Show NO MORE CHANCES CHANC E S dy by WILLIAM H young hoary chuao was juet just like othor other pompio only moro so deeply imbedded in hia his nature was a strong desire constantly to got something for nothing ho ile did not gamble but ho tie kept a wary oyo eye upon tho the lottery and upon the markets ile hod had adoth for trait ile was a devoted admirer of miss sally Alan mannoring noring but it was thib admi admiration tation that bothered bothur cd him if I 1 cd boniv sot enough of tho the bluff stuff together ho lie eald said to himself hime olf id pop aitho the question but bang hang it im afraid I 1 never will 1 lucre here I was ono one thing that young couso did not understand that was that tho the great way tn mako make money sany anywhere whore today ie is to save it small SUMS counted with him ila wo was invariably casting thorn thom upon tho waters of fortuno as a fisherman casts a worm to catch a fash nut but henrys bait always left tho the hook and ho never got anything in return Ilo however wever it was as winter and honry was hit lift hard and ho lie spent a good many evenings at tho the homo horns ot of aliss 1 mannoring to was clerking it und ho lie eald said to himself that ho lie would mould lay aside a lattio amonoy all ho could papare paro sl st Il was building a lit itlo mite mito of a house up on the hill building it to lot let and henry hoped against hope that somehow he could crapo up his courage and propose to mon 10 miss sally and that ho could scrape 4 up enough money by spring at bonat to sot up with miss sally in that lit tie house so ho he shunned tho newspapers and nil all the literature containing alluring offers in the shape of small investments and shoved ahn lottery way back in his mind and only thought about miss bliss pally sally and tho aliouse time ho ilo amassed finally the just and full sum of 50 fifty td dollars ollars think of it henry cousa comm had bad always mado fair wages ho waa was a good worker he was a clover clever lad yet never nover in his life before had ho he possessed tho sum of 50 I 1 ought to do lion henrys rys better ter judgment told him Is to take this to sally and let lot her keep it to fat mo just tho thing to 0 o do but well henry and hn because instead of thinking merely of renting SIs little house he h took to bull building ding castles in the tho air one ono day a newspaper advertisement caught his eyo eye it was headed by the words fifty dollars ivas sigard by A agustus atkinson the adver ti was very frank and clear and it stated without any reservation that mr air atkinson a large stock broker had inside information on three or four of the active flocks that he know positively what would happen that he had never made mistakes and that ho he had just made a it small fortune for one jot of his clients who ho bod had taken LIs Us advice and had invested only 15 mr atkinson stated clearly that ho he would not accept orders Z that he would merely furnish information for the trifling sum of five dollars per week eek and that his client or customer must invest his money drough the ordinary channels ho lic stated this said mr atkinson to show his good faith down in the city mr A augustus atkinson occupied a port part a pirt pa rt only of a des kroom in a dingy corner of at a dingy bulging he lie was not a broker and never had bad been a broker ho lie know something less neou the stock market than did diana of mad ison square but nevertheless he ho made mado a living and a good one with the drinks thrown in for mr atkinson had bad a system a sure one for him the whole thing u was as very simple when his advertisement had brought in c augh favol five dol lar bills to pay for ita elf and to make on it worth mr atkinsons while to go to work ork mr atkinson would sit down and write rite two sets of at letters theao letters would relate to a certain stock or commodity say X Y Z mr ir atkinson bould advise his western customers cuB tomora to buy X Y Z and would advise his eastern customers to sell it the result was as if able it there waa was any movement whatever in X Y Z just one halt half of his customers won and the other hak halt lost the half that von nyon would naturally toll tell all their friends about the he ad and five fire dollar blila A would pour in upon mr A augustus atkin son SOIL young bouyo couyo grubbed aay avay until he had savel up 55 then he wrote to mr alkia on ton and Ln enclose closel a five dollar bill ho ile stood ready A ath tho 50 to sed it down don to a good firm ho be knew of in the tho city just as soon as mr ift allinson bonded usually hen he made up his mind to it it did not take mr atkinson long to answer his correspondence his advice would consist of two or three words only duy buy so and so or sell so and so out but on a fateful day hie his sor or was aas heavier than usual asual and ho had selected a long ions stock it was aas a stock that had been remarkably active in the last bev e days Ever bory will recall its it name the tho universal confederated american metallic consolidation T N was known on chainao no the uco uca mick tho long iong name wearied mr bir couse and when ho he was halt through with hie life list ho be stopped ho lie had ad tho the first halt to sell tho the stock 00 goo ho be said to himself wearily geo goo iro im tired ill go out and stretch my legs a hit bit mr atkinson is legs took somo time to stretch rotch et business Ju justified stifled it eo so ho he thought and they were stretched no much that they wore were somewhat unsteady une teady when he camo came back ho lie picked up tho the list henry couse cause hsc ho bald said to himself hime elf couso cause eh oh country name that thal derived from cowe cows henry couso cause allons and cows oh ch not bad all right mr couso cause bettor better ah lot me see which half hall la Is thie this lets levs see I 1 mailed those other others what did I 1 tell om em anyway honry couse up in the tho plain plains store atoro was quite quito unaware by what a slender thread hie his fato was hanging mr air atkinsons memory usually was good hut but it had been Imp impaired alred on this occasion by tho stretching process ro cess tho the first lot said mr atkinson why I 1 told cm em to buy suro sure then this half bait must sell 11 all right for you you can sell 11 henry couso cause of frankfort plains tho next day henry couse received a plain whito white envelop with an unsigned slip inside of it this la is what it said sell univ con am met con and do it right away mr couso sold everybody inov knows s now what happened in tho next three days tho battle royal between the american iron canceri and uca mick took place everybody rubem hers born tho crisis when uca mick blick which hau been disappeared from sight night and reappeared again at 15 il it was a crash among crashes henry couso contemplated it with discomfiture go ho lie said to himself for ho he was not nu an adept in the mysteries of wall gee but im a blamed idiot hero here 1 ive 0 been dabbling in U C A and tho the whole bottom haq fal fallon lan out of tho the blamed thing serves me I 1 light ight ill nover never do it again tho the next day he received a check from his broken brokers for on account that was not all they said there was a little more to como come for henry couso cause had not understood tho the import of a sale 1 as distinguished from a purchase ho ile had sold at a high price and delivered at a low price and tho the difference belonged longed bo to him mr atkinson had stretched his lega legs that day to como come purpose for through his sup 4 of memory every customer had sold jec mick on margin and every one had won woin he ile does a larger Lu business siness than ever and perhaps it a just as well for folks to lose through mm kim as in any other way may mr henry couso did not go to seo miss sally mannering on the evening that ho got tho check he lie was too tou much astonished ho lie had to sit up half the night and look at the check steadily for hours thu the next morning he went around however he ile wanted to strike while the iron ars hot hol sally ho he said ive bought boight sl hopkins house and came around to sees it 1 I could put tho the title in your name miss alias sally manuaring Manu ering thought he was crazy but he was rational enough for he sat himself at her side and put his arm around her waist and finally he kissed her and no sign of lunacy finally he pulled a roll of bills from his pocket sally he lie said 1 I want you to take these and keep them for too mo for us im never never going to speculate any more never im through besides he added 1 I own some real estate and im going to marry you and lottery enough for any man whereupon miss misa sally boxed hie his care cars and arid hanry couse he ho just laughed and let her do it copyright by dally daily story pub co |