The Owosso times., 1911-07-14

II
BILE WAS busy with selling orders 70
the London Exchange. There had beel
eight of the mighty kings Of finance a
that dinner. either In person or b,
their near representatives.
Rollins had walked away with Kel
vim.
This is a marvellous thing you hav,
been telling u.s." said he. ''but an in
cendiary thing too. The strange par
Is that II should have remained fo
you alone TO discover II and profit BY
1t. How did you End IL outy'
"Well. with about 10000 distributing
agents. each one instructed to remit IL
currency only. II would be very strang,
II there were not leak. Doubtless Q
host Of people other than myself know
OF II. but the individual amounts were
SO small that no one paid any atten
ton" ,- ,r>
That's precisely it, insisted Rollins
1T remained for you to appreciate
and take advantage OF the enormous
possibilities Of the thing. to understand
its magnitude In the aggregate. You
are great man. Mr.. Kelvin. You
have been selling all the time. haven't
your -oFr5
Every morning." admitted Phillip,
smiling.
"You must have an enormous ac-
count by this time" .~
"Close to 100000 shares" confessed
Philip. .H'
"And you held back your explana-
ton of all this until you had acquired
all you wanted? thought SO. Well.
it's an Ill w,ud that blows nobody any
good. l want some railroad shares.
suppose you realize what calamity
you are going TO bring on the coun-
try?"
II think do" And Phillips jaws
closed with a snap.
Rollins looked at him In slightly dis
approving speculation.
"Gad!' be said. Some of the big
men here have been pirates. but you
will be the most ruthless wrecker who
ever got into Wall street."
"No." returned Phillip. with curious
smile. you have read me wrong.
am not pirate. am reformer."
81 see," concluded Rollins-"in the
same manner that the inquisition re-
formed the heretics."
II decline to be interviewed" declar.
ed Phillip. Are you going uptown?"
At the Esplanade Kelvin found Rens-
selaer. "You are the only chap on my
list who knows a lot of the newspaper
crowd. | have an item for them, and
don't want to give it out myself"
He told Rensselaer, what had trans
pired at the dinner. Rensselaer, clap
ped him on the back and laughed loud
and long.
"The newspapers will eat that storyw
he declared. Its q wonderful thing!
Great Scott, man, how many shares
are you shortY'
about 7O0,OOO"
"Then every point drop means $780,
600 to you. This will send the line
down thirty points. Let me figure a
minute. Why. that's $2l.O0O.OOOv
81 figure on little bit more than
that" returned Kelvin dryly. But
don't let that distress you any, Bert"
You might have given a fellow a
tip" complained Rensselaer,.
"Row much money have you?"
"a little over $1,000 of my own" re-
piled Rensselaer,. but l can get hold
Of $4,000 more"
DO you know any way that you can
place your $4,000 on the London mar
ket in the morningT
81 think can. Me for it!' said
Rensselaer,. jumping up. Watch me
make the sidewalk smoke" At the
door. however. he paused. "And just
to think" he said. that all this gilt
tering opportunity comes about
through old Henry Breed! Why. /
have an aunt out at Forest Lakes. a
guest Of Breeds, she calls herself. but
she's guest for pay and is a sort Of
bear leader for the fair Lillian. She
would be above taking money for
coaching Lillian and afterward in
Quoting her into society. but she's not
above letting Breed handle her invest
ments' of a paltry $4,000 on a guar
anteed return of 100 per cent"
IF you want to get those selling or
ders away you had better hurry" sug-
gested Kelvin, looking at his watch.
81 have an idea that the cables will
be loaded with just such messages be-
fore morning."
Shortly after midnight Kelvin was
awakened by the ringing of his tele-
phone bell. and from then on until
morning he was kept busy answering
calls from the various newspaper Of
fees. He gave them all the informa-
ton he could. They besieged him for
news. for photographs, for the story Of
his life. and In the morning. having |
given out all the information he had
at hand, he was compelled to go to |
another hotel incognito to escape the |
reporters. He had brought to him all |
the morning papers and read with
smiles the mass of naive exaggera-
tons. He was the shrewdest man
that had ever come into Wall street |
He was combination Of all the great
financiers In America, from Vanderbilt
10 Hartman. He had sold short any
where from 100000 to 100000
shares of stock. His age ranged from
sixteen to sixty. his complexion from
blond to brunette and his character
from humming birds to vampires.