Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-04-25

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
itor, 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 po-
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 I'm his enthusi-
asm, 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.
81 know" said Orm. II simply know.
tell you it will happen. 1t is all as
plain to me as though | had read
report of it in this mornings Sphere.
Forty-eight hours from now the Sphere
Will print tic SlOIy d11AOSI OAoNlAS etS
have outlined it,"
ut seems insane" unused 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 l don't know how
you've got it, and it don't seem hard
ly possible to me, yet | can't help be-
lieving it, 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
raving thing But Orm sat in his tiny
office. commanding a campaign that
to others seemed that of mailman,
| and to himself so simple, so certain,
that it 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 oc-
Cured and the stock was dropping out
of sight. at the mad moment when it
was being avoided as a 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
| iestically, 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 a desk in 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 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 saner mo-
ment. had struck him as the trust of an
idiot in the maunderings of a 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 mllionaires.
1t was a fortnight later when DR..
Edouard Enz received a night letter
from Chicago. 1t read:
"The girl from Milwaukee and |
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 its 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.
"The effect will wear off entirely in
about three weeks
al fancy it's deuced uncomfortable
though, while Ii lasts"