Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-07-08
FLASH Another OF Those Men VINO
Have Made Chicago the Wonder
city-the City of Purple Dreams.

Flash Another OF Those Men VINO
| Have Made Chicago the Wonder
city-the City of Purple Dreams.
VINO was a born leader of men. Per.
maps he saw in that momentarv flash
another of those men who have made
Chicago the Wonder City-the City
OF Purple Dreams-another of those
who, rising from the depths of obscur-
lty, have amassed fortunes, achieved
power, beside which the most eXtrava-
CANT fiction appears puerie. He
thrust his hand across the table.
I'm with you, Dan" he said.
1t was in the following December,
during the height of the Christmas
| holidays, that FitZhugh was intro.
duced to Symington Otis This day
was notable one for renewing casual
acquaintances.
The past year, although 1t had
added not a little to his capital. had
failed to carry Fitzhugh as high as
he had intended it should. He had
suffered many re:erses, for his reck-
less habit of plunging often carried
him backwae.. as we'll as forward. But
these setbac'ls, if keenly disappoint-
ing, We're not diScouraging, nor were
they Improbable. He learned by
each of them, using them as stepping
stones. He never made the same mis-
take twice.
| Attred faultlessly. cigar between
his teeth, malacca stick under his
arm, he was standing in the rotunda
of the Board of Trade that December
morning, reading kilograms just hand
| ed to him, when Otis entered, accom-
panied by three or four men. among
whom was Hunt. Otis had glanced
several times at the striking, black
| bearded man standing short distance
away absorbed in opening and scan
| ming the yellow kilograms, before he
! asked:
who is that fellow? Anyone you
| know"
He indicated Fitzhugh. and the 9TH
THE greatest financial genius" said
Hunt, I've ever known"
| Otis looked again at Fitzhugh, who
had finished his kilograms and was
moving off. Majestic looking DEVIL"
he observed. Might make a tirst-class
villain for melodrama. I've noticed
him several times of late. believe
suppose you call him over, Hunt?
think I'd like to meet him."
| With glad acquescence Hunt hur-
ried after Fitzhugh and caught him ex.
!, citedly by the shoulder.
What do you think, Dan?" he cried
/, joyously.
Fitzhugh dropped his cane in mock
excitation.
''The Bank of England's failedr' he
gasped.
| Otis wants to meet your
II knew that long ago. was
watching him from the corner Of my
eye"
He's taken fancy to you. Otis
is the biggest man in La Sale street."
| Fitzhugh glanced at his watch.
Bring him over" he said. 81 can
| spare a couple of minutes"
Bring him over? Bring him to
you?"
by all MEANS"
Such staggering Indifference Hunt
could not understand.
well, III 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 d check for ten thousand dol
lars. Less than two years-but how
much had happened since! The in
PRODUCTION led to a dinner invitation
for that evening.
1--WE dine ct eight" were Otis part
ing words.
While Fitzhugh entered his brokers'
| office minute or two later his mind
dwelt not upon the wheat deal he had
on hand, not upon the whirligig Of
Fate, nor yet upon the man whom he
had just left. He was thinking solely
of Kathleen Otis.
He dressed with such extraordinary
care that Haki despaired of ever
pleasing him.
Yet it 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 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.