The Green Forest tribune., 1916-05-19
CHAPTER X-Continued,

Tt looks like a run on bank" said
 Brouillard.
 Tt is" was the crisp reply. Garner Z has beaten everybody else to the home 9# plate, but he couldn't keep his mouth # shut. He's been talking, and every # man in that mob is a potential panic |# breeder. That thing has got to be 8 nfpped in the bud, right now!"
 "Yes," Brouillard agreed. He was
 still wrestling with his own besetment the prompting which involved a de- & hberate plunge where up to the pres I ent crisis he had been merely wading l in the shallowa A little thing stung him alive to the Imperative call of the moment-the sight of Amy Massingale
 walking down. the street ee.. with. sTig .,gg
 smith, the Triangle Circle foreman. If
 "ias or the death of her hopes that he
 was thinking when he said coolly:
 I1ou nave sized it up precisely. MT.
 Cortwrlght; that is panic in the mak-
 Ing, and the bubble won't stand for
 very much pricking. Give me free
 haha With your check book for few
 minutes and I'll try to stop it."
 u spoke volumes for the millionaire
 promoters quick discernment and de-
 eiSlon that he asked no questions Do
 II, ne snapped. "I'Il cover you for
 whatever it takes. Don't wait. that
 Cfo"d IS getting bigger every minute"
 bfouillard ran downstairs and across ene street. It was no part of his inten
 t!oh to stop and speak to Amy Mas ninsale and the ranchman, but he did it' and even walked a little way with them before he turned back to elbow | Rls way through the sidewalk throno anu into Gamers dingy little office.
 iou are selling Mirapolis holdings SHolt today, Garner?" he asked when ne 4, haa pushed through the crowd to 'ne speculator's desk. And when Gar ner laughed and said there were no sakers he placed his order promptly. lou may bid in for me, at yesterdays piices' anything within the city limits
 not options, you understand but the oai tnlng. Bring your papers over to Z ny once after banking hours and $ Fe Il close for whatever you've been 'ole to pick up." lie said it quietly, but there could t 70 n'' privacy at such time and in q uch a place. z
 "hats that, MT. Brouillard?" de- q lahued one in the counter jam. fl 1ou le giving Garner blank card to fl uy TOT your account? Say, that's T 'enty good enough for me. Garner, B ,ncel 7, my order to sell will you? " nen the chief engineer of the gov of nhent water works believes in Mir if 'ohs futures and bets his money on til n, I'm not selling"
 me excitement was already dying la] "h and the crowd was melting away WE 'm Garner's sidewalk when Brouil- or .u reJolned MT. Cartwright in the to cond-foor room across the street. tht well, it's done," he announced ter ortly, adding: Its only a stop ha, D. TO make the bluff good, you've ing to have the railroad" " mats the talk" said the promoter, wit -en'ine tne cigar which the teW the nutes of crucial suspense had extin- ous Sneu. Ana then, without warning: Ha. pure carrying something up your tou eve, Brouillard What is it?" roc] IL IS the one thing you need, MT. G wright. If I could get my own witt sent to use it I could bring the gav road here in spite of those New win kers who seem to have an attack is t 'old feet" is r IT. J. Wesley Cortwright's hesita- tate
 was so brief as to be almost i'm that 'eptible. T suppose that is your T
 of saying that your share in the an e stakes isn't big enough. All plum t; the game can't stop in the mid else, of bet. How much is it going resel ost us to stay in?" hgur he cost tsn't precisely in the kind are