The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-02-27
The RoupelI mystery
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saeh capitalists A. would inspire the pub
lie with confidence.
Let mo see," sid the banker. running
/, hls eyes rapidly over Z list which be
held In his hand We have Lfuuelet,
Bopent Of Bousent: the elder Paltois-
hs Il good and Max Raumont says he b
with " In case we get to an issue. The
remainder Of the board must be given to
the dock people. They will. Of course,
expect some representation
TO be SURE acquicsced Chabot, -but
Ne must contrive to have with AZ only
thoae who are open to areuments.r
4es, that i II, my friend; open 40
ersuments echoed the vicomte.
OF your usually persuasive kind" add
ed Chabot. Every man has his price, to
be sure, nowadays"
And always did have. In these times,
commercial enterprises, my dear fellow,
assume proportions of which our ances-
tors never dreamed They were just a
dishonest then, II you call manipulation
dishonesty, which / candidly confess l
dou't-but their ideas were smaller.
Hence the difference. Besides" be added,
laying his hand impressively upon the
others sleeve, this thing must 90
through. | think you, above all others,
are aware of the necessity. The fact is,
my dear, Chabot there have been many
heavy pulls on the Mutual Credit bank
lately. One cannot offer eight per cent on
special deposits and always be sure of
making more by using the depositors'
money. Then there was the dividend on
the Ardennes Charcoal and Peat Com
pany. You know it was never earned !;
but we decided that it would Be best to
pay one"
well, the consequence was you placed
the bonds at par, didn't your"
h AT par to the public, of course, but
Herr Goldstein's commission took the gilt
OF the gingerbread However, he took
them all at eishty-fve 1 could not have
placed them to such good advantage"
The interest comes due on the six
teenth- l suppose it is useless to cross
that bridge until we come to It."
Before the sixteenth this dock COM
pany will be foated The banks profit
on that will more than meet the interest
of the Charcoal and Peat Company
bonds
And if it isn't aoated?' hazarded
Chabot.
If it isn't foated the inevitable crash
will begin, or it can be averted in an
other way, my dear Chabot. about which
| cannot talk at present. But we will not
anticipate evil. Come, you must accom-
pany me to the Bourse this morning. j
have a heavy deal pending, and shall need
your assistance"
As the Vicomte de yaliar and Jules
Chabot left the Office Of the Mutual
Credit and Trust Company a small-sized
man issued from cafe on the opposite
side of the street and walked in an ap-
parently careless and preoccupied manner
in the same direction. He followed them
until they turned into brokers' Office
Presently they came forth again, and in
company with third person continued to
walk in the direction of the Bourse
This third person was Herr Max Gold
stein, one of the shrewdest dealers in Sc
curities in the whole of Paris He was
the broker to whom the vicomte had en-
trusted the sale of the first mortgage
bonds of the Ardennes Charcoal and Peat
Company He was a heavy. thickset fell
low, with little. cunning eyes, which had
been set together as closely as nature
would allow; had not an enormous nose
grown between them, he would perhaps
have had only one large eye in the center.
He had a habit of cooking up his head
when in conversation, and of listening
with his mouth wide opeB; He had com
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