El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-05-01
THE CASH INTRIGUE
BY GEORGE
RANDOLPH CHESTER
(Contlnued from saturday.l

agents, each one instructed to remit in
currency only. it weuld be very strange
If there were not leak Doubtless a
host Of people other than myself know
of it. but the individual amounts were
so small that no one paid any atten-
ton"
That's precisely It." insisted Rollins.
''It remained for you to appreciate
and take advantage of the enormous
possibilities Of the thing. to understand
its magnitude In the aggregate, You
are a great man. Mr. Kelvin You
have been selling all the time. haven't
your
Every morning" admitted Phillip,
smiling.
You must have an enormous ac-
count by this time"
'Close to 100000 shares" confessed
Phillip.
And you held back your expIana-
ton of all this until you had acquired
all you wanted? 1 thought so. Well.
it's an i'll wind that blows nobody any
good. want some railroad shares. 1
suppose you realize what a calamity
you are going to bring on the coun-
tryT'
81 think / do" And Phillips Jaws
closed with snap
Rollins looked at him in slightly dis
approving speculation
Cad" he. said Some of the big
men here have been pirates. but you
viii be the most ruthless wrecker who
ever got into Wall street"
NO" returned Phillip. with curious
smile You have read me wrong. l
am not a pirate l am q reformer."
Il see," concluded Rollins-'fn the
same manner that the inquisition re-
formed the heretics."
81 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 lot of the newspaper
crowd 1 have an item for them, and
don't want to give it out myself"
He told Rensselaer, what had trans.
PRED at the dinner Rensselaer, clap
ped him on the back and laughed loud
and long.
1.-THE newspapers will eat that storyt"
he declared ''It's a wonderful thing,
Great Scott. man. how many shares
are you short?"
About 100000"
Then every point drop means $780,
900 to you. This will send the line
down thirty points. Let me figure a
minute. Why. that's $21.OOO.o00r'
81 figure on a little bit more than
that" returned Kelvin dryly. But
don't let that distress you any, Bert"
You might have given a fellow
tip" complained Rensselaer,.
How much money have you?"
"a little over $4,000 Of my own" re-
Piled Rensselaer,, but can get hold
Of $4,000 more"
do you know any way that you can
place your $4,000 on the London mar
ret in the morning?
81 think l can. Ne for it," said
jumping up. Watch me
make the sidewalk smoke" At the
loor, however, he paused. "And just
% think" he said, that all this gilt
ering opportunity comes about
through old Henry Breed. Why. 1
nave an aunt out at Forest Lakes, a
guest Of Breeds, she calls herself, but !
she's a guest for pay and is a sort of !
pear leader for the fair Lillian She
would be above taking money for !
Lillian and afterward in /
lucting her into society, but she's not |
lbove letting Breed handle her invest
nents' Of a paltry $4,000 On a guar i
lnteed return of 100 per cent"
IF you want to get those selling or
Iers away you had better hurry. sug- |
,ested Kelvin, looking at his watch. |
I have an idea that the cables will |
,e loaded with just such messages be-
ore morning"
Shortly after midnight Kelvin was
weakened by the ringing Of his tele-
'hone bell, and from then on until
morning he was kept busy answering
alls from the various newspaper of
ices. He gave them all the informa-
ion he could. They besieged him for
Jews, for photographs, for the story of
lis life, and in the morning, having
iven out all the information he had
t hand, he was compelled to go to
mother hotel incognito to escape the
eporters. He had brought to him ali
be morning papers and read with
miles the mass of naive exaggera-
ions. He was the shrewdest man
hat had ever come into Wall street
lie was q combination of all the great
in America, from Vanderbilt
D Hartman. He had sold short any
there from 100000 to 100000
hares Of stock. His age ranged from
ixteen to sixty, his complexion from
lond to brunette and his character
rom a humming birds to a vampires
bout only two things was there no
isagreement-he had conducted his
transactions with real
honey, and Henry Breed, whose greed
ad made this possible was the most
,ofound scoundrel Of Che centuryi
While he was still reading these ac-
)unts the Stock Exchange opened, and
Il