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Updated: September 29, 2025
You have seemed such a mere boy to me that, in spite of your giving again and again proof of what you are, I have been putting you off. Then, too " He halted, and his look was that of one surveying delicate ground. "The bucket-shop?" suggested I. "Exactly," said he gratefully. "Your brokerage business has been invaluable to us.
It seemed that we had suddenly been looked upon with disfavour, and I half suspected he thought we were spies of the police, who had recently received numerous complaints of the financial activities of the fortune tellers, who worked in close harmony with certain bucket-shop operators in fleecing the credulous of their money by inspired investment advice.
Wilson, her late husband, dropped some money over an investment in connection with the bucket-shop that I spoke of, and I think she suspected John of having let him in. She may have been mistaken, but you know what ladies are when they get an idea into their heads." "Did you know your aunt well?" "No; very slightly. She lived down in Devonshire and saw very little of any of us.
We piped you off on that lay about two weeks ago and it looked good to us, and we played it for a winner, see? You got introduced to me, and found me a pretty good sort, and we got thick together you know all about that. Also, you get introduced to some new brokers, who said they'd take good care of your margins maybe they only ran a bucket-shop, but you didn't know it! All right!
Louis to Tom Cleage's bucket-shop and pay him eleven hundred dollars to corner the wheat market of the world. That is all I paid him. I could not borrow any more. I joined what he called a "pool." I think it must have been a pool, for I know I fell in and got soaked! That bump set me to thinking. My fever began to reduce.
A successful whirl in the knight-errantry line now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all, and you can't make anything else out of it. You're rich yes, suddenly rich for about a day, maybe a week; then somebody corners the market on you, and down goes your bucket-shop; ain't that so, Sandy?"
Louis, San Francisco, in the towns and rural districts tributary to the cities, thousands spoke of Blacklock as their trusted adviser in matters of finance. My enemies and I had them, numerous and venomous enough to prove me a man worth while my enemies spoke of me as the "biggest bucket-shop gambler in the world." Gambler I was like all the other manipulators of the markets.
Just in good solid satisfaction in saving a fine young chap like Billington Rand from the clutches of a sharper and sneaking skinflint like old Bucket-shop Gallagher." Raffles Holmes was unusually thoughtful the other night when he entered my apartment, and for a long time I could get nothing out of him save an occasional grunt of assent or dissent from propositions advanced by myself.
But now a new factor had come into the game. I spread out the paper and stared at the head-lines: "Black Matt To Wed Society Belle The Bucket-Shop King Will Lead Anita Ellersly To The Altar." I tried to read the vulgar article under these vulgar lines, but I could not. I was sick, sick in body and in mind. My "nerve" was gone. I was no longer the free lance; I had responsibilities.
Mavick's own quarters not the study off the library where he received visitors whom it was necessary to impress had an executive appearance, and were, in the necessary appliances, more like the interior bureau of a board of trade. In fact, the witty brokers who were admitted to its mysteries called it the bucket-shop. Mr.
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