The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-06

down twoenore points amid the wildest
excitement on the exchange.
The moment to buy had come. The
doctor was sure of 1t. Stocks had
touched bottom. The big bear pool
whole market would rise by leaps and
bounds.
He called old Dugro.
BUY for me now Amalgamated Cop
per, the market leader, for all I'm
worthv
The broker glared at him.
"Buyl Buy in this market? Man,
are you mad?"
81 said buy!" was the firm answer.
whats the limit?"
mot share without a stop loss or
der under it."
"Wel, with the stop?"
"I'll buy you 400 shares on four
point stop"
And when it goes up five points?"
the doctor asked eagerly.
"Ill double your purchase and raise
your stop, and every five points up I'll
keep on until you are a millionarew
The old broker smiled contemptu-
ously, but it was all lost on the doctor.
"Do it quick"
The order was scarcely given before
it was executed. Dugro handed the
memorandum to Woodman with
grunt.
at don't take long to get 'em today"
The words had scarcely left his lips
when hoarse cry rose from the crowd
hanging over the ticker.
Copper had leaped upward a whole
point between sales. A wild cheer
swept the room. For ten minutes every
stock on the list responded and began
to climb.
The doctors face was wreathed in
smiles. Men began to talk and laugh
and feel human for the first moment
in two weeks.
Dugro grasped the doctors hand,
and his deep voice rang above the
roar:
you're a mascotl You've broken
the spell! For Gods sake stay with
us!'
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 blazing with
excitement. His cry Of DOWN. pierc-
ed every ear in the room with horror.
The panic had come.
In ten minutes stocks tumbled five
points, and the Doctors last dollar 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 pitiful
sight of all was the man who could
Go neither. the man with white lips
and the strange. hunted expression in
his eyes who was looking death in the
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 big
break. The ticker shrieked its message
above the storms din like a little
laughing demon.
"The Van Dam Trust Company Has
Closed It's Doors and Asked For the
Appointment of Receiver!'
Bivens had not kept his solemn
pledge. The great bank had stood the
run for two hours and closed its doors.
And the work of destruction had just
begun.
At 3 o'clock the doctor walked out Of
Dugro's Office without a dollar. He
felt almost happy by contrast with the
fools he left shuffling over the floors Of
Dugro's office.
His own sense of loss was merely
blur The revelation he had just had
of the mad lust for money which had
begun to possess all classes was yet so
fresh and startling he could form no
adequate conception of his own posi-
ton.
1t was not until he entered his own
door and paused at the sound Of Har
riet's voice that he began to realize
the enormity of the tragedy that had
befallen him.
Continued in Tuesdays Issue.)