Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-05-15
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CHAPTER XV-Continued.

CHAPTER xV-continued.
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 He rolled away in his car, and Hazel watched him from the window trifle puzzled. She recalled Bills remark at luncheon. In the light of Brooks explanation, she could see nothing wrong. On the other hand, she knew Bill Wagstaff was not prone to jump at rash conclusions. If he objected to certain manipulations of the Free Gold Mining company, his objection was likely to be based on substantial grounds. At any rate, she hoped noth- ing disagreeable would come of 1t.
 So she put the whole matter out of her mind. She dressed, and went whole-heartedly about her own affairs.
 Dinner time was drawing close when she returned home. She sat down by q window that overlooked the street to watch for Bill. Six passed. The half-hour chime struck on the mantel clock. Hazel grew impatient, petu- 1ant, aggrieved. Dinner would be served in twenty minutes. Still there was no sign of him. And for lack of other occupation she went into the hall and got the evening paper, which the carrier had just delivered.
 A startling headline on the front page stiffened her to scandalized atten- tion. Straight across the tops of two columns it ran, a facetious caption:
 WILLIAM MAGISTRATE IS A BEAR
 Under that the subhead:
 Husky Mining Man Tumbles Prices and Brokers. Whips Four Men in Broad
 Street Office. Slugs Another on
 Change. His Mighty Fists Sub-
 due Society's Finest. Finally
 Lands in Jail.
 The body of the article Hazel read in what a sob sister would describe as state of mingled emotions.
 William Wagstaff Is a mining gentleman from the northern wilds of British Colum- bia. He Is a big man, a natural-born fighter. To prove this he inflicted a black eye and split lip on Paul Lorimer, broken nose and sdndry bruises on James L. Brooks. Also Allen T. Bray and Ed ward Gurney Parkinson suffered certain contusions in the melee The fracas cured in the office of the Free Gold Min ing Company. 1884 Broad street, at 3:50 this afternoon. While hammering the brokers a police officer arrived on the scene and Wagstaff was duly escorted to the city bastile. Prior to the general en- counter in the Broad street office Wag- stan walked into the Stock Exchange, and made statements about the Free Gold Min ing Company which set all the brokers by the ears. Lorimer was on the floor, and received his discolored optic there.
 A reporter was present when Wagstaff walked on the floor of the Stock Ex- change He strode up to the post where Lormer was transacting business.
 'I serve notice on you right now" he said loudly and angrily, that If you sell another dollars worth of Free Gold stock. I'll put you out of business"
 Lorimer appeared to lose his temper Some word was passed which further in- lcensed Wagstaff He smote the broker and the broker smote the floor. Wag .staff's punch would do credit to a cham pion pugilist, from the execution it wrought. He immediately left the Stock Exchange and not long afterward Broad street was electrified by sounds of combat in the Free Gold office. It Is conceded that Wagstaff had the situation and his three opponents well in hand when the COD arrived. None of the men concerned would dis cuss the matter. From the remarks drop ped by Wagstaff, however, it appears that the policy of marketing Free Gold stock was inaugurated without his knowledge or consent. Be that as 1t may. all sorts of rumors are In circulation. and Free Gold stock. which has been sold during the past week as high as a dollar forty, found few talk CTS at par when Change closed sThere has been a considerable speculative move ment in the stock, and the speculators are beginning to wonder if there Is screw loose in the company affairs.
 Wagstaff's case will come up tomorrow forenoon. charge of disturbing the peace was placed against him. He gave a cash bond and was at once released. When the hearing comes some of the parties to the affair may perchance di- vulge what lay at the bottom Of the row. Any fine within the power of the court to impose is a mere bagatel1e, compared to the distinction of scientifically man. handling four of society's finest In one afternoon. As one bystander remarked in the classic phraseology of the street.
 "wagstaff's a bear!"
 The brokers concerned might consider this to have a double meaning.
 Hazel dropped the paper, mortified and wrathful. The city jail seemed the very Pit itself to her. And the lurid publicity the lifted eyebrows of her friends, maddened her in prospect. Plain street brawling such as one might expect from cabman or taxi mahout not from a man like her hus- band She involuntarily assigned the blame to him. Not for the cause.-the cause was of no importance whatever to her-but for the act itself. Their best friendsl She could hardly realize