The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-06-13

much money can you command this
morning?"
The other looked puzzled. Orm's
face was quite serious. The other
was used to the impetuosity Of his Wis
ltor, and the puzzled look vanished. He
named sum.
Orm pulled up a chair. He leaned
forward and talked rapidly, certainly.
There was confidence In the very p0-
sition of his long body.
| The other man listened with inter
est. Incredulity came first.
| Then Orm's voice, Orm's personality,
the infection that dwelt in his enthusi-
asm, In his very sef-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.
II know" said Orm. 81 simply know.
| tell you 1t will happen. 1t is all as
plain to me as though had read
report of it in this mornings Sphere.
will print the story. almost exactly as
I have outlined it,"
| ut seems insane" unused the other,
speaking as much to himself as to
| Orm. sand yet can't get it out of
me that you're right. You've got the
| dope some way. 1 don't know how
you've got it, and it don't seem hard
ly possible to me, yet I can't help be-
lieving it. 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, 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
| raving thing. But Orm sat in his tiny
office, commanding campaign that
| 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 a questioning, uncertain, palpi-
tating market. Naturally the price
fell like a thermometer thrust into
an ice-box.
1t was not until this fall had &C.
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 q room on
the sixth floor of an office building, a
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 Qrm 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 a saner mo-
ment, had struck him as the trust of an
idiot in the marnderings 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
hypnotized state he had confided to
the hands of mad Jimmie Orm, had
made two millionaires.
1t was fortnight later when DR..
Edouard Enz received a night letter
from Chicago 1t read:
"The girl from Milwaukee and I
were married tonight. Our love for
you. Thank heaven this BANKED fore
sight Is wearing off. Never again."
Enz smiled as he slipped the square
back into it's envelope. He stood for a
moment before the open bed Of Goals,
holding the telegram in his hand.
at will be all right" he said to him
self, turning to the table with its I'M
opened mail.
1.-THE effect will wear off entirely in
about three weeks.
81 fancy it's deuced uncomfortable,
though while II lasts"