The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-09-22
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10. from father TO son. always un.
der show OF fair appearance. tie
gan had carried the fcud over. Yet
ltegan's very foundation on which no
butt for revenge Was merctricious
and wrongly conceived. True. eight
years before II. H. Ms death he had
tried TO double cross him and had
failed. but he never dreamed that
r. H. NJ had guessed Yet ". N. NJ
had not only guessed. but had aaocr.
tanned beyond any shadow OF doubt.
and had Rcgan known that H. IL. NJ.
knew % hts periidy. Regain would
have taken his medicine without
thought OF revenge. A Il was. be.
lieving that u. II. NJ. was bad as
himself. believing that II. II. NJ. out
OF mcanness as mean as his own.
without proyocation or suspicion. had
done this foul thing 20 him he saw
no way TO balance the account save
by running him. or. in lieu OF him.
hy running his son.
And Regain had taken his time At
FIRST Francis had left the financial
game alone. content with letting his
money remain safely In the safe In
veatments into which II had been put
by his father. Not until Francis had
become for tho first time active ia
undertaking Tampico Petroleum to
the tune OF millions OF Investment.
with an assured many millions OF vi
innate returns. had Regain had the
/ ghost of chance 20 destroy him.
But the chance given. Regain had
not wasted time. tho bis slow and
thoro campaign had required many
months TO develop. Ere he was done.
| he came very close 20 knowing every
share Of whatever stock Francis car.
ried on margin or owned outright
II had really taken two years and
more for Regain 10 prepare. In some
OF tho corporation. which Francis
| owned heavily Regain was himself
director and no uncomfortable arbiter
OF destiny In Frisco Consolidated he
was president. In Nc~ York. Yer
mont & Connecticut ho was vice pres
ident
From controlling one director in
Northwestern Electric. he had played
kitchen politics until ho controlled
tho two.thlrda majority. And 40 with
all tho rest. either directly or Ind.
rectly thru corporation and banking
ramlncniions. he had his hand on the
secret springs and levers ~ the imam.
cial mechanisms which gave strength
90 Francis fortune
Yet no one OF these was more than
a baRaielis compared with tho big.
ge.t thing Of aii--TampIco Pctro-
leum. In this. beyond q paitry %. 900
shares bought on tho open market.
fsegan owned nothing. controlled
nothing. tho the tirno was growing
ripe for him 10 sell and deal and jug.
gle inordinnte quantities.
Tampico Petroleum was practically
Francis private preserve. A number
o. his friends were. for them. deeply
1 involved Mrs Carru,hcra, even
gravely 40. She worried him. and
was not even above Fostering him
over tho telephone. There were
others. like Johnny baltimore. who
never bothered him at all. and who
when they met talked carclcrsly and
/ alphabetically about the condition Of
+ the market and financial things IN
general All Of which was harder for
Francis 20 bear than Mrs. Carruth
/ orr' perpetual nervousness.
| Northwestern Electric. thanks to
I Regan's Vaccinations. had actually
dropped 30 points. and remained
there. Those on the outside who
though, they knew. regarded II as
positively shaky. Then there was the
little. old. solid as ths-rock OF Gibral-
/ tar Frisco Consolidated. Tho nasti
est Of rumors were nfioai. and the
talk Of n rcceivershlp was growing
/ emphatic.
Montana Lode was still giclly un-
der Mulhaney's unfiatterlng and IN
modified report. and Weston. the
great expert sent out by the English
1 investors. had failed TO report any
7 thing reassuring. For six months
! Imperial Tungstom. earning nothing.
had been put 10 disastrous expense in
I the great strike which seemed only
/ Just begun. Nor did anybody. save
I the several labor leaders who knew
dream that It was Regan's gold that
was at the bottom OF the affair
I The secrecy and the headlines OF
4 tho attack was what unncrved Has.
com. All properties IN which Fran.
els was interested were being pressed
down as II by "A slow.moylng glacier.
There was nothing spectacular about
the movement-merely a steady.
persistent decline that made Fran
els large fortune shrink horribly.
And. along with what he owned out
right, what he held on margin suf-
/ fered even greater shrinkage.
rhen had come the rumors OF war.
Ambassadors were receiving their
passports right and left. and half the
world seemed mobilizing. This was
the moment. with the market shaken
and paniclSy, and with the world pow.
ers delaying In declaring moratori.
ums. that Regau selected TO strike.
The time was ripe for a bear raid.
and with him were associated half n
dozen other big bears who taciuy ac-
cepted his leadership.
But even they did not know the
full extent OF his plans. nor guess
ut the specific direction OF them.
They were in the raid for what they
could make. and thought he was In
It for the same reason. I'm their sim
pie directions Of pecuniary vision
catching no glimpse OF Francis Nor
gan nor OF his Rhostly father at
whom tho big blow was being struck.
Copyright. 1919 International Feature
Service. fnc.)