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She refused him definitely at first, but he begged her to consider, to take a month to think it over " Milbrey gasped. Shepler, who commanded markets to rise and they rose, or to fall and they fell Shepler begging, entreating a child of his! Despite the soul-sickening tragedy of it, the situation was not without its element of sublimity. "She will consider; she will reflect?"
I bet Shepler himself will be takin' off his silk hat to your son, jest as soon as he's made this turn in copper if he has enough of Dan'l J.'s grit to hang on and I think he has." "They needn't wait another day for me," Percival told him later. "The family treasure is about all in now, except ma's amethyst earrings, and the hair watch-chain Grandpa Cummings had.
He not only tried to hedge on what he told me, said he'd been drinking absinthe frappe that day, and it always gets him dreamy, but he actually had the nerve to give me the opposite steer. Of course he knows the deal clear to the centre, and Shepler knows that he knows, and he must have been afraid Shepler would suspect he'd been talking. So I only traded a few thousand shares with him.
He was mad to prove to her and to Shepler that she was more a woman than either had supposed, a woman in spite of herself, weak, unreasoning; to prove to them both that a determined man has a vital power to coerce which no money may ever equal. Not until five o'clock had he by turns urged and fought himself to the ferry. By that time he had given up arguing.
That Pacific Cable bill is going to be rushed through at this session of Congress, sure, and that means enough increased demand to send Consolidated back where it was. And then, when it comes out that they've got those Rio Tinto mines by the throat, well, this anvil chorus will have to stop, and those Federal Oil sharks and Shepler will be wondering how I had the face to stay in."
He does most of Shepler's business; he's supposed to be closer to Shepler and know more about the inside of his deals than any man in the Street. Well, I ran across Relpin down in the cafe the other night and he was wearing one of those gents' nobby three-button souses. Nothing would do but I should dine with him, so I did. It was the night you and the folks went to the opera with the Oldakers.
"Good-bye, Miss Milbrey. Don't let me detain you. Sorry I shall not see you again." She gave him her hand uncertainly, as if she had still something to say, but could find no words for it. "Good-bye, Mr. Bines." "Good-bye, young man," Shepler shook hands with him cordially, "and the best of luck to you out there. I shall hope to hear good reports from you.
Or, again, the slaughter was due to the Shepler group of Federal Oil operators, who were bent on forcing some one to unload a great quantity of the stock so that they might absorb it. The immediate causes were less recondite. The Consolidated Company, so far from controlling the output, was suddenly shown to control actually less than fifty per cent of it.
She might even yet regret that she had not waited for him, when his own name had been written up as the wizard of markets, and the master of millions. Since money was all she loved, he would show her that even in that he was pre-eminent; though he would still have none of her. And as for Shepler he wondered if Shepler knew just what risks he might be taking on. "Oh, Muetterchen!
Bines, I'm perfectly reasonable and serious I mean it are you quite sure you didn't lose your wits when you lost your money?" "It may be considered a witless thing to marry a girl who would marry for money but never mind that I'm used to taking chances." She glanced up at him, curiously. "You know I'm to marry Mr. Shepler the tenth of next month."
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