News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-10-28

Bob Reynolds speculates through your
house. There was an awful slump in
Consolidated Wire today. How badly
was he stung on it?"
"Why, that's confidential, Meade
You don't expect me to tell my Gus
toners business to everyone who in
quires about it?"
Dick got up and walked over to the
broker. He commanded attention this
| time in such way that Henning was
unable to evade his look.
Don't bubble with me, Henning,' "
he counseled. you know that my in
quiries into Reynolds business aren't
calculated to do him harm. | have
heard something which makes me
think he was caught pretty bad today.
Now it's yes, or no. If you don't want
to enlighten me, say so. Don't stall"
THAT MEANS" said the broker, "if
don't answer that youth find out some
where else. Well, then, he was hit a
plenty. About forty thousand, and if
know anything about Mr.. Reynolds
affairs, he was cleaned"
"All on one stock?' Meade asked.
"One was enough" replied the
broker. Consolidated Wire, did the
trick"
quite an unexpected drop, wasn't
it," the young journalist commented.
ooh, by the way" he added lightly,
"Mr. Brand, Of the Hudson company,
has been trading in Consolidated.
suppose he took tumble, too"
Henning laughed outright.
Eyes, he took tumble all right, but
he took it 1irst-before the drop-and
sold. Stocks go up on rising mar
ket," he said placidly. They go so far
and then they usually go down."
And very reasonable of them, too"
Dick feigned no surprise at Brands
good fortune. He got up and walked
about the room, inspecting, in turn,
the mural decorations. Then quite
casually he fingered a pad of paper on
the brokers' desk and toyed with a con-
venient pencil. Unwittingly he drew
some little lines on the paper, two
vertical, and across them, two hori-
zontal ones. Then he drew them
again-a double cross.
Henning, a keen observer of this
artistic trifing, REDEEMED slightly, but
his immobile features underwent no
change. He watched the writer reach
for his hat and neither spoke. AS Dick
opened the door the broker offered no
commonplace good-by. His words
might have seemed somewhat irrele-
want, but for the little cross Dick had
scratched upon the pad.
Meade" he said, without rising,
you're wasting your time at that
magazine stuff. Why don't you come
down here and get in with the live
ones? You could make your fortune
in the street beyond doubt"
Thanks" answered the journalist
complacently. Coming from you that's
quite compliment. But even a broker
can't ignore some truths. II you don't
mind I'll give you a motto for Wall
street. Unto him that hath shall be
given and from him that hath not shall
be taken even more than he hath A
slight revision of the original text but
for the purpose just one. Good-by,
Henning"
"Wait!" called the broker.
Dick turned.
"Wait. l didn't know Reynolds was
such friend of yours. Maybe he isn't
fat. Maybe we can fix him up a bit"
I'm afraid not" Dick answered.
"From what knew and from what I've
learned now, l fear he's past fixing"
He went out into the crowd. 1t was
four o'clock. Wall and Broad streets
were filled with hurrying, scurrying
throng.
Dick, in no mood for haste, was
showed and jostled, as he Rugged the
sides of buildings in his more leisurely
progress toward the subway. When he
saw the mobs pouring down into the
tube at Wall and at Dey streets he
wormed his way northward along |
till he found taxi and head |
ed for the Thirty-fourth street ferry. !
The boat made its slip at Long |
Island City and he caught a train for !
Bayside where the Reynolds lived. |
Where they lived, but would live no |
more Poor Bob! he thought, and poor
Jane! For his heart went out to Jane |
as much as to his friend. She was but |
a girl, blinded by the glamor with
which the trap had been baited and |
Bob was a man who had stepped bold |
ly into it.
The end had come quicker than Dick |
thought it would. 1t was but a matter
Of time, he knew, but he would have |
given Bob more than year.
He learned that the Reynolds house |
was some thirty minutes walk from
The station. He could find no means
Of Conveyance, so he set out on foot.
CHAPTER Xxx.