Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-16

The other looked puzzled. Orm's
face was quite serious. The other
was used to the impetuoslty Of his Wis
itor, and the puzzled look vanished. He
named a sum.
Orm pulled up chair. He leaned
forward and talked rapidly. certainly.
There was confidence in the very po-
sitlon Of his long body.
The other man listened with inter
est. !Ecredulity came first.
Then Orm's voice, Orm's personality,
the infection that dwelt in his enthusi-
assn. In his very self-belief. won. The
other man grew excited. He rose and
stamped about the office.
How do you knOw?" he asked. halt
Ing before the other.
Il know" said Orm. II simply know.
tell you 1t will happen. 1t is all as
plain to me rs though I had read
report Of it in this mornings Sphere.
Forty-eight hours from now the Sphere
will print the story, almost exactly as
l have outlined It,"
1T seems insane" unused the other.
speaking as much to himself as to
Orm. "And yet l can't get it out Of
me that you're right. You've got the
dope some way. don't know how
you've got it. and # don't seem hard
~ possible to me, yet I can't help be-
lieving 1t. That's the queer part"
When Orm left the Office he bore
with him a'check and note.
And now began that vigil. that long
fight, that nerve-racking, heart-break-
ing. grim strife which is not equaled
on any battlefield of mere guns and
sabers.
Orm spent the time in his own small
room. watching the coil Of tape that
told the markets history.
Always he had the telephone at his
elbow. Always he persisted, against
all indications, all seeming certain.
ties that his course was folly.
Strass had succumbed long since to
the strain and had been sent home a
raving thing. But Orm sat in his tiny
office, commanding campaign that
to others seemed that Of mailman,
and to himself so simple, SO certain.
that 1t was as mere child's play, me-
chanical following out of set forms.
1t had begun with the Hunterton
crowd throwing Inter-County in blocks
upon questioning, uncertain. palpi-
tating market. Naturally the price
fell like thermometer thrust into
an ice-box.
1t was not until this fall had oc:
Cured and the stock was dropping out
of sight. at the mad moment when It
was being avoided as pestilential
thing, that Orm's men began quietly,
industriously buying.
Throughout the day they bought.
Orm, in his Office, commanded by tele-
phone. The outer office was besieged
by wild-eyed beings who thought the
young broker suddenly gone mad.
Once he threw open his door and
stood before them, his hair wildly dis.
arrayed, his great figure towering ma
jestically, his face suffused, the dark
frown Of an angered Odin clouding his
brow, and cursed them for a pack of
fools.
A man sat at desk in a room on
room upon the door Of which no sign
appeared, and read a newspaper.
He read hungrily, not because the
story he was reading was news, but
because it was so strikingly akin to a
story that Jimmie Orm told the day be-
fore, the story that Orm had declared
| was as plain to him as though he had
read it in the mornings paper. The
thing had come to pass.
The confidence that, In q saner mo-
ment, had struck him as the trust Of an
idiot in the maunderings Of mailman,
was now justified. 1t had all hap
pened. The man laid down the paper
and looked out Of the window.
His money, the money that in his
the hands of mad Jimmie Orm, had
made two millionaires.
1t was fortnight later when DR..
Edouard En- received night letter
from Chicago. 1t read:
1.-THE girl from Milwaukee and ]
were married tonight. Our love for
you. Thank heaven this BANKED fore
sight Is wearing off. Never again"
En- smiled as he slipped the square
back into its envelope. He stood for q
moment before the open bed Of Goals
holding the telegram in his hand.
ut will be oil right" he said to him.
SELF. turning to the table with Its un.
opened mail.
"The effect will wear off entirely In
about three weeks.
II fancy it's deuced uncomfortable