Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-17

If any other man of the crowd had known. Bob's chances of success would have been on par with q Canadian canoeist short-cutting Niagara for Buff falo. Nine-tenths of the stock ex- change game Is not letting your left brain lobe know what race your right Is in until the winning numbers and the also-rans are on the board. If one of those 300 chain-lightning thinkers or any of their 10000 alert associates knew in advance the intentions of . fellow broker, the word would sweep through that crowd with the sureness of uncorked ether. and the other 2ss. at gong strike, would be at each oth. ers' throats for his vitals. and before he knew the game had started would have his bones picked to q vulture- finish cleanness.
 Suddenly, as watched the scene. there rang through the great hall the first sharp stroke of the gong. There were no echoes heard that morning. The metallic voice was yet shaping its command to ''at 'em. you fiends" when from 300 throats burst the wild sound of the stock exchange yell. No other sound in any of the open or hidden places of all nature duplicates the yell of great stock exchange at an exciting opening. It not only fills and refills space, for the volume is terrific, but 1t has an individuality all It's own, coming from the incisive "take-mine- I've-got yours," from the aggressive, almost arrogant ''you-can't-you-won't- have-your-way," the confident by heaven.I.will" individual notes that en. ter into the whole, as they blend with the shrill scream of triumph and the die-away note of disappointment. when the floor men realize their success or their failure. I picked Bob's magnifi. gently resonant voice from the mass 40 for any part of 10000 Sugar." It was this daring bid that struck terror to the bears and filled the bulls with a frenzy of encouragement. Again 1t rang out-"45 for any part of 26,000;" and third time-"50 for any part of 50,000."
 The great crowd was surging all over the room. Hats were smashed and coats were being stripped from their owners backs as though made of paper, and now and then a particular ly frantic buyer or seller would be borne to the floor by the impetus of those who sought to fill his bid or grab his offer. Through all the wild whirl. straight and erect and commanding was the form of Bob. his face cold and expressionless as an iceberg. In five minutes the human mass had worked back to the Sugar pole and there was the inevitable Hull while its members verified"
 could see by the few entries Bob was making on his pad that he had been compelled to buy but little. This meant that his campaign was working smoothly. that he was driving the mar ket up by merely bidding. and that he had the greater part of my 50.000 yet unbought, which in turn meant he could continue to push up the price. or in the event of his opponents at tempting to run 1t down. he would be under the market with big supporting orders. -
 Suddenly the Hull was broken. Bob's voice rang out again-"153 for any part of 10000 Sugar" Again the gam blers closed in and for another five minutes the opening scene was dupli- cated, with only shade less fierce ness. After ten minutes mad trading a mighty burst of sound told that Sugar was 160 bid. Then Bob worked his way out of the crowd, and passing by me fairly hissed, By heaven, Jim, I've got them cinched!"
 went back to the office. In a few minutes Bob without a word strode through my office and Into the little room occupied by Beulah Sands. He closed the door behind him, thing that he had never done before. It was only a minute till he opened 1t and called to me. In his eyes was strange look, look that came from the blend ing of two mighty passions, one joy, the other I could not make out. unless 1t was that soft one. which suppressed love, emerging from terrible uncer- tainty. generates in deep natures and which usually finds vent in. tears. Beulah Sands was a study. Her heart was evidently swaying and tugging with the news Bob had brought her. She must have seen the nearness of release from the torture that had been filling her soul during the past three months. and yet such was the remark. able self-control of the woman. such her noble courage. that she refused to show any outward sign of her feelings She was the reserved. dignifed girl ! I had aver seen her.