Show MH BIB M gagi w aa baeff i X H ft 1 1 inbi HK bla aiu 3 iu ji j i TH T H iliin fsr by DAVID GRM GHAHAM MM of MC OW fatma uv taif A booe A annas rayj XV v TRAPP TRAPPED ED AND TRIMMED bleie ate aie two kinds of dangerous that tempt us arid and those that hat don t that loll don i dive us it false notion of our resisting powei and so HO anak us its camy vict victims lins of the I 1 thought I 1 knew my self pretty and I 1 believed there nai w as nothing that could tempt me to neglect ni in business NN ith this delu blon of my strength firmly in mind illicit ft inn anita became a tunsta tion to neglect ni gleet business i 1 said to my self to KO go up lip town duling dining business hours houra for long ions 1 linches inches to spend tile mornings morn InRa selecting loeis arid and pres preb ants for foi her tase thin go look like neglect of bu busl giness and would br w so 80 in sonio some men put hut I 1 c could rit t neglect bu biness ba I 1 do allf thin ili bo cause my at aars are so BO well ordered that a few houis bouts of absence now noa and thin make no lie difference pio plo bably ably acrid me back t eshel arid and clerel hen I 1 left tile at halt past tN Iv on oil that fateful wednesday in tune june my mv business baj never in fit bitter shape 1 I 1 entile common had dropped a point and a quarter in two days ii dently it was mas at last on its way F slowly lowly down donn toward I 1 could free unselt and take profits As AB for the coil enterprise nothing could pos sibl elbl happen to disturb it I 1 was waa all ready for the first of july announce alent and boom never ever did I 1 hive it a lighter than when I 1 joined anita prid end her friends at sher sheilva ry a it seemed to me hr friendliness was nas less per lobs a appeal ances arid and the sun still was blight tho the all dell clous my mv health perfect it tool took wl all the strength of all the monson had put on my natural spirits to keep keel me from being exuberant aberant ext I 1 hid bid till illy intended to be back at my office halt half an hour before the ex change closed this in ill addition to the obvious precaution i of leaving orders that the taci to tel telephone phone me it if tiny any thing should occur about which they had bad the least doubt nut dut so comfort able lid did im vanity make me that I 1 forgot to look rt at my mv watch atch until a quarter to time thre 1 I had a momentary qualm then rc reassured assured I 1 asked anita to uke take a walk with tile me before N e bet out I 1 aclei honed my light hand man and partney ball As I 1 had thought everything even ever thing was 29 quiet the exchange was as closing with textile slug gibli and down doan a quarter anita and 1 I took a car to the wilk NN e w m albed for an hour talking with loss less con 8 it a lilt a and not more friendliness thin than ever beffi e and m when hen I 1 left tier her I 1 for the first time felt that I 1 had left a good inapt assion when I 1 my lay es I 1 from force of habit mechanically went ill dl to the ticker and dropped all in an instant front the pinnacle of heaven into inferno for the ticker was mas just spelling out these words I 1 mowbray ay langdon Lang doii president of the textile sailed balled un till expectedly expect edi edli on the kalser kaiser wilhelm at noon A 2 per el cent tit raise of tile the divia bend rate of textile co common binnion from the present 4 per cent to 6 has been determined upon and I 1 bad staked up to perhaps be ba I 1 yond my I 1 limit of safety that textile would tall fall nail ball was watching narrowly for some borne sign that hat tile the news was as bad its as he be feared nut it cost coat tile me no effort face expressionless I 1 was to keep my like a man who ho has been killed by lightning arid and lies iles dead with the look on ills his face that lie he had just beffie the bolt struck him NN why by didia t 3 ion oil tell me tilts his said I 1 to liall hall when I 1 had bad you on the he phone 11 my ly tone wan quiet enough but the very question ought to have shown him that mi im artin was like a 4 soc in a cyclone 0 me o heard it just after lang off ak was as his him reply we weve ve been t tr ing to get YOU yoi ever since I 1 no e gone everywhere hare after textile stock very few wil nill sell or even lend and they ask the lest pi price ice was ten tell points above to da y a alost closing ng A sti etione ong tl p s out that textiles ate aie to be rocketed ten points up already on the mete rumolt rumor already ten dollars to pay on i every ehni shaie e I 1 was I 1 sli chert cirt and I 1 eloit ahoi t more than two to hundred thousand I 1 felt the claws of the alend ruin sink into the tha flesh or of my shoulders ball atall dorsit t know how 1 I fled fixed I 1 rement remain her ber I 1 thought and lie he austri t know 1 I lit a cigar with nith a steady hand arid and waited for joe joes a next wol da I 1 went to see Jeril jenkens dna at onie once lie ho went on jenkins was then first vice president of the textile trust lies iles all cut ut ill up because the news got out says langdon arid and ho he acre the only ones who knew so he mas the announcement to hav bay been made for a month not till lung liing don returned lie he has haa had to conf liro in it though that wits was the only WA to free ills his crowd from suspicion of in tending to i ilg ig the market all right sald said I 1 I 1 have iou ou seen the after afternoon roon pa per lie he asked As aa he held if I 1 out to me my ee caught big textile head bead tines fines then hashed flashed to solia eota something about my going to 0 o duarry MINS leisl all right said I 1 arid and with mith the lit in my hand N auit i lit to in im outside office I 1 kept on ciril toward in ins inner of flee tabing mi ing wei my luv shoulder to tho the alliet don t let au body in ili tile nie behind the iosca andi and lock it door my body vent ventu kit 1 I to come to life again mid arid my face to as lunch na as it could of the chos chaos that was heaving in tile me like ten tell thou thousand sallI waning aar ing devils three months buoie in tho the same situation till nn rumbled a instinct have limped nit oi out 1 I 1 01 I 1 had not aen gambling in the re ret it Amp AmPil ilean can monte alonte carlo cailo all those eat m without geating used to the downs doaris as aa well mell as to tile hie ups tills I 1 lial hat I 1 have not albling an all thing ling of t tho lie blizil I 1 less etian in ni lit composition tu to nie me it aas aa finine n game with excitement tho the chica fictor arid and the sure lunina whether the lie little ball lolled my wa ian or 01 not I 1 wat wai the financier the gambler arid and adaui till buier er and that hail had been tit ni prinell tit al asset for tire the man who ho wins in the long run at any of the cicat 11 eat ganies of life and they are all alike Is the man with nith the cool head and the only man whose abose lead head Is coot cool is he who plays for the ganies game B sake not caring ginalli whether he wins or loses on any one pla because he feels that it he ha wins toda to da he will lose to moi low hut but now a new faltot had conic come into the gunie game I 1 spread out the paper arid and stated staled at the headlines hlach matt lo in wed society item helle rhe me bucket shop king will lead anita LI gerbl to tile the altar I 1 tried to read the vulgar article under whose vulgar jim urns s but I 1 could not I 1 was waa sick sick in body and in mind MI nerve was jone fone I 1 was no longer the fi rice ee lance I 1 had responsibilities that thought another in its ita tialin an ugly gil gi inning lining imp that leciej at tire me and hut but she it wont oil t have vou vol now I 1 ahn will she must I 1 clied aloud starting up till and then tile the anim baust 1 I bragd up and down donn the floor sh aking my iny clenched gnashing my teeth all kinds oi of furious commands command and a truly ridiculous exhibition or of impotent rage for through it all I 1 saw c leai leaila ly enough that she bho t have nie me that all those thase people I 1 1 d I been aning to climb up ill among would kick loose roy my mingling clinging n i birds ands arid I 1 ua am they nie ine disappear I 1 hey who nho were none too gentle and slow blow in ili dia disengaging engaging from those of own lifelong aiso clates who had reverses raea of fortune what conell conah bation could blak black matt ex eart and she the arid and the ability to deceive myself had gone now that I 1 could not pay the purchase price for tier her ahe I 1 ho full hid bid oun tous neBB ness of rov my bargain for her dropped its ita veil and brood naked before roe me at last dis gustel arid and I 1 flung filing down domn again and dumbly and helplessly inspected tile tho ruins ot of my projects pi ejects or rabbet the tha ruin ot of the one project upon which aich I 1 bud bad my bruit set I 1 lid hid known knon I 1 cared for her but it had seemed to me she was simply imply one more the latest c vt UK 1114 objects on walh I 1 was ivas lit in the habit ot of living in will mill from froin time limp to time to make lualis the he anie tuot inon deeply lu tik I 1 no now saw m ill chit it ti avii before had I 1 1 imal itlen been in ili laining about an think that thai till 1111 binning tier IKI I 1 hail had 1 d I bihli and that was liia a wholly pi boll firul kiin what I 1 had aten lit in a woid 1 1 sat fact face to fa fad nith mih hat u i of H anell ann ll thai iv man biati at ai and ami mocks another man mail toi fol boll vt lit in III until ile he lins tell it drai draine nr him film against raon r ason all and at nic arid and int icil ert ovi t th tb blink ot of Its N b for ills hla es enis dianing him as aft the magnet mountain ill w and his ship but it la Is not in ili tile ine to never set et was ails an all siege line ilae to it 1 lit oil liebes mar kar by craft or ti chance to lilt hit upon the moment und arid the he spot tot ri the sor ta it ruined cd I 1 paid rio alon I 1 I 1 ra appi arid and trimmed like UK the stupidest slicker that vol v i wandell into aall all A di h to d one no doubt I 1 ut tit 11 roe to it that then don t alov m funeral VI A GENTEEL I 1 HOLDUP iu in ill im childhood at home m n fattier father N was ag ollon often aan awi for foi a week meek oi 01 Ac irking or looking for foi bolk m k alv n nathn of tier had a notion I 1 thu h it a lioy boy should bp be punished anin bv its t tattler lather so A hont N or sh iiii t augel me in what site she rk r raided aided an ali a bilious she alie use to ha ba I 1 ou oil will mt t a good Ni whipping hipping for this oin father codies conies horn honit at first I 1 usiel to wait aalt drig thi oiin onta ol of ten thrashing thrashings thrash ings biffie the ha rood good whip ping raine came to pas biasi hut lilt soon my lily X liff ty I 1 00 r i toe it NA ill HP GREW IN I 1 I 1 A bleily WHITE mind began to employ the interial more profitably I 1 would scheme to escape execution of sentence arid and though my mother NN was as a determined debei mined m soman oman many a 9 the time I 1 con connived ti ived to change her mind I 1 am not ccora wending mending to iti tho the system of de lay in execution of sentence but 1 roust say that in my case it was ie for an invaluable of be line example tile the batlle tangle I 1 know knew I 1 was ails in all human lioba to io fco down the stock block exchange had bad lien olica oitis an hour bour the next morning all textile stocks blocks must start many points higher than they had been at the cloye close must go steadily and swiftly up tip ud a my dserve K serve resources abie lit ira the coal deil deal I 1 should have no cliance to I 1 cover ray my shotts on any tanna less I 1 than the loss of all I 1 had at most I 1 could hope only to save myself mi self float cri criminal crimins minn bankruptcy 1 1 I here was no signal of bitress rii di tress in ili my ole oke AS I 1 telephoned Cc corpe rv prist lent dent of the he interstate intel state trust coni pain pani to stay at his office until I 1 inn WEIS was no signal of di n rny ray man nr ncr as a I 1 foith arid and went down domi to the power trust building not noi did I 1 show or eliat I 1 had il hi lid the shot at sugrim st atene BB as I 1 etiole iro B mt and giec led Lp him birn I 1 wag assuaging ba b way of ill that somo borne I 1 about nw me elthor c had ica cached clied him hill oi 01 would soon boon reach him I 1 knort he biad an 00 e tn in every secret of finance arid and tit in clu liistro lii stry and ahila I 1 believed my secret was waa wholly my own on I 1 hall hal to lot touch lunch at stake with alth him to bank on that wham beri I 1 could as I 1 so easily lc ic Absure assure libil him i I 1 iva I 1 ve ama ne to r V iguest M 0 bob ato buck 9 lid I 1 ilia vu vui i let my housto hou ind coni i lauN announce flip coal plan atwould gi klit mi im a i eat lift and mi it iville kiil him hafl bank lon ion I 1 it nid d im mv ININ tally dally noih to ili alln public on lay wo as noll ou know ot in UK a bis big fol lowing v A it lit id help itria iii inake the flotation HII an it it ii bigger than it h s bound to lo be no cinatti who an notion t h it and ii pon As AH I 1 I 1 lanik lit t that thai I 1 I 1 lie 10 la in a jiff dishi iii lioni tit HH lr niela li in i 1 or ir butk d aki nl i binl th lilt iiiI lisl louv n of high dol if in that I 1 ix bi made the official of ill ili jivanlal gols gils ills n adoll wan aas so ludl elotis that I 1 al lohl im hi i ivian alt I 1 inspect lor for a filom nl lit in it tho I 1 hv aone niad mud ili 1114 mannot when lie li liim him 11 h if 1 to to si KI ik ih wits not ahat aliat liat it amid lave have boon li hi ila had ito im found himself alone be foit a lanona lt nona lunitte who nho was ill a houlb boit on know how hos anxious I 1 inn ilia top to help noll ou to ruthei our Int elsts said haid lie I 1 know tit no man nho has a future hit but not so fast faal not so BO fast man main or COMM sou OU will ap 81 pai hh at out OIK of il tile lie organizing it i torn toni mittit lift hut but v could not afford alfrord to lo have tile annonen pint nt come through any ass shiong arid anil old established ghousi thin linn it notional Nit ional industrial bunk bank NI 1 l noll can call make inake me ilia joint Rul loun I 1 i NA it 11 lilt in ill I 1 urged es well see BOC aid lip hp s I 1 laitio lie 0 Is ol of linit clemn of ahm I 1 att sated ua as it content I 1 I 1 ollin wanted to 0 o put tag ho lilt I 1 bet bebon noll ou anil and 1 acome to go ila alavi k N on oil heal hamd 1 I the nova a of textile lie asked yom YH bald I 1 I 1 jlian lien nu all in fit an inhwan i I 1 lan ian took shape in ILI my mind 1 0 31 it oud raial it tit of tiler tho stock block and I 1 fiust su sa I 1 don t like ilka llly 1118 tilts I 1 ah NN h he inquired 11 au cabine causo I 1 ili sure its it B a stock jobbing acht me ip killed lipil I 1 boldly I 1 know the dividend iia arned I 1 don t like total bort of thing mr air ace buck not because it a unlawful tha th laas law a ait so BO chini clumsy sir that it nian man often inest dB abiud iud thin nut lot b cause it Is IK i ing with till the ieru tation atlon arid and iha h stab lIlly ot of a great on en foi tho sake boko ol of a lew iw of f lilt 1111 sin ut at I 1 hopu bouie giong matthew WAB its roebucks roebuck a only comin tit lift 10 questioned nio me no further fu illier arid I 1 went aa uviah ay condido I 1 t I 1 tint irit m otlien lien the lie crash c cirrio bryie in ill he coining if conita conis it must there would lie no moie astonished main in fit nall all breet than inerny I 1 rot hoi buck how flow lip IK anist have langbe I 1 or rather would have lave daughd laug hd it 11 its his mort bort of hunink lnona la its imo cino etona lu in the human via A prom front hirn climber A in the mills building I 1 want ion to bend for foi the hie news paper at once said I 1 to rishdi arid and tell teem that in my be halt half are going to apply for an all injunction |