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Updated: June 23, 2025
'We know of your compatriot, then, here in Italy this Jadwin of Chicago, who has bought all the wheat. We have no more bread. The loaf is small as the fist, and costly. We cannot buy it, we have no money. For myself, I do not care. I am young. I can eat lentils and cress. But' and here his voice was a whisper 'but my mother my mother!" "It's a lie!" Jadwin cried. "Of course it's a lie.
But I thought for a moment they had him on the run. You see that my, my, there was a sharp rally. But he's holding on strong yet." The other Pit traders for the house, some eight or ten men, were already assembled, and just as Landry entered by one door, the broker himself came in from the customers' room. Jadwin was nowhere to be seen. "What are the orders for to-day, sir?" Gretry was very pale.
I'm going to buy September wheat, and I'm going to buy it to-morrow 500,000 bushels of it; and if the market goes as I think it will later on, I'm going to buy more. I'm going to boost this market right through till the last bell rings, and from now on Curtis Jadwin spells b-u-double l bull." "They'll slaughter you," said Gretry; "slaughter you in cold blood.
The deal of which Jadwin spoke was the legendary operation of the Board of Trade a mammoth corner in September wheat, manipulated by this same Hargus, a millionaire, who had tripled his fortune by the corner, and had lost it by some chicanery on the part of his associate before another year. He had run wheat up to nearly two dollars, had been in his day a king all-powerful.
He and Jadwin are good friends, I'm told. Hello, it's raining a little. Well, I've got to be moving. See you at lunch to-morrow." As Cressler turned into La Salle Street the light sprinkle of rain suddenly swelled to a deluge, and he had barely time to dodge into the portico of the Illinois Trust to escape a drenching.
After a careful look around, he returned to the forest, and set off at a quick pace in the direction from whence he had come. "Shall we leap upon him and make him a prisoner?" asked Dave, in a whisper. "No," replied Jadwin shortly. "Keep quiet." Dave now understood what was in the trapper's mind, and kept still, and in a moment more the Frenchman was out of sight, moving swiftly to the northwest.
And as Jadwin passed, Landry heard the Bear leader say: "They can cheer now, all they want. They didn't do it. It was the wheat itself that beat him; no combination of men could have done it go on, cheer, you damn fools! He was a bigger man than the best of us." She had seen all that had happened, but she had not understood. The whole morning had been a whirl and a blur.
Although they all spoke in whispers, their arrival was the signal for certain murmurs of "Sh! Sh!" Mrs. Cressler made Laura occupy the front seat. Jadwin took her cloak from her, and she settled herself in her chair and looked about her. She could see but little of the house or audience.
Jadwin had set his mind upon passing the summer months after the marriage at the lake, and as the early date of the ceremony made it impossible to erect a new building, he had bought, and was now causing to be remodelled, an old but very well constructed house just outside of the town and once occupied by a local magistrate.
Dave continued to plead, and in the end it was settled that he should accompany Tony Jadwin and Ira Sanderson on the scouting tour. The three were to go on horseback, and were to return inside of four or five days, unless a turn of circumstances made it necessary to stay away longer. "You take good care of yourself, Dave," said Henry, who was sitting on a bench with his head bound up.
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