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Updated: June 4, 2025
Crashaw toiled to the end, and no one knows how far his personal purpose and spite were satisfied, but he could never impede any more that elusive spirit of swiftness; it had run past him. Crashaw must have suffered greatly just at that time; and the anticipation of his defeat by the Committee was made still more bitter by the wonderful visit of Herr Grossmann.
Challis, turning from his discovery of the Professor's crushed glasses, listened in silence. "This Grossmann," the Wonder said, "was not concerned in my exemption?" Challis shook his head. "He is the last," the Wonder concluded with a fine brevity. "You and your kind have no interest in truth." That last statement may have had a double intention.
He fought his way towards the Porteous crowd, reached over the shoulder of the little Jew Grossmann, who stood in his way, and thrust his hand almost into Paterson's face, shouting: "'Sell fifty May at seven-eighths." It was the last one of his unaccountable selling orders of the early morning. The other shook his head. "'Sell fifty May at three-quarters."
The redoubtable Leaycraft, who, bidding for himself, was supposed to hold the longest line of May wheat of any one man in the Pit, the insignificant Grossmann, a Jew who wore a flannel shirt, and to whose outcries no one ever paid the least attention.
It must remain uncertain, now, whether or not Elmer would have persisted in his endeavour to exploit the Wonder to the confounding of Grossmann, despite Challis's explicit statement that he would do no more, not even if it were to save the reputation of the Royal Society. Elmer certainly had the virtue of persistence and might have made the attempt.
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