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His broker was always Buckbee, that gay, laughing Beau Brummel who had given him his first start in the world. It was Buckbee who had met him when he first came to the Waldorf with his assays and his samples of ore and, after much telephoning and importuning and haggling, had arranged for his interview with Stoddard.
Now he might step in and get a judgment against you and tie up every share you've got; but all he wants and he told me so himself is four thousand shares of Tecolote. That gives him control and, I'll tell you frankly, he's going to get those shares." "Oh, he is, is he?" said Rimrock and then sat silent while Buckbee bit the tip from a cigar.
That big dividend that I absolutely counted on to meet all those obligations was held up it wasn't passed. But here's the point: the money is still there, right in old L. W.'s bank; the only question is how to get it out. You show me how I can borrow on that tied-up dividend and I'll pay you back every dollar." "The easiest thing in the world!" exclaimed Buckbee.
"Well, listen to this then," went on Rimrock eagerly, "let me show you what Buckbee can do. I dropped in at his office, after I'd received my roll, and he said: 'Want to take a flier? "'Sure, I said, 'here's a thousand dollars. Put it on and see how far it will go. Well, you can believe me or not, in three days' time he gave me back over two thousand dollars."
By George, I felt good, to go there with two thousand dollars and come back with a big roll of yellowbacks; but before I went away he introduced me to a friend and told him how to show me the sights. "This friend was a broker, by the name of Buckbee, and believe me, he's on the inside. He took me around and showed me the Stock Exchange and put me wise to everything.
"But we do!" broke in Buckbee, "that stock is legitimate. The people that buy in will get rich." "But the people who buy last will lose," she said. "I know, because I did it myself." "Oho!" began Buckbee, but at a glance from Stoddard he drew back and concealed his smirk.
But Buckbee, who was likewise in an expansive mood, told in turn everything he knew; and the following day, as Rimrock thought it over, he wondered if he had not been wrong. Buckbee had assured him that the stock on the market represented less than half of the Navajoa capitalization; and if that was the case it was hopeless, of course, to try to break Stoddard's control.
"How much do you want?" asked Rimrock and fetched out a great sheaf of Navajoa. "Well not Navajoa," said the banker uneasily, "we have quite a lot of that already, on brokers' loans. Mr. Buckbee, you know. But if you would just put up, say two thousand shares of Tecolote " "No!" "We could loan you up to two million."
In place of his black sombrero and the high-heeled boots that had given him his entree in New York he appeared one evening in a top hat and dress suit, with diamonds glittering down the front of his shirt. It was a new plunge for him, but Buckbee supplied the tailor and Mrs. Hardesty launched his debut. She had almost adopted him, this baffling, "free" woman, and yet she still had her reserves.
I'm in the market to buy!" "Well, how much do you want, then?" began Buckbee eagerly, "it's all the same to me. As long as it moves and I get my commission I don't care who buys the stock. But I'll tell you one thing you'll have to put up more margin if you start to bidding it up. Twenty per cent., at the least, and if it goes above thirty I'll demand a full fifty per cent.
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