The Appeal., 1908-11-28

trait Of his character. From no one
knows where they enlisted the serv.
ices of as pretty a woman as ever
rode down Fifth avenue
In a few days she appeared at the
MOTEL in which the great capitalist
made his home. She was beautiful
enough to be conspicuous in any com
pany-difden enough to make he1
attraceiveness compelling. She neithe,
sought nor declined introductions tc
others, passing her time as any well
| bred woman in affluent circumstances
might wish to do. AS good an auto
mobile as is made in France took he1
from and to the hotel. And the ca,
! bore her monogram. F..
Her life in this hotel was destined
to be marked by two great days, anc
1t was six months before the first one
came. On that day she was intro
| duced to the man en- account of whom
some one had bought all her fashiona
bic gowns and=asfrery, her motor cal
and paid her hoteI bills. She chatted
with him for ten minutes and ther
babe him good evening, just as his in
terest in her was ascending by leaps
| and bounds. The next day he asked
her to ride with him through the park
and she politely declined. ~
For three months this handsome
young feminine person played with
this wise gentleman in much the same
manner that a cat would toy with g
mouse it intended ultimately to eat
Little by little she let it be known
she was widow. Reared by an in
dulgent father, all she had known
about money was that it was made in
the mint and her papa got it. Nor die
her husband force upon her more
: definite knowledge Of the manner ir
which dollar bills are nursed into tens
and tens into hundreds.
Where "Advice"6 Was Not Taken.
Then death came upon their happy
home, and in a twinl1ling the respon
! slbilities of large fortune were
thrust upon her. She disliked these
burdens. So. She was never trained
to bear them, she had neither aptitude
nor liking for such tasks, and she was
in constant fear of tumbling into pit.
falls.
The gentleman was duly sympathet,
ic. To the best Of his limited ability
he would at any time instruct her.
Was she at that time contemplating
any investment ABOUT which he might
enlighten her? She was not.
This woman knew what to door,
rather she had been told what to do.
Her employers wished to know
whether it was her intention of the
gentleman to force a certain stock to
a still higher figure was then high
Or to let it sag back. She bided
her time until she believed the right
moment had come and then edged
around to the subject. A transaction
that need not be entered into here
had, left her several thousand dollars
which she desired to reinvest. Would
the gentleman advise her to buy stock
in his big concern at it's present high
price?
He ought to have known better, but
he didn't. He ''fell'' for the |'wid-
ow's'' query without a premonition of
danger. And he told her only what
he honestly believed, but what he
knew to be true. The price of the
stock was to be slaughtered in a few
weeks.
She thanked him and did not invest.
Neither did her employers. More than
that, they sold what they did have.
And what they saved by getting out
while the price was high made the
cost of paying the "widow's' expenses
for six months look like a rain check
beside thousand dollar bill.
Another business man sent mes
senger to request the chief of a pri-
vate detective agency to call on him.
'T want to find OUT said he, "what
So-and-So is going to do with such
and-such a property. He is the hard
est man in the world to get any in
formation from. But he's got a daugh-
ter who can talk like a phonograph.
Furthermore, I think that girl Of his
knows what he's up to all the time.
AS nearly as I can find out she's the
only one he confides in-she winds
him around her finger if she wants to-.
'Now, what I want you to do is
this: There are a 10 of young men
without much means in this town
whose social position is just as good
as So-and-So's and his daughters. I
consent to go on this case. I'll put up
all the money he needs to make good
with the girl. And want you to have
him go after her as if she were the
only girl he had ever loved. If he has
to let him even propose to her-he
needn't marry her if he doesn't want
to-but if she has the information
want he must get it,
The chief politely declined, and the
! case went elsewhere, if it went any
whore