Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-21

the grim answer. y wish you good
luck"
The doctor drew bis check for 5000
and smilineiy took bis place among the
crowd before the board
The ticker would tell the story % the
first hour. u stocks should cell Oh
three points before noon. be wouio
know He determined 10 put this to
the test trst he would not sell the
market shor. He would be content
with the big jump the market would
make upward when Il started.
As the noon hour drew near the doc
tors heart was beating Ike sledge
hammer. Bisens' program had been
carried out to the letter Stocks had de
clined for the first hour point. and In
the second hour suddenly smashed
down two more points amid the widest
excitement on the exchange.
The moment 10 buy had come. The
doctor was sure Of Il Stocks bad
touched bottom. The big bear pool
would turn bull In moment and the
whole market would rise By leaps and
bounds
he called old Dugro.
BUY for me now Amalgamated Cop
per, the market leader. for Ill I'm
WORTH"
The broker giared al him.
Buy! Buy In this marketi Man.
are you mad?"
Il said buyP was the nrm answer.
whats the limit :.
mot q share without stop loss or
der under It.
-Well. with the stopf"
"I'n buy you 400 shares on four
point stop"
"And when II goes up i've pointsi-
the doctor asked eagerly.
"I'll double your purchase and raise
your stop. and every flve points up I'll
keep on until you are milllonairer
The old broker smiled contemptu-
ously. but II was all lost on the doctor.
"Do It quick
The order was scarcely given before
II was executed. Dugro handed the
memorandum to Woodman with q
| grunt
at don't take long to get 'em todayr
The words had scarcely left bis lips
when hoarse cry rose from the crowd
hanging over the ticker.
Copper had leaped upward whole
poiut between sales. A Wild cheer
swept the room For ten minutes every
stock on the list responded and began
| TO climb
The Doctors fare was wreathed In
SMILES Men begin to talk and laugh
aud feel human for the 6rst moment
In two weeks
Dngro grasped the doctors hand.
and bis deep voice rang above the
roar:
You're q mascot! You've broken
the spell! For Gods sake stay with
ns!,
Suddenly another CRY came from the
crowd at the ticker The boy at the
board sprang to the Instrument with
a single bound. his eyes hIazine with
excitement. His cry OF Down. pierre
| ed every ear IN the room with horror.
The panic bad come.
In ten minutes stocks tumt,lrd Gre
points. and the doctDr's last dolinF was
swept into space. while the whole mar
ket plunged down. down. down into the
abyss Of ruin and despair.
Men no longer tried to conceal their
emotion. Some wept some cursed.
some laughed: but the most pItifnl
sight Of all was the man who could
do neither. the man with white lips
and the strange. hunted expression In
! his eyes who was looking death In tbs
face for the first time.
A full quarter OF an hour of the panic
had spent itself before the dazed
crowds In the brokers' Offices read the
startling news that caused the biz
break. The ticker shrieked it's message
above the storms din like q little
laughing demon.
.Tbe van Dam Trust Company Has
Closed Its Doors and Asked For the
| appointment OF a Rereiyer"
Bivens had not kept his solemn
pledge. The great hank had stood the
run for two hours and closed its doors
And the work of destruction had just
begun.
! At 8 o'clock the doctor walked ont Of
Dugro's Office without a dollar. he
felt almost happy by contrast with the
fools he left shutting over the floors OF
Dugro's Office.
His own sense Of loss was merely a
blur. The revelation he had Just bad
| of the mad Inst for money which bad
begun to possess all classes was ret so
| fresh and startling be could form no
adequate conception OF bis own posi-
] ton.
II was not until he entered his own
| door and paused at the sound OF Har
| riet's voice that be began to realize
the enornIity of the tragedy that had
/ him