The Arizona copper camp., 1920-04-03

"You're Fifth Avenue Resident. New
port - Villa in France, Cotillon
Leader, Society SWeIl-All That"
Fifth avenue resident. Newport.
Villa in France. Cotillon leader, So
ciety swell-all that. Recently you
bought fifty thousand acres of Florida
| land and turned them into paradise.
You're tired of it now and want to
sell at a great sacrifice. You follow
me?"
I'm even ahead of you," answered
/ Fitzhugh, fitting an oval cigarette to
a gold and amber holder. Then, with
startling rapidity, his demeanor un-
derWent complete change. His man
ner was now heavy with ennui, and
| his voice silnpering when it drawled: /:
Jaw, really, now, | caWn't! | really
cawn't let it so for less than hawlf
what paid for it. The thing cost me
hawlf a million, y'know, and l really
| should get three hundred thousand,
because"
He dropped his mask as suddenly as
| he had assumed it, and running the
/ thumbs and foFefngers Of both hands
Unto his lower vest pockets, turned
! the lining inside out
He smiled: Because" said he, 81
haven't cent"
y
These We're frenzied days in the
wheat pit. Under the terrific, unre-
mitting pounding of Symington Otis
and his associates September wheat
| descended with invincible force. With
/ every titanic swing of the bears tre-
mendous hammer the foundation of
| the bulls rocked and swayed beneath
their feet-and the dollars piled up
for Daniel Fitzhugh. Yet he knew he
was nothing in that mighty conflict.
i He was unseen, unfelt, unknoWn-the
veriest pigmy in a battle of giants.
| Down. down went the price Of
wheat, with dizzying velocity that
made the pit totter. 1t touched SO,
| "a, so. 1t fell to 75, 73, SO. And
then, in one gigantic crash, as the
/ bears put forth their last, supreme
] effort, the bottom dropped from the
market and September wheat went to
| 55 cents.
It was on this day that Fitzhugh
! severed his connection with Quigg &
Peevy. Quigg, repenting his unwise
/ bargain made in q, hot-headed moment
of anger, endeavored to retain his
''star" with alluring promises. But
! Fitzhugh was obdurate. He held the
/ CRATER rigidly to his word. When he
| left the building and walked down La
| Sale street he possessed nothing save
the clothes he wore. He had not
cent in his pockets. He had not even
a place to sleep. The inimical Quigg
had seen to that Yet, entering the
portals of the Board Of Trade, he felt
again that eXaltation he had expert
enced when cutting his ties with Es-
ther Once more he was free-free
to go his own way, free to mount to
the pinnacle he had set himself, un-
hindered by an alien hand.
The gallery was crowded, for news
of the upheaval had spread abroad,
but Fitzhughs height enabled him to
see over the heads of those in front
| and so into the arena where waged
/ the thunderOus combat. The wheat
pit was in parOXysm, ungovernable
and volcanic. The bulls, all but rOut-
! ed, were making a desperate stand.
But it was hopeless. The ground tot
tered beneath them. Their frenzied
rushes were met by the imperturbable,
unconquerable bears, and they were
ever forced to retreat snorting, bel
lowing, but unquestionably beaten.
At the height Of the conflict, when
| the battle din shrieked it's loudest,
the closing gong sounded and the
days session was over. The indicator
on the wheat dial pointed to 50 cents.
Fitzhugh rushed from the gallery,
| showing people right and left, and
took the stairs five at leap, figuring
his profits as he ran. In the Office of
Burton & Burton he found Hunt, who
seized his arm, clapped his shoulder,
hustled him into the street, rejoicing,
congratulating and boasting all in the
same breath.
Didn't we lick 'em, thought he
ratified on. "rve made two hundred
and twenty-five thousand, and you
well, not quite so much, of course, but,
considering the investment, very fair,
Fitzhugh, very fair"
With these encouraging words he
handed over check for $2S, 800. Fitz-
hugh very calmly inclosed it in the
| empty morocco wallet, returned the
wallet to his pocket, and buttoned the
flap over the pocket
Eyes, very fair" he concurred,
| without smiling. VERY fair, as you
say, Hunt" His cooIness, however,
was all assumed. Beneath, he was
trembling with excitement