The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-20


 Tolliver in Sidney Brooks tragedy The Despair of Lady Whitesde.' When 1t neither Miriam her husband could tell the other what it was all about
 T was thinking of that thousand" Miriam said.
 The next day Trpper to 70 and Elphinstone put up his last thousand.
 Three weeks later he took his prohts-sx hundred Only si, hundred and thirty dollars" Miriam com plained, and you rsked three thousand. And all that
 Elphinstone smiled. "Six hundred and thirty on three thousand in three weeks isn't bad. my dear. But you're right Next time I won't sail quite close to the wind Though it was safe, and March bank knew, and l knew that it couldn't go below 70
 Miriam was reading the quotations. aoh, Jim" she exclaimed, If you had held out till to-day you would hoo haSd made twelve hundred instead 0f SIX hundred
 He looked, with steadied nerves. He smiled, 'You are thinking 45 Of the Pubes @ a7 Wal ] Street he ss said Iisks-or shall hereafter And watch the market That's the real Wall Street"
 business And it all took time His F Frpper deal had dealt often didn't move for months. At the end of year he found u1,d that he had made bit @ oyer five i've margin he could double his money.
 Well sell the house." he said to Miriam.
 "Whatp she gaspcd.
 Yes he insisted; There's money in it"
 'Where shall we go?"
 last An, apartment in the Atalanta." he returned She gasped again. The Atalanta the apartment house in the big overgrown Jersey town in which they lived The Atalanta meant rents at from $I,2oo to $I,5oo year. It meant more It meant po- sition in society.
 This the. commencement, in earnest, of their play; the beginning of case the lure of the lazy life upon them both. Elphinstone began to dress very we'll He rose at eight in the morning. He such of the Wall Street lived in his town, bae1 R mss ro7 qa%s hs en that these were worth while. And they began to md thevC final Nv fC hgs ffdU ment His opinion was always safe and sound Ormsby, the local banker, came to depend it almost en
 Buy this." E1phinstone would say, "or sell that" And he was always right because he always sure Ahead of him was still his ambition though enlarged He thought perhaps that he would die worth hundred he had followed Marchbank's advice. He had c1ung to Wall Street; it had become his business. Every in see Billy o Billy ws There ws
 aGeeI" said Billy. "old man, you're getting thin"
 You're not" ventured Elphinstone
 think Jim; he said, ajust. look at that.
 It savings bank book And it was evidence of the fact that Bill Ods had saved thousand five hundred dollars cold, hard cash.
 brow with the pleasure of it; .and some day Iii buy house and lot He drowned Perhaps" he added On his way home E1phinstone smiled Twenty-Five hundred dollars seemed so trhing to him now. True had had couple of losses. But that six thousand itself making him six thousand year good, safe steady money, and in year or so-wel, he would see Tt was the fourth winter that he taken sick Nervous strain, his physician said He lost about he didn't rest well in the South He wanted want to get back to Wall Street.
 My money isn't working when I'm away" he would say to Miriam.
 Miriam didn't splurge. They had no overweening soc social smbitiGns They went aT9und little and went. Billy kept him posted night. He flushed. "Its ridiculous" he went on. T now just about where you six years ago. Jim Well, suppose it's up to people to be stupid, some to be clever Some of us have got work for
 Ephnsone laughed eet your lpe money aosy H' to work Billy he advised Billy only sighed and shook his head ad I'm T not not clever, he admitted 4shn
 home one night. now that we've got our motor car, the e,IH next thing is that trip to Europe" We've been going to take that for the last twelve years,'' assented Ephnsone, "and we'll take it. It'll cost about two three thousand, and just soon
 CT thought we could do it for thousand" answered Miriam.
 do Palm Beach for thousand. Yes I'll make little
 ks 5 day ne and M Ms m take sd that it 1p rip a He laughed
 Miriam sighed Then well just lean back and live,' she said. She too, was tired. She was excited She watched Wall Street. She made fortunes and unmade them, in her mental speculations boring over the papers. She loved it. It big. She loved it be- cause Jimmy part of it all.
 And Elphistone went his way becoming more eau tous, careful studious every day. He held his to the grndstone The gray crept into his hair making him more handsome than ever He was a machine. He never stopped. For he had one purpose in this world, and flat to jet money make money Yet was hard work One spring the public came into Wall Street with rush. Elphinstone had waited pa tently for the public to come The public meant ac- had beAu horrib Nv of late. His capital too had dwindled just bit more he had used some of 1t living the easy life He and Miriam had to keep the pace of course such as it was But now the public like spring freshet, deluged Wall Street after hard winter and softened things lip. Jimmy Elol2store and Marcnbanl,. Moore & O. got their heads together and Jimmy sold out what he had at slight loss and put up everything he had as margin deal in Interstate Tri-State, that the public this time had taken notion to attack Jimmy