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And Janet had told him... Nevertheless he was appalled, and completely at a loss to reconcile Hilda with her environment. And then "the broker's man!" At her bidding he sat down, in his overcoat, with his hat insecure on his knee, and observed, under the lamp, the dust on the surface of the long table.
Eight, red. Seventeen, black." It was almost like the boys in a broker's office calling off the quotations of the ticker and marking them up on the board. Leaning forward, almost oblivious to the rest, was Percival DeLong, a tall, lithe, handsome young man, whose boyish face ill comported with the marks of dissipation clearly outlined on it.
He may give his note, but the season of its maturity depends upon the season when his crop matures, lies at the gates of the market where his products are sold. And the security he gives is of a character not known in the broker's office or as familiarly as it might be on the counter of the banker.
So the sight of this activity merely set them on edge with anxiety something must be happening to their stock! Even Oliver was visibly nervous after all, in the surest cases, the game was a dangerous one; there might be a big failure, or an assassination, or an earthquake! They rushed out and made for the nearest broker's office, where a glance at the board showed them Transcontinental at 60.
To the broker's clerk who earns his weekly salary in that street, the Nebraska notion of "Wall Street" is too grotesque for discussion. How easily every phase of American business life may take on the hues of romance is illustrated by the history of our railroads.
At the broker's voice, the dog walked up to him and wagged his feathery tail. Jewel's eager hands went out to touch him, but Mr. Evringham held her back. "He's a friendly fellow," he went on; then continued to the man, "Would you like to sell him?" The question set the little girl's heart to beating fast. "I would, first rate," replied the man, grinning, "but the trouble is I've sold him once.
His lawful kin found themselves hanging over a gulf of debt, and young Granice, to support his mother and sister, had to leave Harvard and bury himself at eighteen in a broker's office. He loathed his work, and he was always poor, always worried and in ill-health. A few years later his mother died, but his sister, an ineffectual neurasthenic, remained on his hands.
To one gentleman, who had loaned him at various times $1,500, the Baron said, recently, that his long- expected remittance had arrived, and he made an appointment with his creditor to meet him on a certain day and go with him to a broker's to procure currency for his Russian gold.
Do you think we'll give up the things we have fought so hard to get? Not much!" While Japson was speaking Pelter had stepped back into the garret. Now he came again to the window, at the same time whispering to his companion. "Hello, Dixon!" he called, as if to somebody behind Tom. As was but natural, the youth below turned quickly, thinking some friend of the broker's had appeared.
I am not at all afraid of making any body acquainted with it; and if I did not fear making Mr. I have already taken care to have the broker's depositions taken before a lawyer of reputation and merit.
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