Cleveland County herald., 1920-04-01

watching him from the corner of my eye"
 He's taken a fancy to you. Otis IS the biggest man in La Sale street"
 Fitzhugh glanced at his watch.
 Bring him over," he said. q can spare q couple of miuutes.'
 Bring him over? Bring him to you?"
 By aii means."
 Such staggering indifference Hunt could not understand.
 ''Well, I'll be -"
 Don't do it, Hunt. My times very precious this morning."
 Otis received the mandate with mingled astonishment and admiration. Then he smiled and did as he was told, While Fitzhugh looked down into Otis steel-gray eyes, shaking the lean hand and exchanging perfunctory words of pleasure, he thought of that other time, less than two years ago, when he had faced this man, had threatened his life, had forced him to sign a check for ten thousand dol lars. Less than two years-but how much had happened since! The in troduction led to a dinner invitation for that evening.
 'We dine at eight" were Otis part ing words.
 While FitZhugh entered his brokers office q minute CT two later his mind dWolt not upon the wheat deal he had I, it.Ii irri, f Fate, nor yet upon the man whom he had just left. He was thinking solely eff Kathleen Otis.
 He dressed with such extraordinary care that Haki despaired of ever pleasing him.
 Yet il was scarcely seven when, at last satisfied that his appearance could not be improved upon, he swung out of the marble entrance of the apartment building and walked up the drive toward Otis home, quar- ter of q mile away. The same stout butler whom he had once roughly treated met him at the door. Otis re- ceived him in the library. In little while dinner was announced, and host and guest repaired to the spa ciouS dining room, furnished in the style of the Elizabethan period, and dined--alone.
 A black pail enveloped Fitzhugh. All his sparkle and snap vanished. He could not or would not, conceal his chagrin, admirable actor though he was.
 Not until dessert was over did Otis reveal the basis of his hospitality. q had purpose in meeting you today, MT. Fit2hugh, as I had in inviting you here tonight"
 q had surmised as much"
 Otis lighted cigarette and extin- guished the wax match with elabo- rate care. q understand, Mir Fitz- hugh, that you are a very wealthy man.
 FitZhugh inclined his head. Briefly what l have to say is this: | In the Chicago wheat pit there is a certain clique of bulls whom l and three other men desire to rout. Al ready We have them on the run, but to make our victory complete and thorough we must have more capital five millions more, at the least" He stood up. eff you will pardon me moment I have something l should like to show you"
 He went out, returning presently with large envelope and pad of writing paper Taking seat near his | ntc af bn envelope and spread them upon the table. now cleared of everything save q vase of flowers and some brandy l and cigarettes. With characteristic precision he began detailing his req 1 sons for believing the then panic 1 stricken condition of the wheat mar ket would continue until May, or even beyond, selecting, as he talked, divers papers from the array before him, submitting them to his auditor, or re- ferring to them for corroboration.
 Fitzhugh, however, seized some slight excuse for soon interrupting him. and taking up the thread of the argument where he had broken it, carried 1t along with sureness that displayed an irreproacnaDle knowledge of the subject In hand. When he fin ished several sheets of the paper were covered with figures and Otis was regarding him in quite new light.
 "You show most thorough knowl- edge of the wheat market Mr. Fitz- hugh. I can see you have studied it very exhaustively."
 "Tve studied 1t for little over year,
 Otis smiled. 'Of course you are jesting?"
 'I solemnly assure you that all I know about wheat I have learned in that length of time. There are some men, MT. Otis, who can learn more about a given subject in few months than others can in as many years. It's us much a matter of work as it Is of brains. Now, when I am sufficiently apthucad over. a thiDO I apDIy mySplf