The Washington bee., 1911-02-18
HIS
CONTRIBUTION
By MARTHA HOTCHKISS

who was quite willing to marry him.
Not that he had asked her. for be had
not; be wished to get himself in bet
ter financial shape before doing so.
MIR. Heating" she said to him one
evening, Il am so anxious TO make a
little money. | want 1t for q certain
purpose It's something / can't tell
you about. for | have promised not to
tell any one. You see. there are sew
eral of US interested in it, and l would
not be justified in telling their secret"
Certainly not. Some social move, I
suppose?''
NO. it's not social"
"Oh, you are going in for some of
these fadS the rich women are taking
up-woman voting, helping women op-
eratives who strike or something Of
that kind"
Nothing of the sort 1 see you have
got wrong impression entirely, so III
have to tell YOU
/ And she did. They were going to
endow a colored church.
That's a laudabIe object, and I'd be
very mean not to help you. Would a
hundred dollars dO?'
I'VE wish to make ten thousand.
Now, it seems to me that if you would
give us a-what do you call it?'
"a tip?"
Yes; a tip when some stock you are
going to make money in is going up,
so that we can buy some Of it. We
can make all we want
'1n one fell swoop"
'Yes, that's 1t. Without having to
beg it in little lots. get up fairs and
( all that sort of thing"
VERY we'll I'm thinking Of a little
scheme now. If it comes to anything
I'll let you know"
! Not long after that Mr.. Heating called
on Miss Lamb and asked If be could
speak to her without being overheard.
She shut all the doors, and he said to
her in a low tone:
'Tf give you a tip will you DE sure
not to tell any one"
Certainly"
"Well, buy Jimberjaw Lead You'll
make your $4,000. But If you should
lose I'll stand your loss myself"
Miss Ethel Lamb thanked her in
former, though she said 1t wouldn't be
| quite fair for him to stand any loss.
Still. since there wouldn't be any loss
there wouldn't be anything for him to
stand.
The next day she went 20 a friend
who was a stock broker and told him
that she had received a tip on Timber
| jaw Lead and asked him to buy some
OF the stock for her. She had no mon
ey to put up for a margin, but be told
her that if she would convince him
| that the tip was reliable he would buy
some stock for her without any margin.
! Miss Lamb remembered her promise,
{ but. considering the cause she was
working for warranted her breaking If,
concluded to tell him provided be would
| promise soIemnly not to tell a single
/ person. He promised. and she told
him that the tip had come from Mr..
| Heating
He opened his eyes, but said nothing.
and the next morning she received a
notice of the purchase Of 500 shares OF
| Jimberjaw Lead. As soon as she had
left the office the broker told his part
ners that Keating had tipped lady
he (the brOkerj happened to know keat-
/ ing was attentive TO that there was TO
/ be a movement in JimberjaW Lead.
T This was done in the private Office,
/ where no one except the members Of
the firm could hear.
A number of customers doing bust
ness with the firm were quietly ad-
| vised to buy a little of the stock with
out having been given the source from
! which the information about it came.
| But the clerks. seeing large orders for
/ the shares going into the exchange,
! took tIiers and cOnfidentially told the
/ clerks Of other offices.
/ Very soon the price Of Jimberjaw
( Lead began to rise. at first slowly, but
! In time rapidly Then it began to
! jump. one morning Miss Lamb was
informed by her broker that she had
a profit Of $1,000 Would she sell?
/ She said she would like first to ask her
+ Upper She teIeph0ned Heating for in
! formation, who told her TO hold on
and she would surely make her $4,000.
+ This information she communicated to
her brokers. and it radiated in many
directions.
There were large sales Of JtmberJaw
Lead for a few days. the stock gain
ing and losing IN price alternately;
then it began to 20 down. Suddenly
a large lot was dropped on the market.
and Miss Lambs profit was wiped
out. From that time forward 1t sank
slowly until she had lost some $3.OOO.
She sent for Mr.. Keating.
What shall ! dor she moaned-
'T've lost money / can't pay"
Didn't tell you / would stand your
Ioss?'
''Yes. but I don't like to have you
do that Besides. the church"
'PH take care Of the church"
This somewhat reassured her.
81 am abundantly able to give SlO,-
900 TO your church project since
have sold ont shares that have been
on nv hands FOR two years at a hand
some profit. You enabled me to DO
So"
"T! HowT'