The Forrest City times., 1913-05-16
HORACE HAZELTINE

cAptfaiist and ais heinous crimes When. therefore. long. bola-facs type attracted mY ere with the announce menf. Fall in Crystal Consolidated. |" < started 70 read the sub! Joined article. confident enough that som. director or directors had been spitted for bar heeSe. Ana before had read five lines ! came upon the name Of Robert Cameron
 If Has to believe this introductory paragraph. ny fFtend Was tc Crystal consolidated whAt John D Rockefel. l@F was 70 Standard OIL yst in the months of our intimacy hs had made no r~fsFsnos to this connection. and though I Was thoroughly familiar with the great glass trust as f vas i called. and slth the name of ifa multi millionaire master. stranxsly enough [ bad never connected tha Cameron | knsN eith this Cameron. tbs Captain of Industry
 1 T am" he had said. iu all rnodssfy. largely interested ia certain line o' Industrial enterprises That sas al l suppose should have knosu: and ! yet. mo prophet is without honor save ih his own country
 The newspaper article ' now read however. lsft no room for doubt on the subject, and. Incidentally ia A single sentence. revealed the secret os how Cameron had succeeded ia ascaplnE that general recognition which is asg. ally the penalty of greafness "Hs has never sat for photograph. | But. while this part f fha article interested. that which followed startled and perple1ed me
 Crystal Consolidated fen 70 i03 today it went on. because of a Der. sistent rumor that Robert Cameron I Is seriously ill. in a New England sanl- tarium. The greatest secrecy has been maintained as to his ualaay and his whereabouts by those ~ho are in position to know l. has been aseer. tained. however. that after spending 1 quiet summer at his country plae. | Cragholt, on Long Island sound. near Greenwich. he started on October 2i on his fast steam yacht slbyllA for a cruise along the New England coast Ten days later the slbylla returned but MT. Cameron was not on board
 Tt is known that be has been in III health for months. and there are those who now declare that he has sought the seciusion Of an institution for the treatment of nervous diseases near Boston. his condition being criti cal
 Inquiry. today. at his Fifth avenue home in this city. and at his Connecti- cut country seat. was frultless. NIT Cameron was at neither place. and the servants expressed ignorance concern ing his present address.
 At the offices Of the Crystal Con. solidated Manufacturing company and at those of the missing anancier's brokers. Hatch & Hastings. evasion was the keynote of the answers to all questions.
 Whether MT. Cameron Is as !fi as ia reported. or whether he is guita robust. the effect Of tha gossip on 1 Crystal Consolidated was disasf rols A slump of fifteen points In tVo hours. this afternoon. wiped out many weak 1 ly margined accounts. and spread ruin among number of spectators vho fondly imagined this law.defytng trust. of which Cameron is The sup porting Atlas. as firmly intrenched as Is the government itself
 Unless something definite ls sorsh. coming regarding Mir Cameron. con. dition before the market opeus tomor. row. a panic in Crystal Consoil4stst Is predicted It closed today at l07& bid. l0S asked: the lowest figures rs- corded this year"
 It startled me. because it showed that at least a part O, the secre. ve were guarding was a secret no longer and 1t perpiexed me because could not fancy through what channel these somewhat distorted facts had filtered into publicity. had no doub, that the ball. having been set rolling in this fashion. would gaiu both Ia vol ume and momentum unless some sner. getic measures were promptly taken to check it. And yet, what. under the circumstances. could We do. Subtar. fuge. ! knew. would bs useless. and the truth must prove an acoalerant.
 In haste and with diminished app-- ute l rushed through my dinner. and a moment later was speeding up he avenue as fast as a taNicab could car " me. with the Cameron mansion my destination and consultation with Evelyn Grayson my object.
 IL must not be imagined that ln thi. matter l expected any geighty assist ance from young woman Of such i'm. tied experience; but she was prac,i. cally alone in the great house and I could well imagine how already "a porters must be wing one with anoth. CT to wiring from her admissions con cerning her uncle.
 To my infinite relief ! found that she had returned the word. Not al home 10 all such callers Inquiries 1 from other sources had been met in