Show efrom ani london i moneymaking MONEY makino MAKING ON the EXCHANGE lawrence reeve who has been spec elating in stocks found it almost as difficult a matter matt efto eito to set about breaking breaking the news of good fortune as he would woul have found it to break the news of bad fortune had he by ill III luek luck lost five live hundred pounds instead of gaining them thom he hardly knew how to approach the subject to say that he had been casually presented with the money by a stranger whom he had met in fleet street and whom he had obliged with a 4 liht for his hib lugar would he knew seem little more preposterous ito to thal that that good lady his wife than it would seem to her to say gay that lid he had bought certain pg property I 1 erty cert certain aln ain airy alry nothings rather rathor one day oay for fifty pounds them theril as it were the next for five hundred and fiat nifty fifty and he be had much doubt of his ability ability to make her really credit such an astounding fact he decided that the best plan would be to begin by showing her the money it was in crib erlb crisp p bank of england notes fifteen of til them thom in J of a it hundred pounds apiece piece a alece becq mrs heeve ree bee ve had perhaps never seen so much money at one time in her life before ocemay live a good while and egenbe even be worth a good many thousands of our own without eyer ever overseeing seeing fifteen hundred pounds in tangible shape before us but she bore the sight quite philosophically and was not in the them leake leate overcome by it perhaps if it had been gold it might have impressed her mire seriously lima land fand so you have been selling all the stock lawrence 11 she said gravely andare meaning to put it into esbine some of those thebie swindling companies is not that ita it now the subject of shares or of the sale jofs 0 stock had never been mentioned beaw between een them but mrs reeve had known without being told ever since the night of the prospectuses prospect uses that something of this kind was being done you are quite wrong my dear ear he re le plied piled lied 1 I have not been beep selling out alethe all ail the stock I 1 and I 1 hope I 1 am not going to it to any swindling company and then he explained to her as lucidly as he could what wha was the real state of affairs y ana and that there being be 9 some somo trifle oven over the fifteen hundred d due duo ite ine to him on the fhe bala baia balance gice fice of his ad account count he had invested this trifle in a new watch vatch and chain for her and nud in some feminine tackle or other othor for the girls and that he would take it as an especial favor if she i would oblige him with a kiss and inform fo ym him if it she did not think it a most extraordinary stroke of good luck luck inde indeed eci eol she said but I 1 doubt it is fairy money and will ne never neven verdo do us any good you will never value it as if it you had worked for it and some fine morning we shall wake up and find we have merely dreamed about it besides she added more I 1 seriously if you have gained it I 1 suppose some one else has lost it and there is perhaps greater trouble in somebody alses home about it than theres there is joy in ours then reeves beeves with a pleased benignant manner of superior intelligence explained still further that his wife wa was wrong h again hain ain aln that ho he had it on bro brokens brokers kerys authority that this money had not been lost loft by anybody that the man andu who first bought dought the shares shares had immediately I 1 sold them t em again at a very little joss loss i tu the next fiedt buyer in his turn had sold at at a further loss los and so bonill through a succession of buyers and sellers it was probable that the shares had bad found their present level without inflict inflicting ting on any anyone one a damage at all corresponding 0 noting with til the benefit derived by himself in oace face he made mide it out to his own satisfaction t Q ni that this most ag agreeable retable windfall was nob odys money heoney and mrs reeve keeve hi the end feeling sure of nothing but hut bu heind her own dense ignorance of tho the matter half believed him hyfelt she ghe hb jelt felt aishe had haa shaid that it surely could noi bethe bothe be the same sort of mone money y as people got iii in return for work sha recalled legends that told how gold easily won vron had on oft being put away by and by been beell found fo to have changed into dry dr y leaves and aud she slie smiled aih ash a she caught herself herleif fancying these crisp crip bank notes of her husbands huband 98 similarly 1 metamorphosed t hosed fand and guessing thoughtfully what ind kind of leaves th they ap would be rose leaves 0 or r oak or w willow illow but at the same time she was very willing to persuade herself ail ali in a va vague ao of way ay i thatis that it might be mone moue 7 sent seni thein them by a special overruling providence de hicl fici out of other mens great abundance anca to su supply i aply their greater need oi or the good woman thought it in all humi reward foreward to their greater merit and if BO so it could only have been sent to be applied to one especial use it had been sent that thab thabit it might serve as tho the wedding portion of their eldest daughter who was to be married very soon I 1 to secure therefore that it should be so applied become mrs reeves especial object axt fc will come in very useful just when we want it 21 she sho said you could perhaps hardly have spared five hundred pounds 0 o give I 1 t to Q kate kater this autumn without it put twill will be just the thing thin then A she e went on a little faster seeing that her husband was about to reply and doubting from the expression of his hi sTace face that he was not going quite to fall ini iri with ller her views it will be such a nice start for them and william NV illiam I 1 do think is opo one who vill take aro caro care of his wms money whether you tie it up or not noi and you can put back the other thousand pounds into the funds we shall have just justas as much interest coming in as before but carry if I 1 iise tise use the money a month or two longer I 1 may easily enough double it reeve who had been content to work a whole year for four hundred pounds had learnt now how easy it was to make much more than that in much jess less time without work at all and of courso course he was wis anxious to apply his newly acquired knowledg knowledge 9 e as quickly and as often aa as possible 1 or as easily lose it ly his wife ke replied plied let us be content with the good we have got and go on as before lawrence reeve however was otherwise 4 minded and though mild enough in his rule yule cule still would be loving his own way and his own opinions he was wag willing and 11 glad giad a ll 11 to promise that kato kate should have the h e money for he loved his children and it was his dearest object in life to do well to them but she must not have it just then it must be placed out to grow and so the end of it was that after long debate reeve went off to bed without having made any promise to put back the money into the funds and ai nd indeed with a contrary resolution in inis jha own mind it does dods not at all come within the plan of this history to furnish a debtor and creditor statement of lawrence reeves cash accounts from week to week during this eventful period of his life from froni of old it has been well known how great are the facilities for going down hill lilii but in reeves case ho he thought for a while wllie that the natural laws of gravitation had been at least suspended if not reversed in his favor and that he was to nind find assent as easy as others found descent to make a long story short let us say that instead of putting baa back his fifteen fi hundred undred pounds into the funds I 1 he speculated that is operated with it again ba bought ugh with I 1 it bank shares gas phares shares insurance shares railway shares finance shares and what not and as it happened that he had taken the tide tlde of fortune at the flood his affairs prospered marvellously when he first entered his new and exciting career those weeks had just set in when all manner banner of new companies were being launched launch td at the rate of about a dozen a week when the shares of all of them went to a premium e m 1 u in as a matter of course and wre when n a as s yet the stock exchange had not laid clown down the law which forbids dealings in new shares before allotment reeve in the simplicity of his ids heart imagined he had found out a royal roya mine of wealth which was unknown to others and which he lie alone was to be privileged to work east andrest and west and north and south did bensend his applications for allotments and from all quarters came the gracious ris responses pones he sold at once and realized his premiums and entered again into ev every r new schemes he began to th think in premium jumping b by y no means SL al con trade he even acquired that supernaturally horrid jingo lingo unknown probably tt lu cien bonaparte or to professor max may muller himself in which the fraternity frat of stockbrokers stock brokers transmit their secret messages thus when mrs reeve picked up a telegram which ran mysteriously thus sheep trot irot dove and muir muff duck ghost fiend and bob twist 11 he was able to explain without any embarrassment barras barrass men t that being translated it read as follows sheep trot doye pealer realer balers swill wiil 11 sell seli ll caledonian stock at a hundred and an finuff duck and south eastern at seventy tive five 1 alend on ana and bob twist all 2 irs IMs 1 midhat midland north western and lafr vale are ire firm nirm he had acquired the art ats as well as the lauga langa language hige fige of those who heap up wealth he knew better than most men how to sell the thing lie he had not got and afterwards buy it at a reduction in time to deliver he knew quite as well how to buy the thing he did not want and sell it at a profit before he was forced to take it and these are the two golden rules of moneymaking money making he who knows themy them and fails to become rich 1 falls fails by his own and annell he who at ut tempts temp tato to become rich by share bhare dealing dea ling without i some knowledge of themis them is pretty s sure ure to burn his fingers at midsummer he had been worth just bare two tho thousand lisand pounds it was as yet only september and he now reckoned himself worth good ten thousand in securities at least securities tle tie S IV was the name given to them on the exchange E which were verel daily increasing in value valde he had quite made up tip his mind as to the course which he intended to pursue he should continue to ope operate rater as he had been operating up to christinas christmas and then gradually wind vind up tip the whole of his share transactions and invest the proceeds in s some 0 nie souni souna sound stoel stock which would brin bring ghim g him in five or six per cent perhaps if it any safe foreign loan should happen to be in the market just then he might take u up some portion of it and so realize a higher rate of interest he thought at any rate that he was not too sanguine in I 1 I 1 i hoping that at the end of the year bedight he be might have realized enough to bring him in with careful investment a thou sand a year 11 he was a conscientious man he knew that to do well for another requires even more concentration of will and singleness of purpose than to N do I 1 well for oneself and he doubted that he was wag not doing his duty iia ila as well weli badow son brothers brethers as he lin had yd been proud to think willi he did it of old not that walker dowson had by word or sign given him any hint that he thought so but reeve felt that he was not entering into iii ill the e spirit io of the thet thing bing as lie he had been used to do ad and that he regarded the fluctuate fluctuations oas ois of indigo and sugar with a languor and indifference that be he had bad not hot known in former years and with which he in no way now regarded the th dally daily share lists he had debated the matter with himself and had come to the conclusion that as he had now made enough money to live upon it would be well for him liim to resign his is clerkship clerk clerkship shi as soon as kate was married but mad henad e not yet sent in his resignation nor told to d his wife of his intention to do so mrs heeve reeve had ch changed anaed less than he had changed she had began to find more new now dresses for herself and the g girls ir 1 g at her d disposal 1 sal sai than she had been used u s e d to but 0 o age he was still content to wear her old silks and win and indeed wore them so persistently as to excite her husbands so too the girls might wear their new jewelry iut jut ut she must shine she s said sald id with her own light or not shine at ath all ail ather at her ber time of day she was glad giad iad lad and thankful for the good for fortune turye tulye which had so marvellously set in upon them but it was wai with rather a timid than an exulting gladness only bebau because se of the brightened prospects of or her children did she sho seem really to rejoice visibly A month before the time fixed for kates wedding leeve reeve gave his wifel wife with a profusion which three months earlier would have lave seemed mad extravagance a check fora for a hundred pounds in order that their girl might leave them with no stint of festive doings or nic nig niggardly outfit and when the wedding took place which it did in october octoba with ail oil happy auspices she kissed her daughter through her tears giad glad iad lad most of all that the promised nive five hundred pounds which she had se seen en planted out with many mally fears really had grown into a thousand which sum was fast settled fettled on kate for her ui life I 1 in a the trusted funds so that comey hat might this much at least was safe fon for her she did not half like reeves planos plan pian of giving up the hammersmith house housed to go into a larger and more expensive one at Kens kensington inkton but he had talked her into it and the notice had been given at to leave at christmas but when the subject of resigning the clerkship in mincing lane came up and it was proposed that they should live on their means then she sho held her own beeve reeve used all the arguments he had without success he made out a list of all the shares which he held in the new companies and showed heni heri her what high premiums they were worth he showed her certificates which impressed her with the notion of immense wealth this is to certify she read that lawrence reeva eglof esq of iran ham mers mer gentleman i 14 the p proprietor ro 0 eletor of tiie the two hundred shares share of fifty fiffy pounds each numbered dively from to in the general dry goods insurance company why that alone is ten thousand pounds lawrence she said lieu oh no they are only ten pou pounds lids a share 11 1 1 lie he bained I 1 paid explained x in like ganner manner te he explained to her how deeply lie he was interested in cooke taylor co limited in the til tilbury shi shipbuilding building company in this bank and finance company in a dock here and an insurance omee office there how he had been asked to take a seat at such and such a board add abd had serious thoughts of bf really becoming a director of some of the companies her he was concerned in in short he said enough to m make 1 re r e simple honest mra mrs reeve beeve believe that ma t they hey t really were beyond the need of the income coming from the clerkship but even after admitting her belief she held hel d fast to her desire and gained her own way inducing lawrence to promise that he would hold his place another six months if as she elie said it were for no other reason than just that they might 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