Show t V wo i if JO By FREDERICK B JOHN UN DIRT BURT JEW UPHAM PH M ADAMS M A. A Author o of The Th Kidnapped Millionaires 0 Colonel Col Monroes Monroe's Doctrine Etc COPYRIGHT 1002 BY All rights rIts 1003 DY I j D AD ADAMS ls I reserved I A. A J. J Daxa EL fir CHAPTER Continued How much L. L O. O have you he 1 demanded rt Thirty five thousand shares replied replied replied re re- plied Mr Mason How many have you sold addressing addressing ad ad- dressing his son About seventy-five seventy thousand m. m Fine outlook Forty thousand shares short on a stock with only a hundred thousand shares in all growled Randolph Morris By God if I pull out of this thing with a dollar Ill I'll place it where you cant can't find it with a set of burglars burglar's tools Randolph Morris glared at his son 5 fumbled for his glasses and bent over the tape five Fifty bid for L L. O O. it read thousand thousand thou thou- Bid sixty for any part of ten K sand shares shares- that telephone I IGo Go to the exchange Mason and get geton geton on the other end of this wire and Ill I'll give you yop the orders Shortly before noon a news agency I made public a statement which hastened the crisis It read The deal in L. L O O. was engineered t r by Mr James Blake the dashing j young operator whose advent in New NewYork Newet et York was signalized by the recent upheaval up up- l in prices For several weeks Mr Blake has quietly been absorbing absorb absorb- t 0 r. r ing blocks of L L. O. O To-day To he secured secured se sea cured ten thousand shares from General General Gen Gen- t. t J I eral Marshall Carden which with the holdings of Mr Air John Hawkins gives the syndicate of which Mr Blake is the head absolute control of this valuable valuable valuable able property Another railroad company company company com com- pany has been a bidder for control I but the the Carden stock gives Mr Blake t the coveted advantage Itis is rumored that a known well T- T banking house short house js- js hort r this stock to the fhe amount of n nearly rl i forty thousand shares It opened at 29 and rapidly advanced to 75 and J then by leaps and bounds reached It is believed that only a few scattered scat scat- scattered shares are yet in the market and that the stock is cornered nij Later Later It It Is rumored that the iI banking house of Randolph Morris 4 Company has suspended s 's CHAPTER Father and Son 1 One by one the directors of the bank had entered the room where Randolph Morris was making his fight against overwhelming odds Some he recognized by an almost ime imperceptible imperceptible im im- r perceptible e bow but no words came from his lips as he bent over the tape The faces of the directors were pale and drawn from tension When L. L O. O had mounted to toe e eighty dollars a share Randolph Morris Morris Mor Mor- ris changed his tactics and attempted to check the rise by throwing all his holdings on the market In less than ihan an an hour he hurled thirty-five thirty thousand shares into the speculative whirl whirl- pool It was like stemming Niagara with witha a straw The price did not sag The powerful interests back of L. L O. O pledged three millions of dollars for j this stock and clamored for more In response to a demand for margins margins mar mar- gins Randolph Morris deposited several several sev sev- eral millions cash and valid ties Alarmed by rumors patrons of the bank formed In long lines and demanded demanded demanded de de- their deposits There was no gleam of hope but grim In defeat the theold old banker stood by the wheel and watched the ship of his fortunes as ast swiftly neared the reefs of ruin she ahe t 1 1 A clerk entered and handed to Randolph Ran dolph Morris the yellow slip of paper containing the bulletin He read it ity 1 and y slowly crumpled It In his hands threw it on the floor Grasping his massive headed gold-headed cane he be brought It down on the glass glassI I dome which covered the delicate mechanism of the ticker One of the f a f 1 Jt flying fragments cut his cheek and a afew afew afew I few drops of blood slowly trickled down his face The corporation of Randolph Morris Morris Mor Mor- I ris Company is bankrupt he said rising to his feet and looking Into the I faces of his astounded associates The Board of Directors will convene at once and take formal action to that effect Be seated gentlemen and come to order You may make the motion for suspension Mr Mason When Randolph Morris adjourned the directors' directors meeting he looked about for his son but he was not in the room He found Arthur Morris within with with- in the caged enclosure occupied by bythe bythe bythe the paying teller In his hands were several packages of money What are you doing there demanded demanded demanded de de- Randolph Morris Cashing a check was the sullen reply You are a thief as well as a fool roared Randolph Morris his hand on the door and his features convulsed with passion No officer of a bank on the point of suspension has a right to accept or withdraw funds and you know it He grabbed Arthur Morris by the shoulder and dragged him through the narrow doorway My curse goes with that money he shouted his face convulsed with rage You have dragged me down downto to shame and poverty in my old age I hope by God that everything you buy with that money will give you t t f A f f l 1 To To which encouraging advice Randolph Randolph Ran Ran- dolph Morris made no reply and the son left the room As Randolph Morris was tenderly carried down the steps through an angry crowd and placed In an ambulance ambulance lance he opened his eyes and looked longingly at the building which bore his name Thus he made his last Journey away from the roar and turmoil turmoil tur tur- moil oll of Wall street a mental physical physical physical cal and financial wreck cast on the shores of oblivion by a storm terrific and unforeseen Arthur Morris stripped of all power by the action of the directors stood amid the wreck of his fortunes He was a witness to the compromise compromise compromise compro compro- mise by which a representative of James Blake Company agreed to terms which while protecting the depositors depositors depositors de de- called f for r the sacrifice of the millions which once stood In his name The fifty thousand dollars he had succeeded succeeded suc suc- at the last moment in drawing draw ing from the bank was all that was left to him s Through the long hours of that eventful day General Cardens Carden's eyes were fixed on the stock board Few of the excited customers of James I Blake Company recognized the ex ex- I banker and none knew the reason for I his absorbing interest in the fluctuations fluctuations of the stock labeled L. L O. O Who was this man Blake and why had he offered to place a fortune in his hand Why had this stranger come from out the West and by the magic of his touch transformed a worthless stock into one of so great value that millionaires struggled madly madly mad mad- ly 11 for Its possession When he took his last look at the stock board L. L O. O was quoted at He nervously drew a slip of paper from his pocket and made a rapid calculation If Blake chose to realize at the quotation General Carden's Cardens Cardens Carden's Cardens Carden's Car- Car dens den's share of the profits would be o. o No massive d cane be dorm on the glass dome pain I wish to God God- His voice was choked he blood surged to his temples Is hands clutched at his throat a d with a gasp for breath he fell he fly to the floor Before Arthur Morris re what had happened others wee we e by his fathers father's side The old financier financier finan- finan cier partially recovered co before a physician arrived but again sank Into a most alarming condition Apoplexy said the p in this his answer to a question first attack he asked hur Mor ris i iI I dont don't know was the e y Ive seen the governor so mad speak several times but nev nova so so bad badas badas as this FAs f fAs As he spoke Randolph Randolphl Morris opened his eyes and they asted d on his son S I Take him away he said averting his eyes Take him give giVe me a chance to live 1 Youre all right gov r or sald said Arthur Morris as the gave him hima a signal to sta stay out of Keep cool and you'll c come me o out t do n top top I feel as bad as you do about jut it but theres there's no use iu lu kicking gi Brace p and take your medicine l 1 e a a. man we may win out yet r i near nearl eight hundred thousand dollars The gures puzzled him and he made the anew only to find it te This represented more than the f tune he had lost A lid ild impulse came which urged him a demand of Blake the sale of his s ck What right pad had he to imperil imperil im im- peril that hat which would Insure the hap- hap pine pines of his daughter and the repose of hi old age Hurriedly he retraced his el eJ a until he reached Broadway and gain he entered Blakes Blake's office A An hour had passed and he hardly dare look at the quotations Perhaps Per Per- hap haps the deal had collapsed Perhaps Per Per- hap haps O. O 1461 called out the he man who was reading the toe tick tick k Two thousand L. L O. O at Ai A exultant shout went up from the cro d cro d of men who surrounded James Bla His handsome face was aglow wit pleasure as they slapped him on the pack ack 64 y Jy Y congratulations general Bla e said grasping the old soldiers soldier's han ban Our little pool is working Do you feel like getting out fat at general I wouldn't adI advis ad ad- vis I you to do so but if you wish it ca be arranged I have a customer who will take the stock ock off 0 your hands hand at that figure I I I 1 I am entirely satisfied to let It alone said Gen General ral Carden drawing himself up proudly Handle my y stock according to your judgment The subordinate should not question l f. f the policy of a victorious command command- er j Mr Burton wishes to see you J whispered a clerk to io Blake and the j E famous head of the firm turned and 3 left General Carden 1 He heard the shouts of victory and f found himself shaking hands and A laughing with strangers He felt a a. strong grasp on his shoulder and I turned to see James Blake i We settle with Randolph Morris Company at he whispered whisp red r 11 Your share of the profits is nearly a a. million and a half Ill I'll call at your house this evening a and d give you a a. check for the exact amount r j I can find no words to express my feelings said General Carden deeply deep deep- deeply ly affected I 1 do not think that I am entitled to so large a share of these r I profits I really I 1 really I do not know what to say to you Mr Blake God bless and reward you Dont thank me replied James Blake A strange expression came over ver his face and a look of pain to his dark eyes I am not not not-I I should not not not- He paused released General Cardens Carden's J a hand and turning abruptly rushed across the room and vanished into an Inner office In the turmoil of his own feelings General Carden paid little attention to this strange action Six hours before before before be be- fore he had entered these rooms all ali allbut allbut but penniless He left them more than a millionaire In a darkened room in a remote quarter of the city a haired gray-haired man L' L gasped for breath and moaned in his delirium A great financial battle had been fought Randolph Morris was one of the stricken victims and Marshall Marshall Mar Mar- shall Carden was one of the victors k kIn In th this s age of commercial and Industrial Industrial industrial indus Indus- trial barbarism man must climb to glory over the dead and mangled bodies bodies bod bod- ies of the th losers Commercial competition competition compe compe- has the all horrors and none or of- of fa the chivalry of physical warfare Thoughts such as these came to John Burt when the news circulated that Randolph Morris Morrl had been stricken strick en in his office Th The blow aimed at atthe j the son had fallen with crushing force on the father In the hour of victory John Burt was silent and sad and John Hawkins was not slow to glean J the reason I r wouldn't worry over Randolph Morris he said with a gruffness which was assumed The old man manwill manwill I will recover One stroke of apoplexy f 4 wont won't kill him Write to Randolph Morris said r rJohn John addressing Blake and say that r his personal property is exempt In this Air settlement He has scheduled it as I having a value of nearly a million mimon dol dol- I lare Tare I shall not take it from him A t Hes He's an an old man with daughters and others dependent on him Good for you Burt Burtt exclaimed John Hawkins It Isn't business but but- business Is hell hell hell-as as old Sherman said about war Im I'm going to my hotel to take a nap Where can I see you this this- t evening Dine with me at the hotel at nine What dye say You too Blake i iTo To be continued 1 |