuc. evidence of
at least an honest effort not to be
BADLY boastful. Monson would have
liked to maze of me a self.deprecatipg
sort of person-such as he himself,
with the result that the other fellow
always got the prize and he got left.
But would have none of 1t.
All this time | was giving myself
or thought was giving myself
chiefly to my business as usual.
know now that the new interest had
In fact crowded the things down town
far into the background had impaired
my Judgment, had suspended my COM
mon sense; but | had no inkling of
this then. The most important mat
ter that was occupying me down town
was pushing textile up toward par.
Langdon's doubts. little though they
influenced me, still made enough of an
impression to cause me to test the
market. | sold for him at ninety, as
he had directed; | sold in quantity
every day. But no matter how much
| unloaded. the price showed no ten.
dency to break.
This" said to myself, lis a testi-
monial to the skill with which | pre-
pared for my bull campaign" And
that seemed to me-all unsuspicious
as then was--a sufficient explanation
OF the steadiness of the stock which
had worked to establish in the public
confidence.
/ f,lt that, IL my matrimonial plans
should turn out as I confidently ex.
pected, l should need much larger
fortune than | had-for | was deter.
mined that my wife should have an
establishment second to none. Ac.
cordingly, ] enlarged my original
plan. had intended to keep close to
Langdon in that plunge; believed I
controlled the market, but l hadn't
been in Wall street twenty years with
out learning that the worst thunder
bolts fall from cloudless skies. With
out being in the least suspicious of
Langdon, and simply ing on the
general principle that surprise and
treachery are part of the code of high
finance, had prepared to guard, first,
against being taken in the rear by a
secret change of plan on Langdon's
part, and second. against being in
volved and overwhelmed by sudden
secret attack on him from some asso-
| nf 10 yryhn mi oh int hn had
laid himself open to successful raid
ing.
The market Is especially dangerous
toward Christmas and in the spring
toward Christmas the big fellows oft
en- juggle the stocks to get the money
for their big Christmas gifts and
aims: toward spring the motive is, Of
course, the extra summer expenses of
their families and the commencement
the spring
| say, l had intended to be cautious.
abandoned caution and rushed In
boldly, feeling that the market was,
in general, safe and that textile was
under my control--and that was one
Of the kings of high finance. with my
lucky star in the zenith. decided to
continue my bull campaign on my own
account for two weeks after had I'M
loaded for Langdon, to continue IL un.
til the stock was at par. / had no
difficulty in pushing 1t to ninety-seven,
and was not alarmed when l found
myself loaded up with 1t, quoted at
ninety.eight for the preferred and
thirty for the common. l assumed
that | was practically its only sup.
porter and that 1t would slowly settle
back as | slowly withdrew my sup
port.
To my surprise. the stock did not
yield Immediately under my efforts to
depress 1t. sold more heavily; tex
tile continued to show a tendency to
rise. sold still more heavily; 1t
broke a point or two, then steadied
and rose again. Instead of sending
out along my secret lines for inside
information, as / should have done,
and would have done had | not been
in state of hypnotized Judgment
went to Langdon! | who had been
studying those scoundrels for twenty.
odd years, and dealing directly with
and for them for ten years!
4 He wasn't at his Office; they told
I me there that they didn't know
I whether he was at his town house or
I at his place in the country-"prob.
ably in the country" said his down
: town secretary, with elaborate care
lessness. He wouldn't be likely to
stay away from the Office or not to
I send for me, If he were In town, would
he?"
1t takes an uncommon good liar to
lie to me when I'm on the alert. AS
was determined to see Lnngdon, was
in so far on the alert. and | felt the
fellow was lying. That's reasonable, y
said I. Call me up, II you hear from
him. l want to see him-important
but not immediate" And | went away
/ having left the impression that
would make no further effort