The San Francisco call., 1910-02-06

Within month he had handled $4,000, placing them
in the dark and simply the, pawn OF the powers
employing him. Had his cyncism stood in need OF
fresh lessons he could have drawn them from his
experience during that month. AS a well dressed
idler who blnked ~ ito blackboards and exchanged
an occasional r. ting he had been remarked but
slightly As young man with money to play he was
one to be recognized With al eye Enthusiastically
set upon taking all the lead he well might, he skill
fully built up the impression that he commanded large
private resources and that far he had only felt
his way
Among the ntn1acies which his occupation
enabled him to foster that with atzBrown, the
willy Taeyrand Of the change whom he already
knew more than slightly, Figures loomed and fig
ures faded in the kaleidoscope of Wall street bit the
ruddy little with curly white galways always
formed a part Of the design. From the height of
fuller knowledge Carter in Gatz- Brown one OF
the shrewdest, farsighted and successful stock
manipulators in the country. He always knew how
far to swim with the dominant wave, drawing out
before disaster and chuckng sereney to the surface
when reaction set in.
1t impossible to like Gatz- Brown, and
aside from the social Obligations under which he
had placed Carter the Virgnian found him vau-
able study. He made it practice to drop into the
operators Office at least daring the week and
chat about thoroughbreds the passion of the mil
lionaire's life. Gatz-Brown put few casual ques-
tions to him one day concerning his presence in the
district. Carter answered offhandedly, but he was
quite that he could not deceive the hnancer
in such matter If Gatz-Brown really cared to find
out the source of any ones activity the information
could not be hidden from him
The Group of Five
In due course Carter met the four other men who
with Weldstone, composed the group of his employ
They built of and for money-hard sharp
unsympathetic They formed interesting subjects
before the clinic his observation Among them
Weldstone alone seemed most human He rather
liked Weldstone
He had been invited to luncheon with all FIVE
There that in the air by which he was conscious
of definite purpose in the event 1t cropped to view
presently.
"You must know Gatz- Brown fairly WE'LL dom
you?" asked White, grizzled broker with shift,
eye.
The Virginian admitted that he did.
Notice you look in on him pretty regularly"
Again Carter assented. There was moment o
silence
Ever hear the old man drop anything about tht
market? You ought to pick up something good tina
way
Carter eyed the speaker distantly.
"Do you mean ask whether Mr.. Gatz-Browi
may not at times make some inadvertent remark tha
would have bearing values"
Something of that kind" was the answer, ant
there was short laugh about the table. Carter no
ticed that Weldstone did not laugh
"Mr. Gatz-Brown may have said such things,
said Carter slowly but 1 have tried to re
member them"
White started
Never tried to, eh? Better make note Of then
next time. We might have for them
II will bear your instructions in mind returne
Carter precisely.
Several weeks later Carter had in his car
to Gatz z-Brown and was seated in the little anteroor
to the private Office. The clerk, preceding him fror
the outer rooms, had walked across the apartment d
rectng him naturally to the chair nearest the part