The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1919-05-22

much money can you command this
morning?"
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 n chn!r. He leaned
forward and talked rapidly, certainly.
There was confidence In the very po-
sition Of his long body.
The other man listened with inter
est. Incredullty came first.
Then Orm's voice, Orm's personality,
the infection that dwelt In his enthusi-
asm. in his very self fbellef. won. The
other man grew excited. He rose and
stamped about the Office. M
''How do you known" he asked. halt
Ing before the other.
II know" said Orm. 81 simply know.
I tell you It will happen. II Is all as
plain to me as though had read
report Of It in this mornings Sphere.
Forty-elght hours from now the Sphere
will print the story. almost exactly as
l have outlined H."
at seems insane" mused the other,
speaking as much to himself as to
orm. "And yet ! can't get It out Of
me that you're right. You've got the
dope some way. I don't know how
you've got 1t. and 1t don't seem hard
ly possible to me. yet can't help be-
llevlng 1t. That's the queer part"
When Orm left the Office he bore
with him check and note.
And now began that vigil. that long
fight, that nerve-racking. henrt-breuk-
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 ut 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
raving thing. But Orm sat In his tiny
office. commanding campaign that
TO others seemed that Of mndman.
and to himself 30 simple, SO certain,
| NIlul WIS uS ulCiC Suiiu y pay - s%.S-
chanical following out Of set forms.
It had begun with the Huntcrton
crowd throwing Inter-C County In blocks
upon questioning, uncertain, palpi-
tatlng market. Naturally the price.
fell like thermometer thrust into
an ice-box.
II was not until this fall had oc.
Cured and the stock was dropping out
of sight. at the mad moment when Il
was being avoided as q pestilential
thing. that Orm's men began quietly,
industriously buying.
Throughout the day they bought
Orm, in his ONCE. commanded by tele-
phone. The outer office was besiegcd
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
I jestically. his face suffused. the dark
frown Of an angered Odln cloudIng hia
: brow. and cursed them for a pack Of
3 fools.
A man sat at a desk In room on
!. the sixth floor of an ONCE building. Z
. room upon the door Of which no sign
appeared, and read newspaper.
He read hungrily, not because the
: story he was. reading was news, but
Q because 1t was so strIkingly akin to a
. story that Jimmie Orm told the day be-
fore, the story that Crm had declared
: was as plain to him us though he lad
read u In the mornings paper. Tks
e thing had come to pass.
4 The confidence that. in a sansr mo-
1 ment, had struck him as the t.Nast Of an
idiot in the mnunderings q madman.
J. was now justified. II sand all hap
pened. The man laid 6,wn the paper
> and looked out Of the window.
I His money. the k,oney that in his
/ hypnotized state ne had connded 10
the hands Of tad Jimmie 0rm. hal
l. made two mip.Cnaires.
!. II was fortnight later when De.
!. Edouard Ehx received q night isttes
|. from Chicago. It read:
|. "Tke girl from Milwaukee and I
d were married tonight. Our love foe
you. Thank heaven ihis b.snked tore-
y sight Is wearing on. Ne1er again."
Enz smiled us he slipped tie square
;. back into Its envelope. lie stood for q
a moment before the csen bed Of Goals,
. holding the telegresi In his hand.
ut will be all ;.ght." he said to him
v self. turning to the table with Its un-
!. opened mail.
q "'The effeet Will wear of entirely In
n about three weeks.
8 "I fancy It's deuced uncomfortable,
4 though. while II lasts"