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Then there came upon him to reinforce this want a burning sense of defeat. He remembered Uncle Peter's first warnings in the mine about "cupboard love;" the gossip of Higbee: "If you were broke, she'd have about as much use for you " all the talk he had listened to so long about marriage for money; and, at the last, Shepler's words to Uncle Peter: "I was uncertain until copper went to 51."
Good-morning! yes; but they've not come in, evidently. It's the Viluca Mr. Bines, you know; he's bringing his sister back to me. And you?" "I'm expecting the folks on Shepler's craft. Been out two weeks now, and were to have come down from New London last night. They're not in sight either. Perhaps the gale last night kept them back." Mrs.
"Everything wiped out, I tell you Union Cordage gone down thirty-five points, somebody let out the inside secrets and God only knows how far Western Trolley's gone down." "Are you all in?" "Every dollar you knew that. But say," he brightened out of his despair, "there's the One Girl a good producer Shepler knows the property Shepler's in this block " and he was gone.
The belated guest arrives, enveloped in a vast cloak, and accompanied by her two nephews, whom Percival Bines recognises for the solemn and taciturn young men he had met in Shepler's party at the mine. Mrs. Gwilt-Athelstan, albeit a decorative personality, is constructed on the same broad and generously graceful lines as her own victoria.
"Shepler's doing some hard thinking for himself by this time." "Really, you're a dreadful person " There was a knock. "The cabman outside, sir, says how long is he to wait, sir?" "Tell him to wait all night if I don't come; tell him if he moves off that spot I'll have his license taken away. Tell him I'm the mayor's brother." "Yes, sir." "And, Jarvis, who's in the house besides you?"
Uncle Peter did succeed in walking as far as Madison Square. He walked, indeed, with a step of amazing springiness for a man of his years. But there, instead of reposing in the sun, he entered a cab and was driven to the Vandevere Building, where he sent in his name to Rulon Shepler. He was ushered into Shepler's office after a little delay. The two men shook hands warmly.
Consolidated is no now, and it'll be up to 150 by April at the latest. The others may go beyond that. I wasn't looking for the game at the time, so I didn't give it any thought, but now, you see, there's our chance. We'll plunge in those three lines before they start to rise, and be in on the ground floor." "Now don't you be rash! That Shepler's old enough to suck eggs and hide the shells.
Twice Percival caught Shepler's regard bent upon them. It amused him to think he detected signs of uneasiness back of the survey, cool, friendly, and guarded as it was on the surface. At parting, later, Percival spoke for the first time to Miss Milbrey of her engagement. "You must know that I wish you all the happiness you hope for yourself; and if I were as lucky in love as Mr.
Don't you suppose Shepler knows what he's about? there's a boy that won't be peddling shoe-laces and gum-drops off one of these neat little bosom-trays not for eighty-five or ninety-thousand years yet and Relpin, even if he was drunk, knows Shepler's deals like you know Skiplap. They'll bear the stocks all they can while they're buying up.
Relpin was full of lovely talk and dark hints about a rise in copper stock, and another rise in Western Trolley, and a bigger rise than either of them in Union Cordage. How that fellow can do Shepler's business and drink the stuff that makes you talk I don't see.
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