Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-05-25

rose from his chair, his puffy eyes
blinking rapidly. You've got this
money, haven't your"
SCOT lit" Fitzhugh laughed. "Why,
Lord bless you, Quigg, l haven't got
the price of a ham sandwich"
"Whatd you do with that money!"
roared Quigg, smashing his fist against
the arm of his chair. How could you
spend over twenty thousand dollars in
two days? You're lying to met"
Fitzhugh's breath whistled through
his nOstrils. He stood up quickly. His
face was very white. For the first
time lie seemed in deadly earnest.
Don't talk too much" he advised
quietly. There are some things l
won't stand, and if you anger me I'm
liable to make that fat head of yours
look like a plum pudding. The mon
ey's tied up in speculation, if you want
to know. You have the choice of two
things: you can either take an equal
chance with me in the speculation, or
you can take my note for what | owe
you. Which do you want?"
NtllllGI CADlOuGu NulkS. i
wouldn't give a cent for any specula-
ton you'd make, or for your note
either. There's only one thing to do
with you. You've played me a dirty,
IOw-down trick, and I'm coming back
the best way can. You're going to
work for me two months longer, and
you're going to work for nothing. I'll
see that you have a place to eat and
sleep, but l won't promise more. At
the end of those two months you're
going to clear out of my sight, and
Lord help you if ever see you again I"
Gentleman to see you, suh," an
nOunced the uniformed negro"
"What name" growled Quigg.
Didn't give none. sub. Said he
wanted to see you about some Florida
orange groves"
Tell him l am very busy but will
see him in FIVE minutes"
"Yes, subj" The negro touched his
cap and departed.
The moment the door closed Quigg,
keenly animated. swung round in his
revolving chair and spoke in a quick
voice to his lieutenant: You're q
Fifth avenue resident. Newport
Villa in France. CotilIOn leader, So
ciety swell-all that. Recently you
bought fifty thousand acres of Florida
land and turned them into a paradise.
You're tired of 1t now and want to
sell at great sacrifice. You follow
meT'
I'm even ahead of You," answered
Fitzhugh. Then his demeanor I'M
derwent a complete change. His man
ner was now heavy with ennui, and
his voice simpering when it drawled
Jaw, really, now, | cawn'tI really
cawn't let 1t go for less than hawlf
what l paid for it. The thing cost me
hawlf a million, y'knOw, and I really
should get three hundred thousand,
because"
He dropped his mask as suddenly as
he had assumed 1t, and running the
thumbs and fOrefngers of both hands
into his lower vest pockets, turned
the lining inside out.
He smiled: Because" said he. SCI
haven't a cent"
These were frenzied days In the
wheat pit. Under the terrific, unre-
hitting pounding of Symington Otis
and his associates September wheat
descended with invincible force. With
every titanic swing of the bears ire
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.
He was unseen, unfelt, unknown-the
verieSt pigmy in a battle of giants.
Down, down went the price of
wheat. with digging velocity that
made the pit totter. 1t touched Sc.
81, so. 1t fell to 20. 20. 90. And
then, in one gigantic crash, as the
bears put forth their last. supreme
effort. the bottom dropped from the
market ana September wheat went %
80 cents.
1t was on this day that Fitzhugh
severed his connection with Quigg K
Peevy. Quigg, repenting his unwise
bargain made in hot-headed moment
Of anger, endeavored to retain his
"star" with alluring promises. But
Fitzhugh was ohdurate. He held the
CRATER rigidly 10 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-
Their. Once more he was free-free
to so 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 F1tzhugh's 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 a paroxysm. ungovernable
and volcanic. The bulls. all but rout-
ed, were making desperate stand.
But II 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
tina no HI,
the closing gong sounded and the
days session was over. The Indicator
on the wheat dial pointed TO 81 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 ctice OF