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It was filled with the offices of lawyers, doctors, agents for machinery, for emery wheels, for wire fencing, for mining-stock. Their gold signs shone on the windows. The entrance was too modern to be flamboyant with pillars; it was quiet, shrewd, neat.
I kept only first-class boarders, had high prices and succeeded." "Did you never have the mining-stock fever, and invest and lose?" "Not to any dangerous extent. One or two parties, in whose judgment I knew I might confide, indicated to me where to invest, and I fortunately lost nothing, while I made a little.
If I would only consent to let the directors think that I was the one who had passed upon and accepted the mining-stock collateral which had taken the place in the bank's vault of the good, hard money of the depositors well, I could see how easily the dreadful crisis would be tided over; and besides earning the undying gratitude of the family, her father would stand by me and I would lose nothing in the end.
I promised her that I would shoulder the load, or at least find some way out for her father; and when she asked me how it could be done, I was besotted enough to explain how the mining-stock business had really passed through my hands as it had in a purely routine way and telling her in so many words that everything would be all right for her father when the investigating committee should come to overhaul the books and the securities.
Ellen looked at him, trembling, and very white under her knot of roses. Andrew held out a paper and tried to speak, but he could not. "For God's sake, what is it?" gasped Fanny. Then Mrs. Zelotes spoke. "That old mining-stock has come up," said she, in a harsh voice. "He'd never ought to have bought it.
Not more than ten seconds did the pretty widow embrace me, but that was time enough, as I learned to my sorrow, for her to extract my pocket-book, containing the five hundred dollars I still had remaining from the sale of my mining-stock, and not one dollar of which did I ever see again. I had to pawn my watch to get away from Chicago, for the police failed to find my pretty widow.
Lewis; "fifty'll get you a thousand any time, my lad. It's a lead-pipe at twenty to one. But say, with all these Petroleum Pete oil-stock grafters and Dawson City Daves with frozen feet and mining-stock in their mitts, a man's got to play them close in to his bosom to win out anything. Competition is killing this place, my boy." In the Turkish room Percival found Mrs.
Besides, Adrian will never get over the drop in the mining-stock which ruined him Rudyard Byng's mine.... It's natural for Adrian to hate him, I suppose," she added with a heavy sigh.
"What is it?" asked the small man. The milkman sighed wearily. "Oh, slow up yer jaw, and gimme a chance sometime," he growled. "I want to git home an' git my breakfast. I'm hungry." Flynn began hurriedly finishing off Rosenstein, talking with no less eagerness as he did so. "Well, it's Bonaflora mining-stock, ef you want to know," he said, importantly.
Saxham, diagnosing the man's fever to realise and depart, wondered what secret, desperate motive lay at the back of his hurry? The reason was soon evident. Like thousands of other men, professional and private, the physician had been a dabbler on the Stock Exchange, and had gone in heavily for South African mining-stock, and had been ruined by the War. It was a year of ruin.
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