Year: 1875

the world.


e can meet the stock, he sand after :


ong pause. = can pay every cent Of IN
debtedness off, tor my mOrtgaged estates
have ample margin. But those new and
non registered bonds, you must see that
our indiscretion does not become publ Z.
Poverty care not for, but dishonor any
thing but that


The false friend, the secretary, mnr
INJURED his assurances that the bonds would
not be allowed to 20 into indiscret hands,
and then saw his cousin leave the room,
enter his carriage and drive away rapidly
toward the West End, and in the direction
Of his quarters in Westminster Square.


"The plot will work without any inter
vention upon my part, he said. Before
the day is gone, the news will be pn0lic
property. All things cannot but work IN
my favor.


Tie started as he heard hoarse cry as
if issuing from many lips in the streets
without. Then he heard the sharp and
quick clang of the heavy iron doors in
front, and then as he hastened from the
room to the front counting room ia order
that he might observe the cause of this
unusual cOmmotion, a stone was hurled
breaking through the costly plate glass
window slivering it into atoms


He shuddered and fell back as he glanced
at the glaring, excited faces Of the sea Of
human beings below him in the street.
There were the men who had invested in
the company "hey we're determi ined and
wild. They had lost their capital they
thought, and were ready 10 resort to any
means or violence to wreak their ven
geance upon the company. Loud and
continued yelis rang from the immense
throng without, and u riot seemed lmnl-
nent, when as loud cry arose for " rs
mond Esmond - the cOwardly secretary
discerning an opportunity to still further
incense the pOpulace against the man
whom he SO thoroughly and unJustly hated
stepped through the window and raised
his hand 70 arrest the attention Of the
crowd.


A lull ensued, a breathless hush, de
sire to hear what the man might say.


You are adopting a wrong course,
said Eugene Faber, in destroying prop
erty which will in part hereafter pay your
demands. AS yonder placard says you
will be paid t. the last dollar. 1t was not
in our power to avert the flooding Of the
mines. Disperse, and you will hnd that
no man of you will lose dollar by the
Australian Gold Mining Company"


But the crowd were not to be 50 easily
assuaged They were irate, excited, and
were ripe for any rios. Among them were
many poor men who had purchased frac-
tional shares, and who now were fearful If
losing their little capital.


: Esmond Esmond r they cried.
. Let us hear what he has to say.


Esmcnd is not here said Faber.
- You had better dlsperse OF We viii call
an officer Of the law to read the mot act.


Some man, leader evidently Of the
crowd, began to harangue them with an
incendiary speech as Eugene Faber with
drew from the window. He melted them
on to riot he told them Of the sWindle Of
the over issue Of bonds lnfiamed with
anger and excitement, the vast thrung
growing more numerous at each moment,
moved on in the direction of Cecil Es-
mond's quarters IN Westminster square.


And Eugene Faber with Well satisfied
smile upon his features. Inuttered ~ HIM
self


They are upon the right traes. Moth
ing but immediate escape eau save Cecil
Esmond from arrest"


And placing his hat On his head he hur-
ried from the building and started quickly,
by a circuitous route, frr Westminster
Square.