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m CHAPTER IV.- Continued. "I agree with you, Ike. If I had the tcering of this UillluK, I don't think I would take any chance of tempting them to dump and grub tho profits by currying it much over '200. But you can't toll what 'Cam' and those four eyed dentists at tl Broadway will do." "Yes, put der iss anuddcr fins, Clio, dat makes me sit up tint plink about her goln' ofor two hundred. To morrow's Friday der fifteenth." "Of course, Ike, that is something to be reckoned with, and every man on the floor and in the street as well has his eye on it. Friday, the 18th, vould break the best bull market ever under way. You and 1 know that, Ike, and the dope shows It, too, but you have got to stack this up against it m tills trip: No man on tho floor knows what Friday, the 1 8th, means better than Barry Conant. He has M' irked it to the queen's taste many a lime. Why, Harry would not eat to day for fear the food would get stuck in his windpipe. He's never left the pole for a minute; but suppose, Ike, Harry had tipped off 'Cam' that all Hie boys will let go their tilers, and most of them will take one on the nhort side over to-night for a supersti tious drop at the opening: and sup pose 'Cam' has told him to take them all into camp and give her a rafter-scraper at the opening, where would old Friday, 18th, land on to morrow's dope-sheets? Bring up the average, wouldn't it, for five years to some? I tell you, Ike, she's too deep for me this run, and I'm goln to let her alono and pay for the turkey out of loan commissions or stick to plain work-day food." "Zame here, Cho. Say. Cho, haf you noticed Pop Prownlee to-tay? lie baa frozen to deh fringe off dat Sugar crowd ess fough some von hat nipped Ms scarf-pin unt he vos luyln' for him .irf he game out. He hasn't made a trade to-tay unt yet lie sticks like a stamp-tax. I ben keeping my eyes ou him for I fought he hat someding un his sleeve dat might raise tust von W tropt id. 1 dink Parry has hat deli s-umo itear. He nevor loses sight of him. yet Pop hasn't made a trade to tay, unt here id Irs 120 minutes of der Klo.se unt dere is Parry in deh center again whooping her up ofer two hun dred unt four." harvest of the bulls and the slaughter of the bears. Others than Ike Hlnonieustein re marked upon the tact that Bob Brown ley had hung close to tho Sugar-pole all day, but when the close had come and gone without his having anything to do with the Sugar skyrockets, he dropped out of his fellow-brokers' minds. Wall streot has no use for any but the "door." The poet and the moouer would bo no more secure from iiiterrupfion in the center of the Sahara than In Wall street be tween ten and three o'clock. Some sage bus said that the human mind, like the well-bucket, can carry only its fill. The Wall street mind always has its till of budding dollars. In con sequence, there is never room for those other interests that enter tho normal mind. Friday, the i:;th of November, drift ed over Manhattan island In a drear drizzle of murrow-chllllng haze, which signs of frothing. More than all, I had one nf those strong nowhere-born lunvherfM'iarileil intuitions common to those living In the stock-gambling wot Id, which made me feel the creepy shadow of coming events. As on that day a Tow weeks before, tho crowd was at the Sugar pole, but its alignment wus different. There in the center wore Bnrry Conant and his trusted lieutenants, but no opposing rival. None of those hundreds of brokers showed that desperate resolve to do or dlo that is born of a neces sity. They were there to by or sell, but not to put up a life or death, on-me-depends-the-result light. Those who wore long of stock could easily be distinguished by their expressions of joy from the shorts, who had seen the handwriting on the wall and were filled with uncertainty, fear, terror. The demeanor of Barry Conant and his lieutenants expressed confidence; they were going to do what they were there to do. They showed by their tight buttoned coats, and squared shoulders that they expected lots of rush, push and haul work, but apparently thoy anticipated no last-ditch fighting. Tho gong pealed and the crowd of brokers sprang at one another, but only for blood, not flesh, bone, heart and soul; just blood. The first price on Sugar was '-'11 for 8,000 shares. Some one sold it In a block. Barry Conant. bought it. It did not require three eyes to see that the seller was one of his lieutenants. This meant whnt is known as a "wash" sale, a fictitious one arranged in advance between two brokers to establish the basis for the L trades that, are to follow -one of CHAPTER V. Thursday, November 12, was a memorable day in Wall street. As the poug peeled its the-game's-closed-tlll-another-day, the myriad of tortured souls that are supposed to haunt the treacherous bogs and quicksands of the great exchange, where He their earthly hopes, must have prayed with renewed earnestness for its destruc tion before the morrow. Never had the stock exchange folded its tents vlth surer confidence of continuing li.3 victorious march. Sugar advanced with record-breaking totxil sales to 207 Vi and the final half-hour carried the whole list of stocks up with it. In that time some of the railroads jump ed ten points. Sugar closed at the very top amid great excitement, with Barry Conant taking all offered. Dur ing the last 80 minutes It had become evident to all that the board-room traders and plungers, together with many of the semi-professional gam blers, who operated through commis sion houses, were selling out their Htock and going short over the open ing of tho Wall street hoodoo-day, Fri day, tho 13th of the month. But it was also evident, with the heavy selling at the close and stiffness of the price, which had never wavered as block after block was thrown un the market, that some pow erful interest as well had taken cog nizance of the fact that the morrow was hoodoo-day. At the close, moBt of the sollors, had they been granted another five minutes, would have re purchased, even at a loss, what they had sold, for it looked as though thoy had sold themselves into a trap. Their anxiety was intensified by the publication, a few minutes later, of this item: Barry Conant in romiriR from tho Hugur crowd uftor this closo remarked tn a follow broker: 'lly throe o'clock to morrow, tho 13th, will htive u nt'w mean iiiK to Wall street.' This wum Interpreted m pointing to a terrific Jump In riuiir m-mnrrow. "The street" knew that the news bureau that sent out this item was friendly to Barry Conant and tho "ays em," and that it would print nothing displeasing to them. Therefore, thlB lutul be a foreword of the coming 'To-Morrov's Friday der T'irteenth. just missed being rain one of thoje New York days that give a hesitating suicide renewed courage to cut the mortal coil. By ten o'clock it had set tled down on the stock exchange and Its surrounding Infernos with a clam miness that dumped the spirits of the most rampant bulls. No class in tho world is so susceptible to atmospheric conditions as stock-gamblers. Many a stout-hearted one has been known to postpone the inauguration of a long planned coup merely because the air tilled his blood with the dank chill of superstition. Because of the expected Sugar pyrotechnics, stock exchange members had gathered early; the brokers 'offices were overcrowded be fore ten; the morning papers, not only in New York but in Boston, Phil adelphia and other centera, were fill ed with stories of the big rise that was to take place in Sugar. The knowing ones saw the ear-marks of the "system's" press-agent In these stories; and they knew that this in dustrious institution had not sat up the night before because of insomnia. All the signs pointed to a killing, and and a terrific one pointed so plainly that the bears and Sugar shorts found no hope in the atmosphore or the date. Bob had not been near the office the afternoon before, and as ho had not come in by five minutes to ten, I de cided to go over to the exchange and see if he were going to mix up in the baiting of the Sugar bears. I hud no specific reasons for thinking he was Interested except his recent queer actions, particularly his hanging to tho Sugar-polo, yet doing nothing, the day before. But it Is one of tho best established traditions of 8tock-gambledom that when an op erator has been bitten by a rabid stock he is invariably attracted to it every tiice afterward that it shows un echo, It Mutinied through the hall; Sold." It una Bob. He had worked his way to the center of the crowd and stood In front of Barry Conant, He wus not the Bob who had taken Barry Conant's guff that afternoon a few weeks before. I never saw him cooler, calmer, more self-possessed. He was the incarnation of confident power. A cold, cynical smile plaved around the coiners of his mouth as he looked down upon his opponent. The effect upon Barry Conant was different from that of Bob's last bid on tho day when Beulah Sands' hopes went skyward in dust. It did not. rouse in him the wild, furious desire for the onslaught, that he showed then, but seemed to quicken his alert. prolific mind to exercise all Its cun ning. 1 think that. In that one mo ment Barry Conant recalled his suspi cions of the day before, when he had wondered what Bob's presence in the crowd meant, and that he saw again the picture of Bob on the day when he himself bad ditched Bob's treasure- train. He hesitated for Just the frac tion of a second, while he waved with llghtllng-llke rapidity a set of finger signals to his lieutenants. Then lie squared himself for the encounter. "2r, for r.,000." Cold, cold as the voice of a condemning judge rung Bob's "Sold " "an for fi.000." "Sold." "85 for fi.000." "Sold." Their eyes were fixed upon each other, In Barry's a de fiant glare. In Bob's mingled pity ami couteuipl. The rest of the brokers bushed their own bids and offers un til it could have truthfully been said that the floor of the slock exchange was quiet, an almost unheard-of thing In like circumstances. Again Bnrry Conanfs voice. "85 for Ii.000." "Sold." "2C for fi.000." "Sold." Barry Conant had met his master (TO UK CONTINMIIOI) ) TAKING NO MORE CHANCES. Keepers Had Special Cartridges For Poor Marksman. Dr. Seward Webb at a dinner at Shelbtirne Farms, his great. Vermont estate, said of a certain poor marks man '. "Visiting his Kngllsh brother-in-law, he shot the head keeper in the leg the first morning he tried pheasant shooting. Tho man limped away curs ing horribly. Next day be had wretch ed luck, though the wounded head keeper wlthottV malice had assigned htm to a fairly good place. Bang, bang, bang, went, his gun every few i seconds, but not. a bird fell before it. He wus much embarrased. It seemed, too, that at each of his misses tho under keepers smiled at one another oddly. Finally his cartridges gave out. He hurried to the nearest keeper and demanded more. There ain't no more, sir." the man answered. 'No more? Nonsense. Why, you've got at least 1,000 in that box' The keeper Hushed and stammered: 'Ah, but them ain't for you, sir. They're for unother gent. They've got shot in 'em, sir.' " KlDNEYjmOUBLE Suffered Two Years Relieved In Three ATonfts. those minor frauds ol slock-gambling by which the public is deceived and the traders and plungers are handicap ped with loaded dice. In principle, it is a device older than slock exchanges themselves, and is put to use else where than on the floor. For lustunce, four genuine buyers want a particular animal worth $200 at a horse auction. Its owner's pal starts the bidding at $100. and the four, not being up in horse values, are thereby induced to reach for it at between $400 and $."00. But human nature, whether at horse sales or at stock-gambling, loves to be "hlnkey-dlnked" as much as tho moth to play tag with the candle flame. In five minutes Sugar was selling at 221, and the frantic bhorts were grab bing for It as though there never was to be another share put on sale, while Barry Conant and his lieutenants were most industriously pushing H just beyond their reaching finger-tips, either by buying It :ir fast as It. was offered by genuine sellers, or by tak ing what their own pals threw in the air I was not surprised to see Bob's tall form wedged in the crowd about two-thirds of the way from the cen ter. JOvory other active floor member was there, too. Uvea Ike Bloomen stein and Joe Barnes, who seldom went Into the big crowds, wore on bund, perhaps to catch a filer for their Thanksgiving turkey money, perhaps to get us near the killing as possible. Bob was not trading, although on the day before, he never took his oye off Barry Conant. I said to myself: "He Is trying to fathom Barry Conanfs movements," but for what purpose puzzled mo. The hands of tho big clock on the wall showed that trading had been 80 minutes under way, and still Hurry Conant was pushing up the price. Ills voice had just rung out "JR for an part of 5.000" when, like HIS DUTY AS HE SAW IT. Had Been Told to Carry Out the Pro visions, and He Wanted Them. The widow of a villages grocer was industriously placing the large, rosy cheeked apples on the top of the. di minutive shriveled ones In the barrel when Farmer (Hies entered the es tablishment, according to the Roches ter Herald. "I want, that tub o' but ler." he said, "an those bams, and that lot o' sugar, and" The shop keeper rubbed her bunds together with delight. "Yes, sir," she boamed, "de lighted to serve you, I'm sure. And what else may I supply you with?" 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