Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-09


why, you &c positively thin, She tod HIM
lie crew the ;''usy ;5 paid March6ank the Thousand
tat afternoon and dined at Gouets and saw Gc,ruGe
Ioili'ST IN Sidney B-voks tragedy, The Despair 81
about
4 was thinking Of tina, thousand" Miriam said
The sneNt day Tripres went 80 20 ami Elphinstone
PIT up his last thQisanj
Three weeks later ne took his profits hundred
Only six hundred AID hir4- dollars" Mir;or, ON
pained: and You riSket three THOUSAND OIL It's.
Elphinstonc smiled 4sx hundred aud thirty on
But you're right; Next time woa't sail oui-e SO
close TO the wind Though IT was safe, ana si,a-
hank knew and | knew that Il oyrlart 20 b-oT 20.
That was as rs fate .,rd Ii didr.'.
Miriam was reading the quotation. Oh Inn she
exclaimed IF YOU had held qu, til to-day YOU woc'
have made twelve hundred instead of six hundr,j.
He locked with steadSed lie smiled You
don't take chances. ! take small profits. tax s9'sl
That's the real Waii Street "a
Ephinstone knew. rs was quite right about it. 1t
was not lottery in which he was engaging; it was a
business. And all took time His rripper deal hal
covered only three weeks But safe stocks which he
year he found that he had made Bit over i've
thou. and dollar And he knew that with double his
Well sell the house" he said TO Miriam
us" he INSISTED ygBcres money in it" g.,
Elphinstonc smiled They were hitting the pace at
last An, apartment in the Ataaua.' he returned
Sue Sasped again. TIE Atalauta the apartment
house IL the big oversrown Jersey town which thy
iiYe1 The Atalanta meant rents from 81 200 10
800 year. 1t meant moro. Ii meant po-
y sitIon in society.
This was the, commencement in earnest Of their
play 1t was the beginning OF the lure the lazy
ii upon them both Elphinstone began to dress
yt'y well He rose at eight in the morning lie
suon of tho Wall Street men as lived in his town
John c. Byrne, Daniel rKeogh and Ormsby the local
that .hese men were worth while. And they began 10
tnd out that l.lphinstonc worth while Ilc was
mcni His opinion was avays safe and sou,o C,ns}'y
the loca banker came TO depend upon i, amos, ~
Buy this" lsiphirslcne would SAY or sell that
Ana nc was a'"2ys right because he always sure
Ahead OF hm was still HI, AMBITION though enlarged
ne thought perhaps that he would die worth hrdrcd
he had followed Narc6ban>: :,.c. ' re a cn"g
to TsI Stree; IT nd become lbs business. Every
in to sse y ods @'S 3y vas beam Gne e lopo
Gee said lilly Ga man, you're getting hin"
, 8'y 70 oo'Hfr INC aver Of ms desk What 70 yo''
OF the fact that bil Ods had saved Two thousand five
hundred doI';rs cold, hard cssb.
brow ps the tss sss os 90 1 sS e,U % e w''nf s s
= house, and tot. lie frow"sd. "PcTaps' y, Aids,
oq his way home Elptiasione smiled. Twcnty five
hundred collars seemed Sd .'i&n: 20 him now. True,
lid lad couo.c OF loss.s %. Tat ,y ,,,@.anS
i.salf was making 7;n SIX thousand -sr scei s. &c
'tta1y money and IN year or sc--vef, Re ~sjF =
:, 1t the fourth winter that he wa taken sick
Nervous strain h, physician said lie lost about
he-we'' that vas part II tne 49, rf,. to-. Put
L didn't rest vel il the south fe wanted to go
MY money i,rt w,caing whcn I'm away" he would
II was the follc,inp v1ac hat t,.,, f,,,ott ,.: