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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Fame and Fortune Weekly, No. 1, October 6, 1905 - A Lucky Deal; or The Cutest Boy in Wall Street - -Author: Self-Made Man - -Release Date: February 12, 2022 [eBook #67380] - -Language: English - -Produced by: David Edwards, SF2001, and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Northern - Illinois University Digital Library) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY, NO. -1, OCTOBER 6, 1905 *** - - - - - -Fame and Fortune Weekly - -STORIES OF BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY - - -_Issued Weekly--By Subscription $2.50 per year. Entered according to -Act of Congress, in the year 1905, in the office of the Librarian of -Congress, Washington, D. C., by Frank Tousey, Publisher, 24 Union -Square, New York._ - -=No. 1= NEW YORK, OCTOBER 6, 1905. =Price 5 Cents= - - - - - A LUCKY DEAL; - OR, - The Cutest Boy in Wall Street. - -=By A SELF-MADE MAN.= - - - - -CHAPTER I. - -THE WOLF AT THE DOOR. - - -“I’ve been robbed!” gasped Mrs. Hazard, a pleasant-featured little -woman of perhaps forty, sinking into a chair, her face the picture of -dismay. - -“Mother,” exclaimed her daughter Annie, a slender, delicate girl of -fifteen, who sat in a cane rocker, feather-stitching an infant’s jacket -with blue silk, a small pile of the unfinished garments lying in a box -on a table before her, “what do you mean?” - -“The rent money is gone. I had it in this corner of the bureau, waiting -for the agent, whom I expect at any moment. There were two fives and -five ones. They are not here now. Where could they have gone?” - -“The money may have slipped under some article in the drawer, mother,” -suggested the girl, anxiously. - -“No; I have searched and turned over everything. The money is gone. How -are we to face this fresh misfortune?” - -Mother and daughter looked at one another in silent discouragement. - -And well they might feel discouraged since, with the exception of -perhaps fifty cents in silver, the missing money had represented their -entire capital. - -And Jack, the other member of the family, a particularly bright and -ambitious boy of sixteen years, had just lost his position, owing to -the failure of the firm with whom he had been employed ever since the -death of the husband and father, two years before, had thrown them upon -their own resources. - -During the lifetime of Mr. Hazard the family had lived in a rented -house on a side street in a very respectable neighborhood uptown and -had been considered well off. - -Jack and Annie had graduated from the public school and were expecting -to enter the high school with the next term, when their father died -suddenly, and it was found that Mr. Hazard, who had been a liberal -provider, had lived up to his means and, what was more unfortunate, had -neglected to insure his life. - -Of course, Mrs. Hazard had to move to a cheaper home and neighborhood, -for the few dollars she found herself possessed of after the funeral -and other necessary expenses had been paid would not keep them for any -great length of time. - -Jack soon found a position with a wholesale house down town, at five -dollars a week. - -Annie, who was naturally quite expert at fine needlework and -embroidery, preferred to take in work to do at home to seeking a place -in a factory or in a store as a salesgirl, because she was not very -strong. - -But home work was not very remunerative, so that the family really was -dependent upon Jack, who fortunately was strong and healthy. - -Thus they managed to live--exist might perhaps be the better word--in a -very humble but contented way until the boy was unexpectedly thrown out -of work a few days before. - -Fortunately Mrs. Hazard had got her rent together, for the first of the -month was at hand and the landlord’s agent was a strict man of business -and showed no favors to any of the tenants. - -And now at the very last minute, as if to prove that misfortune never -comes singly, the money she had saved by many small sacrifices was -suddenly found to be missing. - -It certainly was hard luck. - -“Somebody must have taken it, mother,” said Annie, after a short -silence. - -“The bills were there this morning after John went out, for I noticed -them,” said the little mother, sadly. - -“And I’ve been in here all the time except a few minutes when I ran out -to the grocer’s. Was anyone here while I was out?” - -“Only Maggie McFadden.” - -Miss McFadden lived in the flat across the hall. - -“You don’t think she could have taken the money, do you, mother?” - -“I don’t want to think that she did,” replied Mrs. Hazard, mournfully. - -“Maggie lost her position two weeks ago because there was some trouble -about her accounts,” said Annie, slowly, as though an unpleasant -suspicion was forcing itself in her mind. - -The McFadden girl, who was somewhat airy and pert in her manners, was -conspicuous in the neighborhood for the number and variety of her gowns -and hats, and the gossips wondered where she got the money to pay for -them all. - -When approached on the subject she invariably said that Denny, her -brother, made “slathers of dough on the races,” thereby intimating that -that was the source which produced much of her finery; but many of her -acquaintances knew Denny better than she had any idea of, and these -persons rather doubted Miss Maggie’s statement. - -At any rate, when she lost her position as cashier of a large packing -house, the neighbors winked their eyes one at another and whispered, “I -told you so.” - -Mrs. Hazard was at no loss to understand what her daughter meant, and -the sigh she uttered spoke her own thoughts as plainly as words. - -“We never could accuse her,” continued Annie, dejectedly. - -Mrs. Hazard shook her head. - -“Poor Jack! What will he say when we tell him?” said Annie. “It will -be such a shock to him. He is so hopeful. He told me only this morning -that as long as we had next month’s rent in hand the future didn’t -worry him. He’d see we got along somehow. Isn’t he just the best and -dearest brother in the world?” - -“I dread the agent’s visit, for he will surely be here to-day. He is -always so prompt. What shall I say to him?” - -“I don’t know, mother.” - -The crisis was too much for them, and mother and daughter wept silently -together. - -At that moment there came a sharp rap on the door. - -Mrs. Hazard started, hastily wiped her eyes, and with a nervous glance -at her daughter, answered the summons. - -Mr. Grab, the agent for the premises, walked brusquely into the room. - -“Good afternoon, madam. I presume you have been expecting me?” - -“Yes, sir,” replied Mrs. Hazard, faintly. - -“I never like to disappoint my tenants,” said the agent grimly. “Here -is your receipt, I suppose you have the money ready.” - -“I am afraid, sir, I will have to ask you to wait a few days,” said -Mrs. Hazard, anxiously. - -“Haven’t you the money, madam?” spoke the agent rather roughly. - -“I did have it in my bureau drawer, but----” - -“But what?” demanded Mr. Grab, sharply. - -“It is gone,” said the little woman, with tears stealing down her -cheeks. - -“Gone!” ejaculated the agent, lifting his shaggy brows, “Where?” - -“I don’t know.” - -Mr. Grab rubbed his chin, on which had sprouted a three days’ growth of -bristly reddish hair, and a threatening look came into his eyes. - -“Madam, this is a very lame excuse,” he said, angrily. - -“It is the truth, sir.” - -“You can’t pay, then?” - -“No, sir; but if you will wait----” - -“Wait, madam! I expect my tenants to pay up promptly. My experience -is that if one can’t pay on the first one can’t pay on the second or -third, and that if you trust a tenant once he always tries to take -advantage of your good nature.” - -“But, sir, I have never failed to have the money ready before, and we -have lived here more than a year.” - -“Quite right, madam; and in consideration of that fact I will on this -occasion allow three days’ grace. I will call at twelve o’clock on -Friday, and if you are not ready to pay then, I will have to serve you -with dispossess proceedings. Good day, madam.” - -Mr. Grab thereupon took his departure, leaving his distressed tenants -in a sad state of perplexity as to where the needed fifteen dollars -would come from in so short a space of time. - - - - -CHAPTER II. - -IN WHICH JACK HAZARD MAKES A HERO OF HIMSELF. - - -When Jack Hazard left his home that morning, after kissing his mother -and sister, as was his invariable custom, he was in good spirits. - -“I’ll get something to do to-day sure,” he said to himself. “Mother -has the rent, thank goodness, and I haven’t that on my mind.” - -He found his particular friend, Ed Potter, waiting for him at the -corner. - -Ed worked in a Vandewater Street printing house, and he and Jack always -walked down town from the neighborhood of Grand Street together of a -morning. - -“Haven’t caught on yet, have you, Jack?” inquired Potter. - -“No; but I’ve a dozen places here I’ve cut out of the ‘World’ that I’m -going to look up.” - -“Hope you’ll connect with one. If you knew anything about typesticking -I could put you on to a job. There’s a shop on Nassau Street wants -a boy to pull proofs, hold copy, and fill in at the case on plain -reprint. If you were only up in the business you could get seven or -eight dollars a week.” - -“I should like to earn as much as that,” said Jack, eagerly, “but I -guess I’ll have to be satisfied with less to start with.” - -“Why, one of these jobs is in Brooklyn,” said Ed. “You aren’t going -over there after work, are you?” - -“Sure, if I fail to get it on this side of the bridge,” replied Jack, -with a determined air. - -“But it’ll cost you carfare every day.” - -“No, it won’t; I mean to walk over the bridge.” - -“You’ll have to leave the house earlier.” - -“I guess I will, and get home later; but when a fellow is looking for -work, things don’t always come his way. However, I mean to try for all -my New York ads first.” - -“Oh, that Brooklyn place will be gone long before you cover all these -other jobs. It won’t be worth while bothering about it.” - -“I’m not letting anything get by me.” - -Which showed that Jack Hazard was a persevering boy: and perseverance -is one of the greatest factors of success through life. - -The two boys parted at the entrance to the freight elevator of the -Vandewater Street printing house, and Jack turned into Frankfort -Street, crossed over to William, and began his daily hustle for work. - -At many places he found a crowd already collected before he arrived, -and after waiting a short time failed to secure an interview, as some -boy ahead of him got the job. - -One place the man wanted him to work every Saturday till ten at -night, and offered him the munificent sum of $3.50 per week, with a -prospective raise of fifty cents at the end of six months. - -Jack refused this, as he believed he could do much better, and besides -he really could not afford to work for so small a sum. - -At another place he found he would have to work on Sunday every other -week, and, this being against his principles, he moved on. - -“I’m afraid I’ll have to strike that Brooklyn place, after all,” he -said as he stepped out of a Water Street ship chandlery that had -advertised for a bright boy and had taken a youth on trial an hour -before. - -A fleet of canal-boats was banked up against the wharves opposite, and -Jack felt a strong temptation to hang around a little while and watch -them take aboard and discharge their cargoes. - -But, realizing that this wasn’t business, he turned away and hurried up -the street. - -“I might as well cross by Fulton Ferry,” he mused; “it’ll save time, -and time is money with me just now.” - -Although the three cents made a hole in the dime he had brought with -him to pay for his lunch, Jack received his change with his customary -cheerfulness and walked on board the boat. - -It was half-past nine, and the boy noticed that quite a number of -passengers were on board as the boat pulled out from the dock and -headed across the river. - -He leaned on the rail alongside a fine-looking old gentleman who held -a little girl of five years by the hand while he pointed out various -landmarks along the receding shore to a stylishly-dressed lady who -looked enough like him to be his daughter. - -“Gran’pa! gran’pa!” cried the child, tugging at the gentleman’s hand. - -“Yes, my dear,” he answered, smiling down on her. - -“Lift me up, p’ease; I want to see, too.” - -The old gentleman raised the little girl and seated her on the rail -while he held her about the waist. - -She looked up and down the sun-kissed river in great delight. - -“Isn’t it b’utiful, mamma?” - -“Yes, dear.” - -Then she noticed Jack’s admiring gaze. - -He thought she was the most charming little creature he had ever seen. - -She smiled in a friendly way, and then with some little hesitation held -out one of her hands to him. - -He took it and shook it gently. - -“Oo is a nice boy, ain’t oo?” - -The old gentleman looked at Jack, and the lady smiled, while the -boy himself flushed a little at the child’s artless remark and the -attention it had drawn to him. - -“Oo! Isn’t dat high!” cried the girl, pointing at the central span of -the Brooklyn bridge. - -“Yes,” answered Jack. - -Just then the engine bell rang, and the boat stopped in mid-stream, -while her whistle gave out several shrill toots. - -Another gong sounded, and the boat began to back and her head to swerve -slowly down the river. - -Jack looked ahead as well as he could and saw part of a large freight -float close aboard. - -Then came a sudden and violent shock that threw the passengers almost -off their feet. - -The boy grabbed the rail, but the old gentleman went down on the deck, -his arm slipping from the child, who went overboard with the shock. - -The lady, who had been thrown back several feet, gave a heart-rending -scream and flew at the rail. - -“Fanny, my darling! Oh, heaven, she is overboard! Save her!” - -The little girl had struggled for a moment on the surface of the river -and then sank out of sight. - -One or two men in the midst of the confusion ran to get -life-preservers, and everybody else, except Jack Hazard, seemed to be -staggered by the calamity, and gazed out on the water with bulged eyes. - -But the boy never lost his head. - -Jack whipped off his jacket, mounted the rail, and leaped into the -water. - -He struck out lustily for the spot where the child had gone down, and -presently saw one little arm and a portion of her golden hair appear on -the surface not far away. - -“There she is,” he murmured, and redoubled his efforts to reach her -before she should go down again. - -But she went under again before he could seize her, and the plucky boy -dived. - -Though encumbered by his clothes, Jack was so much at home in the -water that he had little difficulty in following the descent of -the bright-hued dress the child wore, and he had one arm about the -unconscious little one in a brief space of time. - -Kicking out with all his might, he rose to the surface like a duck. - -A life-preserver floated near. - -Resting the little girl’s head on it, he pushed it before him toward -the ferryboat, the rail and end of which were now black with excited -people. - -Several deck hands were standing outside the folding guards with ropes -in their hands, and the moment Jack was seen to be within reach one of -them flung his line so that it struck the water close to him. - -He seized the end with his disengaged hand, and the men began to pull -him in at once. - -Less than ten minutes from the time the girl was pitched into the river -Jack had her back on board and regained the deck himself. - -Dripping like a large Newfoundland, he was instantly surrounded by an -admiring group of passengers loud in their commendations on his courage -and presence of mind. - -At the same time another throng gathered about the unconscious child, -its well-nigh frantic mother, and the white-haired old gentleman. - -“Come down into the boiler-room, young fellow,” spoke up a strapping -deck hand, “and we’ll dry your clothes for you.” - -And Jack, glad to get rid of the attentions of the crowd, followed his -guide to the warm regions beneath the engine-room. - -“Hello!” exclaimed a grimy-faced stoker. “Been overboard, eh?” - -“That’s what he has,” said the deck hand. “Done what’ll put his name in -the papers, Jim. Jumped overboard after a little gal that fell in from -the rail where she was sitting when that barge run us afoul.” - -“Is that so?” cried Jim. “Tip us your flipper, lad; you’ve got the real -thing in you, all right.” - -“Strip, young man. It won’t take but a moment or two to take the -moisture out of your clothes down here. I reckon you’ll find it hotter -than blazes afore you leave.” - -“It isn’t every fellow would do what you did,” said the sweating -coal-heaver, admiringly. - -“Oh, I didn’t mind it; I’m a good swimmer,” said Jack, modestly. - -“You ought to make a stake out of this,” said the man, hanging the -dripping garments about to the best advantage. - -“What do you mean?” - -“The little gal’s people ought to be grateful enough to hand you out -something handsome.” - -“If it’s money you mean,” replied the boy, stoutly, “I shouldn’t accept -a cent.” - -“You wouldn’t?” gasped the man, in surprise. - -“Not a nickel.” - -“Why not? You’re entitled to something. You ought to have a new suit of -clothes at any rate--the best that can be bought.” - -Jack was silent. - -“Maybe you’re well off and don’t want nothing,” said the stoker, after -giving the furnace a rake with a long iron implement. - -“No, I’m not well off; but I don’t take money for such a service as -that.” - -“Well, you’re a curious kind of chap,” replied the man, scratching his -head and looking the naked but well-formed lad over from his head down. -“I’d take money mighty quick if ’twas me as done the trick. I s’pose -you’re too proud, eh?” - -“You don’t seem to understand,” said Jack, who wished the fellow would -talk about something else. - -“Say,” came a voice down the stoke-hole, “send up that young fellow as -soon as his things are dried. The gal’s folks have been asking for him -and want to see him bad.” - - - - -CHAPTER III. - -IN WHICH JACK GETS A JOB IN WALL STREET. - - -“What is your name, my boy?” asked the white-haired old gentleman who -had accompanied the lady and the little girl on the ferryboat when, a -little later, just before the boat was ready to start on her return -trip across the river, Jack presented himself in his wrinkled and -not thoroughly dried clothes before him in the waiting-room of the -ferry-house. - -The little girl and her mother had been taken to a nearby hotel, in -order that the child’s garments could be removed. - -“Jack Hazard.” - -“And my name is Seymour Atherton. Well, Jack, you have placed my -daughter and myself under the greatest of obligations to you. You are -a brave lad. Your courage and presence of mind saved the life of our -dearest treasure, and it would be utterly impossible for us to thank -you sufficiently.” - -“I hope you’ll not let that trouble you, sir. I’m glad to have been of -service to you.” - -“Young man, it would trouble us a great deal more than you have any -idea of if we did not make some little return that will show our -appreciation of your gallant deed.” - -“But I don’t want to be paid for doing my duty, sir,” objected Jack, -with a flush. - -“I am not speaking about payment, my lad, in the sense you perhaps -imagine. Such a service as you have rendered us is quite beyond -monetary reward,” said the old gentleman, feelingly. “But it is not -impossible that we can do something in another way. I like your face. -It is a bright one, stamped with energy and determination. You will -make your way in the world, I have not the least doubt. It will do you -no harm to ‘have a friend at court,’ as the saying is. You must let us -know you better.” - -“I’ve no objection to that,” said the boy, with a frank smile. - -“That’s right,” said Mr. Atherton, cheerfully. “Now, in the first -place, you have almost ruined your clothes. It is only fair that you -allow me to buy you a new suit at once.” - -To this offer Jack made no objection. - -So he permitted the old gentleman to take him to a large furnishing -goods store, where he was fitted out with new underclothes, shirt, tie, -etc., and from thence to a clothing establishment, where one of the -best suits was placed at his disposal, his own clothes being wrapped up -and ordered to be sent to his home. - -“Now you must come with me to the hotel and let me introduce you to my -daughter and the little girl who owes you such a debt of gratitude, -which when she grows older she will realize.” - -Jack put up some little objection, but was overruled. - -“I presume you are out on some business for the house with which you -are employed, but if you will give me the name and address I will make -it all right for you.” - -Then Jack blushingly admitted that he was out of work and had come to -Brooklyn in search of a position which he had seen advertised. - -“Indeed,” remarked the old gentleman. “It will give me great pleasure -to put you in the way of what you are in search, and at the same time -give me an opportunity of knowing you better. How would you like to -work in Wall Street?” - -“I should like it very much indeed,” said Jack, eagerly. - -“My son will need a messenger boy in a day or so, as the lad he has is -about to leave. You shall have the place. I will telephone to him from -the hotel and secure the position for you at once.” - -“I thank you very much, sir,” said the boy gratefully. “My mother and -sister depend largely on me, and I am sorry to say that I really need a -job very badly.” - -“I am glad to know that I can be of use to you in so important a -particular,” said the old gentleman, in a tone of satisfaction. “Here -we are; let us go in.” - -The first thing Mr. Atherton did was to get in communication with his -son, a Wall Street banker and broker, and he had no difficulty in -making good his promise to Jack. - -Then they went upstairs in the hotel to the room that had been -temporarily engaged by Mrs. Bruce (which was the name of Mr. Atherton’s -daughter). - -“Laura, dear, this is Jack Hazard, the boy who saved our little Fanny’s -life. You may remember he was standing near us at the time Fanny fell -into the river.” - -We will not repeat what Mrs. Bruce said to Jack. - -She felt as all fond mothers do feel under the circumstances, and -expressed herself accordingly. - -She was deeply grateful for what the boy had done, and she brought him -over to the bed where little Fanny lay covered up, waiting for her -garments to dry, and made the child kiss him and say, “T’ank oo, Jack.” - -While it is very nice to be praised, and all that, for doing a plucky -action, still our hero rather objected, on the whole, to be made a hero -of. - -He was glad when the interview was over and he was permitted to take -his leave with a letter from Mr. Atherton in his pocket addressed to -“William Atherton,--Wall Street,” accompanied with instructions to -present same immediately. - -It was a vastly different boy that walked across the Brooklyn bridge -about eleven o’clock from the one who a couple of hours before had -crossed the river on the Fulton Ferry. - -His thrilling adventure, with its attendant results, had left an -indelible mark upon him. - -He seemed to have grown older and more manly all at once. - -Not only that, but was now assured of a position--and a good one, at -that--in a section of the city and a business he had more than once -regarded with envy. - -“Won’t mother and sis be glad when I go home and tell them,” he -mused as he stepped out with unusual vigor and glanced around on the -promenade with eyes that fairly brimmed over with happiness. “Yes; I -feel I’ve got the chance of my life, and if I don’t improve it, my name -isn’t Jack Hazard.” - -He found ---- Wall Street without any trouble, and he saw that the -offices of William Atherton were on the second floor. - -“Is Mr. Atherton in?” he inquired of a clerk. - -“Yes; but he is engaged at present. What is your business with him?” - -“Please give him this letter.” - -“Any answer?” asked the clerk as he took it. - -“I guess so,” replied Jack. - -“Take a seat,” said the clerk, brusquely, and walked away. - -In a moment or two Jack was requested to walk into the private -office, and there found himself face to face with a well-built, -florid-complexioned man of perhaps forty, who pointed to a chair -alongside his desk and then regarded the boy keenly for a moment or two -before he spoke. - -“I see you have rendered our family a special service, young man,” said -William Atherton, in a genial way. “I should be glad if you would give -me the particulars, as I am naturally very much interested.” - -Jack with all due modesty related in as few words as possible how he -had saved the life of little Fanny Bruce. - -“You certainly deserve every word my father has said about you in his -letter. To his gratitude I will now add mine--that ought to cover both -our sentiments fully. And now I understand you wish to enter this -office as a messenger.” - -“I hope you will give me trial,” said Jack, earnestly. - -“Undoubtedly. You are recommended by my father, and what little I know -about you pleases me. You look to be apt and bright. Are you well -acquainted with the lower part of the city?” - -“Yes, sir.” - -“With whom were you last employed?” - -Jack told him, and said he could refer to the members of the late firm. - -“It is scarcely necessary under the circumstances. Just write your full -name and address on that pad. Thank you. That will be all. Your wages -will be seven dollars to commence with, and I shall advance you as -circumstances permit. You can start in to-morrow morning. The hours are -nine to five. Report to Mr. Bishop.” - -When Jack left the office he was the happiest boy in New York. - - - - -CHAPTER IV. - -HOW JACK PROPOSES TO RAISE THE RENT MONEY. - - -Jack was quite unprepared for the shock that awaited him when he -reached home early that afternoon in high spirits. - -“Mother,” he cried, dashing impetuously into the room where Mrs. Hazard -was assisting her daughter with her work, “what do you think? I’ve got -a dandy place in Wall Street, and I’m to get seven dollars to commence -with. Why, what’s the matter?” He stopped suddenly and regarded them -with some surprise. “You’ve both been crying. What’s up?” - -“We’ve met with a terrible misfortune, John,” replied his mother. - -“Why, what has happened?” and the boy sat down with a shade of -apprehension in his face. - -“The money we had for the rent----” began Mrs. Hazard, slowly. - -“Well?” - -“It’s gone.” - -“Gone!” gasped Jack. - -“We think it was taken by somebody,” put in Annie, sorrowfully. - -“You don’t mean that!” - -A few words of explanation made him as wise on the subject as they were -themselves, and the boy looked down ruefully at the carpet. - -“So you think Maggie McFadden may have taken it?” he said, presently. - -“There was nobody else in here to-day,” said Annie. - -“As you didn’t actually see her take it, of course we can’t accuse her. -She must have found out that you kept money in that drawer and made -up her mind to steal it at the first chance. She must have been pretty -slick to get away with it right under your nose. Well, it’s pretty -tough. I never thought much of the McFaddens. Maggie isn’t my style -of a girl, and Denny, her brother, hangs ’round with a crowd that I -wouldn’t think of associating with. He blows in most of his wages on -horse-racing. Well, mother, how are we going to pay the rent?” - -“That’s what worries me. The agent was here and was much put out -because I could not pay him. He has allowed me three days to get the -money together again. If the rent is not paid by Friday he told me we’d -have to move.” - -“Gee! This is simply fierce! And to think that everything looked so -bright to me a while ago!” - -“If I only knew where I could borrow fifteen dollars, we could pay it -back in a little while, now that you have secured a position,” said -Mrs. Hazard. - -“You got the situation through one of the ‘World’ ads, didn’t you, -John?” asked his sister. - -“No, sis; and you could never guess how I did get it. They don’t often -advertise those kind of jobs.” - -“Dear me,” said Annie, curiously, “do tell us how you got it, then.” - -“Why, John,” interrupted his mother, in a tone of great surprise, -“where on earth did you get those clothes? I didn’t notice them till -this moment,” and she came over and examined his new suit closely. -“Why, it looks like an expensive suit!” - -“I guess it is, mother,” laughed Jack. “It was one of the best in the -store.” - -“Oh, Jack,” cried his sister, eagerly, “do tell us how you came to get -it. Where are the clothes you had on this morning when you left home?” - -“I expect they will be delivered here some time to-day. The fact of the -matter is, I took a hasty bath in the East River.” - -“John,” gasped his mother, “what are you talking about?” - -Whereupon Jack related his exciting experiences of the morning and how -it had led to his getting the position of messenger in Mr. Atherton’s -office. - -“Why,” exclaimed his sister, excitedly, “you’ll have your name in the -papers, and everybody will be calling you a hero.” - -“I hope they won’t lose any sleep over the matter; I know I sha’n’t.” - -“Well, the little girl would have been drowned only for you.” - -“I guess she would,” admitted Jack. “I didn’t expect to get anything -for what I did; but all the same, I’m not kicking because I was -presented with a good job. We need the money, sis.” - -“When do you begin your duties?” - -“To-morrow morning at nine o’clock.” - -“And when do you get through?” - -“Five o’clock.” - -“Dear me, you have bankers’ hours, haven’t you?” - -“I’m satisfied.” - -“I should think you would be,” smiled his sister. “Now, if we hadn’t -lost the rent money, I think we would all be perfectly happy.” - -“I don’t see but that you’ll have to let me pawn a few of your -trinkets, mother. Whatever we’ll lack to make up the full amount I may -be able to borrow from Ed Potter. If he’s got it, he’ll let me have it -right off the reel.” - -“I’ve always had a horror for a pawnshop,” said Mrs. Hazard, with a -little shudder. “It brings the realization of one’s circumstances too -much to heart.” - -“I know, mother; but I don’t see how we can avoid patronizing the place -under our present emergency. We must have the rent.” - -“True,” answered his mother, with a sigh; “but I won’t agree to let you -go there until the last moment.” - -That night Jack got three dollars from his friend Ed, and at the same -time told him he had got a situation in Wall Street. - -Potter was delighted to hear that his chum had secured such a fine job. - -“It’s a great sight better than printing,” he remarked. - -“I hear the men in our office every day say the trade is going to the -dogs on account of the machines.” - -“How is that?” asked Jack. - -“Well, you see, an operator on a Mergenthaler can stack up forty -thousand ems per day and upward, according to the copy and his -expertness, while a hand compositor is lucky to average eight thousand. -So, you see, the piece hands, as they call ’em, aren’t wanted any more.” - -“And that has thrown a lot of printers out of work, has it?” - -“Rather.” - -“And how do they make a living, then?” - -“Some of them don’t. However, there’s a relief fund for Union men that -helps ’em out. Many of the old piece hands have turned to be jobbers, -and some of them have got to be proofreaders. I’m getting tired of the -business myself, so if you hear of something that you think I could -tackle, I’m ready to make a change.” - -“I’ll keep my eyes open, Ed. I’d like to have you down on Wall Street -with me.” - -“Hello, Jack Hazard!” exclaimed another boy, a mutual friend of both, -named Wally Gray, joining them on the corner. “How does your head feel?” - -“Why, how should it feel?” asked Jack, in surprise. - -“I thought it looked kind of swelled,” grinned Wally. - -“What are you giving me?” - -“I s’pose you know all about it,” Wally said to Ed. - -“About what?” - -“Why, Jack, of course.” - -“What are you talking about?” - -“Hasn’t he told you what he did this morning?” - -“Say, Jack,” asked Ed, in a puzzled way, “what is Wally barking about?” - -“And you haven’t read to-night’s ‘World’ or ‘Journal’,” continued -Wally, grinning. - -“No; I came out a little while ago to get the sporting edition, as I’m -a crank on baseball.” - -“Then run over to the stand and buy one, and I’ll show you something -that’ll surprise you. Hold on; you needn’t. Here’s a boy with a bunch -of ’em.” - -Ed bought a paper. - -Wally grabbed it and presently pointed out an article the nature of -which Jack knew fully, for he had bought an earlier edition of two -afternoon papers for his mother and sister. - -It was a pretty correct account of the rescue of little Fanny Bruce, -daughter of George Bruce, of Chicago, and granddaughter of Seymour -Atherton, a retired New York stock broker, who had fallen from a Fulton -ferryboat into the East River, by a lad of eighteen, named Jack Hazard, -who lived at No. 80 ---- Street. - -“Gee whiz!” exclaimed Ed, with bulging eyes. “Was that really you?” - -Jack grinned. - -“You never said a word to me about it, and we’ve been standing here -half an hour,” said Potter, in an injured tone. - -“I didn’t feel like blowing my horn on the subject, and I knew you’d -see the account in the paper after you’d gone over the baseball news.” - -“Well, I’m blowed if this isn’t a surprise,” said Ed. - -“It knocked me all lopsided,” chipped in Wally. - -“I s’pose you’ve been interviewed by the reporters like any other great -man?” said Ed, with a chuckle. - -“I’ve seen one or two.” - -“You ought to make a good thing out of this, Jack. The paper says that -the old gent is a money-bag,” said Ed, with a twinkle in his eye. -“Didn’t he hand you a liberal check?” - -“Doesn’t look like it, does it, when I’ve just borrowed three dollars -off you?” - -“That’s right; but I s’pose he’ll stump up in a day or so.” - -“What for?” demanded Jack, sharply. - -“Why, for yanking his granddaughter out of the wet, of course,” grinned -Ed. - -“Nonsense! He won’t do anything of the kind.” - -“Then he’ll be a mighty mean----” - -“Hold on there!” cried Jack. “He’s done all I would accept. He got me -my job, and I’m perfectly satisfied.” - -“That’s something, of course; but you’ll have to work for all the money -you’ll get out of that. He might have given you a nice present also.” - -“He presented me with a new suit of clothes.” - -“What’s that? Didn’t you get your own soaked?” - -“Well, I’m not kicking, so I guess we’ll talk about something else.” - -A few minutes later the three boys parted company. - - - - -CHAPTER V. - -HOW JACK ADDS ANOTHER FEATHER TO HIS CAP. - - -Next morning Jack appeared at Mr. William Atherton’s office a few -minutes before nine o’clock, ready for business. - -Mr. Bishop hadn’t arrived, so the boy took a seat in the outer office -and waited for him. - -He came about ten minutes later, and Jack reported to him as he had -been told to do. - -The manager looked him over attentively and seemed to be pleased with -his looks. - -“Well, Jack,” said Mr. Bishop, “Mr. Atherton has spoken to me about -you. You seem to be a smart boy, and that is what we want here. You -appear to have acquired something of a reputation for nerve and -cool-headedness for one so young. You have made good friends for -yourself by your courageous act of yesterday, which, I see, is reported -in the morning papers. It remains for you now to justify the excellent -opinion they have formed of you. Now, as to your immediate duties, you -will, for the rest of the week, assist our messenger, whose place you -have been employed to fill. He will leave on Saturday. I presume you -are tolerably acquainted with the financial district.” - -“Yes, sir,” replied Jack, respectfully. - -“Very good. Now come inside, and I will make you acquainted with the -boy you are to succeed.” - -Frank Simpson, the messenger, was perched on a high stool at a desk, -sorting over a pile of papers for the head clerk. - -He was a pleasant-featured boy of fifteen and appeared to be glad to -know his successor. - -“Where have you been working?” he asked Jack. - -“I was employed by Hogg & Newman, in Stone Street, but the firm went up -a couple of weeks ago.” - -“Never worked in Wall Street, then?” - -“No.” - -“Well, you’ve struck a dandy place when you caught on here. How did you -come to get the tip?” - -Evidently Simpson hadn’t read about Jack’s adventure in the papers. - -“Mr. Seymour Atherton sent me here.” - -“Oh, I see; you are acquainted with the old gent.” - -Jack nodded, but did not mention how that acquaintance came about. - -“Then I guess you’re solid, all right,” added Simpson. “There, I’m -through now. Come outside.” - -The two boys walked into the outer office and took possession of a -couple of chairs in a corner. - -“This is your post. When the boss or the manager wants you he taps a -bell and you answer it--see?” - -Jack understood, and an instant later Mr. Bishop’s bell sounded. - -“I’ll take the call,” said Simpson, skipping over to the manager’s -private office. - -He was back in a moment. - -“You’re to deliver this envelope at the address, on Exchange Place, and -wait for an answer. I’m off for the Seaman’s Bank.” - -The boys seized their hats, descended the stairs together with a hop, -skip and a jump, and parted at the door. - -Jack turned down Broad Street, crossed over, passed the Stock -Exchange, and hastened along until he came to Exchange Place, a narrow -thoroughfare, more like a lane than a street, which was somewhat -gloomy even on the brightest days because of the tall buildings that -fringed both sides. - -He easily found the number he wanted, took an elevator, and was carried -to the top floor. - -“Number Ninety-six, to your left,” said the elevator man as Jack -stepped out into the corridor. - -Numberless doors, the upper part of which were fitted with frosted -glass bearing the name of a firm, stared the boy in the face as he -hurried forward and turned down a shorter corridor to the left as he -had been directed to do. - -No. 96 was at the extreme end of the corridor facing him, so he had -nothing to do but walk straight ahead, turn the handle of the door and -enter. - -He delivered the envelope to a dudish-looking clerk and then flopped -down on a cane chair. - -At that moment there was a sudden commotion in the private office of -the firm. - -All the clerks looked up in a startled way as a man’s voice exclaimed, -in hoarse accents: - -“I tell you I’m utterly ruined! I can’t deliver that stock by noon, and -since you refuse to let up on me, Hartz, there’s nothing left for me to -do but this----” - -“You’re crazy, man--put down that revolver!” in lower but not less -excited tones. - -The words were followed by the noise of a struggle in the private -office. - -A heavy chair was overturned, and then the second voice cried, “Help!” - -Every one of the clerks dropped his pen and started for the little -door marked “Private,” but before one could reach it the door flew -open with a bang, and a big man, wild-eyed and disheveled, appeared, -struggling to shake off the hold of a smaller man with a sharp cast of -countenance, who had a firm grip on his right arm, in the hand of which -was grasped a cocked revolver. - -“I tell you I will do it!” cried the large man, in frenzied tones, -making a violent effort to free himself. - -He swung Hartz, who was the head of the firm that occupied the offices, -around as if he had been a feather, flooring three of the clerks, who -went down like so many cornstalks before the sweep of the old-time -scythe. - -And Hartz, losing his grip, went on top of them. - -The big man, then rushing clear of the group, raised the revolver to -his head. - -But Jack, who had jumped to his feet at the commencement of the rumpus, -divining his intention, cleared the rail at a bound and grabbed his arm -just as he pulled the trigger. - -The sharp explosion mingled with the splintering of glass as the bullet -grazed the would-be suicide’s temple and crashed through the window -pane fronting on Exchange Place. - -Partly stunned, the desperate man staggered forward two or three feet -and then sank down, while Jack succeeded in wrenching the pistol from -his relaxed fingers. - -By this time Mr. Hartz and his clerks had picked themselves up and were -looking with blanched faces at the fallen visitor, down whose pale -countenance trickled a thin stream of blood, from which they seemed to -infer that the big man had succeeded in destroying himself. - -The shot had aroused all the offices along the corridor, and brokers, -clerks, visitors, and others came rushing out. - -Nobody knew exactly whence the report had come, but somebody opened -Hartz’s door and looked in, and he saw enough to satisfy him of the -true state of affairs. - -Others crowded in after him, and soon the intelligence flew through the -building that a man had committed suicide in Broker Hartz’s office. - -“Gentlemen! Gentlemen!” cried Hartz, waving his arms. “Please don’t -crowd in here. Schultz,” to a clerk, “telephone to the precinct station -for an officer and a doctor. Gentlemen, I beg of you to stand back.” - -Jack, kneeling beside the big man, wiped the blood away from the scalp -wound. - -“He’ll be all right in a minute or two,” said the boy to the excited -broker, who seemed to have lost his head over the affair. - -“He didn’t kill himself, eh?” said Hartz, in shaky tones. - -“No; I grabbed the revolver in the nick of time.” - -“Where did the bullet go?” - -“It smashed one of your window panes.” - -“What have you done with the revolver?” - -“I’ve got it in my pocket.” - -“You’d better let me have it before he revives.” - -“He’s coming to now,” said Jack, handing the weapon to the broker, who -rushed into his private office and hid it. - -The big man, whose name Jack had found out was Oliver Bird, recovered -his senses and looked blankly around as if he didn’t comprehend what -had happened to him or where he was. - -“How do you feel now, sir?” asked Jack, assisting him to rise. - -“Feel? Why, what’s the matter with me? I didn’t have a fit, did I?” - -The boy didn’t feel like making an explanation, for he knew the man -would realize the situation in a moment. - -“Let me assist you into the private office, sir,” he suggested, -thinking it well that Mr. Bird should be removed from the curious gaze -and remarks of the outsiders who blocked up the space outside the -railing. - -Oliver Bird made no objection to this, but as soon as his eyes fell on -the face of Mr. Hartz everything came back to him like a flash. - -He glared at the broker, and for a moment it looked to Jack as if there -was going to be trouble. - -Hartz, however, staved it off by saying, quickly: - -“Sit down, Mr. Bird, and we’ll talk the matter over again. I’ve decided -to let you have twenty-four hours in which to settle up.” - -As Bird sank into the chair, apparently pacified, Jack retired and shut -the door. - -“You’ve got something going back to Atherton’s, haven’t you?” he said -to the dude clerk. - -“Upon my word, I don’t know what I did with that envelope you brought. -This excitement knocked it out of my mind.” - -“I think it’s sticking out of your pocket,” said Jack, with a grin. - -“Bless me! So it is. Just wait a moment.” And he rushed over to the -head bookkeeper, who, with the cashier, was trying to induce the mob to -leave. - -Jack had to wait several minutes before another envelope was handed to -him to take back. - -While he was waiting for it several of the clerks gathered about him, -complimented him on his nerve and presence of mind, and asked him his -name. - -On his way to the elevator he passed an officer and a man in plain -clothes, aiming for Hartz’s office. - -“Gee!” he said to himself, “I guess it’s a mighty lucky thing for Bird -I was on hand. He evidently meant to put that bullet into his brains.” - - - - -CHAPTER VI. - -WHAT JACK PICKED UP ON WALL STREET. - - -“Hello! What kept you so long?” exclaimed Frank Simpson when Jack -entered the outer office on his return from his Exchange Place errand. - -“There was a little excitement over at Hartz’s office that tangled -everybody up. I’ll tell you about it in a moment.” And Jack steered -himself into the manager’s office, delivered the envelope, and -explained the cause of the delay. - -“What! Oliver Bird tried to blow his brains out in Hartz’s office, eh? -I heard he was one of the shorts that were badly squeezed yesterday in -D. P. & Q. stock,” said Mr. Bishop. “How did the affair end?” - -Jack explained as modestly as possible the hand he had had in the -matter. - -“Upon my word, you saved the man’s life, then. Why, Bird is a big, -strong man, and he must have been half crazy at the time. How did you -manage to do it?” - -“I made a jump and grabbed his hand just as he pulled the trigger. -That’s all I know about it.” - -“Your presence of mind prevented a sad tragedy. Bird is a good fellow, -and it is evident Hartz turned the screws on him down to the last -notch. Nothing short of absolute ruin would cause Oliver to lose his -head. The fact that he had a revolver shows that he went to Hartz in a -desperate frame of mind. It seems to me, young man,” added Mr. Bishop, -with a smile, “that you are determined to keep your name before the -public. If you are not interviewed by a reporter inside of thirty -minutes I shall be much surprised.” - -“Say, Jack, you’re a wonder!” exclaimed Frank Simpson, after the new -messenger had narrated to him the affair at Hartz’s office. “I’ve just -been reading the account in the ‘Herald’ of how you saved the boss’s -niece, Fanny, from drowning in the East River. All the clerks are -talking about you. Gee! I wish I had your nerve!” - -But the two boys hadn’t much time for talking. - -Business was beginning to rush on Wall Street. - -Simpson was presently sent on an errand down Broad Street, and shortly -afterward Jack was sent to the New Street entrance of the Stock -Exchange with an envelope for Mr. Atherton, who was busy on the floor. - -It was several minutes before he was able to reach Mr. Atherton, and -during that interval the boy gazed upon the tumultuous scene before him -with something like wonder, for it was new to him. - -The crowd of brokers was divided into a dozen or more groups, more or -less clearly defined, shrinking or increasing in size from time to -time as the excitement grew or waned around that particular bone of -contention. - -And the roar and hubbub flowed and ebbed in like manner in different -sections of the Exchange floor. - -“I’ll sell a thousand at eighty-six and an eighth!” shouted Mr. -Atherton. - -At this, half a dozen clamorous hands were raised and shaken at him -furiously. - -“Any part of a thousand at eighty-six,” continued the broker. - -At this, Jack saw Hartz break into the circle with his hand upraised -and a wild Comanche yell. - -Atherton said something, and both men made entries on their tablets. - -Shortly afterward Mr. Atherton withdrew from the bunch, and then Jack -saw his opportunity to deliver his message. - -He received several slips in return, with orders to hurry back to the -office. - -Simpson was out, and he had no chance this time to warm the seat of the -chair, for Mr. Bishop sent him out again immediately. - -And he was kept on the go with scarcely a chance to swallow a cup of -coffee and eat a sandwich, until after the Exchange closed, at three -o’clock. - -“Mr. Bird has been here inquiring for you, Jack,” said Mr. Bishop, as -the lad laid the firm’s bank-book on his desk after making the day’s -deposit. “He wants to see you at his office. You had better run over -now.” - -“All right, sir.” And the lad passed out into the street again. - -As he approached the entrance of a certain prominent trust company he -noticed a large envelope lying on the pavement. - -Three or four persons passed it by, and one of them actually trod on it. - -It looked as though it had been discarded by some one, and Jack, whose -first idea had been to pick it up, felt ashamed to touch it lest some -of the kids coming along should give him the laugh. - -He was about to pass it when a D. T. messenger, rushing out of the -trust company, gave it a kick, sending it flying against Jack’s feet, -and then the boy concluded to examine it, for the way it had flown -through the air showed it to be at least a bit weightier than an empty -envelope. - -And it was, for a fact. - -As Jack hurried on, he counted six one-thousand-dollar, one -five-hundred-dollar, and two one-hundred-dollar bank-notes. And that -was all. No memorandum, and no name or address either inside or outside. - -“Gee whiz!” he exclaimed. “Sixty seven hundred dollars, and no clue to -the owner! And to think I’d have passed it by like a score of other -people have done, if it hadn’t been for that little messenger kid -kicking it almost into my hands. Who does it belong to? Some fellows -might say--and Denny McFadden is one of that kind--that findings is -keepings, but I’m not built that way. I’ll hand it over to Mr. Bishop, -and perhaps he will hear of the party that lost it. At any rate, it -doesn’t belong to me, and I have no right to keep it.” - -Jack, who had been brought up to regard honesty as the best policy, -stowed the envelope away in an inside pocket of his jacket, and then -mounted the stairs leading to Oliver Bird’s office. - -The boy was admitted to Mr. Bird’s inner sanctum, and the big broker no -sooner recognized him than he jumped up from his desk, and, seizing him -by both hands, shook them warmly. - -“By George! I don’t know how to thank you for saving my life this -morning,” he said, in a voice that quivered with emotion. “I certainly -was not in my right senses at the time, and but for your quickness and -nerve I would have been a corpse a moment later. Think what a shock -you have saved my family! Young man, I shall be grateful to you all my -life.” - -And while he spoke he held on to the boy’s hands. - -“All I can say, Mr. Bird, is that I am glad I happened to be on hand,” -said Jack, frankly. “I hope you won’t worry about what you owe me. I’d -have done the same thing for anyone else under the same circumstances.” - -“But I shall worry about it, young man, until I have done something for -you to show my gratitude.” - -“I don’t want you to do anything for me, sir. I’m perfectly satisfied -with knowing that I saved you from doing a rash act.” - -“But that won’t satisfy me.” - -Jack was silent. - -“Mr. Bishop told me that you are the boy who saved Mr. Atherton’s -little niece from drowning yesterday morning. Most of the brokers have -read about it in the papers this morning, and I have heard a score of -them talking about you. And now this crazy act of mine is printed in -all the afternoon editions, and I’ll bet if there is one there are a -hundred men about the Street who are trying to get a chance to see what -sort of a boy you look like. Nobody seems to know you as yet. How long -have you been working for Atherton?” - -“This is my first day,” replied Jack. - -“Well, I thought you were new down here, else I had probably seen you -before. I asked Hartz and his chief clerk about you, but they could -tell me nothing more than that you came there from Atherton’s, and that -was the only way I located you. Now I want you to call at my house -to-night; will you? My wife will certainly insist on seeing you.” - -“All right,” said Jack, who felt that it wouldn’t be polite to refuse -the broker’s request. - -“I’ll try and call about eight o’clock,” said the boy, cheerfully. - -“I shall expect you,” said Mr. Bird, shaking him again warmly by the -hand as Jack bade him good-bye and left. - -On his return to the office Jack asked Mr. Bishop if he could see him -for a moment. - -“Certainly,” replied the manager. - -“I wish to put this in your hands till it is claimed by the rightful -owner,” said the boy, handing Mr. Bishop the envelope with its precious -contents. - -“Why, where did you pick it up?” asked the astonished manager after he -had counted the bills. - -“On Wall Street, this side of the Blank Trust Company.” - -Mr. Bishop looked at him earnestly. - -“I don’t want any greater evidence than this that you are a thoroughly -honest lad,” he said, emphatically. “Mr. Atherton will be greatly -pleased to hear of this. It would certainly be a great temptation for -many boys, and for that matter, many men, to hold on to this money and -say nothing about it--the more especially as there is nothing either -on or inside the envelope to identify the owner. I will be glad to -attend to the matter. As the amount is a large one, it will probably be -advertised for at once. Whatever reward is offered, it will of course -be quite right for you to accept.” - -Mr. Bishop deposited the envelope, just as it was, in the office safe, -and soon afterward the office closed for the day, and Jack started to -walk uptown, stopping on Vandewater Street for his chum, Ed Potter, who -got away at 5:30. - - - - -CHAPTER VII. - -IN WHICH JACK RESTORES THE OBLONG YELLOW ENVELOPE AND ITS CONTENTS TO -ITS OWNER. - - -Of course Jack had a budget of interesting news to tell his mother and -sister at the supper table that night. - -“Oh, Jack! How could you do it?” exclaimed Annie when he described how -he grabbed the loaded revolver just as Oliver Bird fired it. - -“Well, sis, I never stopped to consider why I did it--the whole thing -was over in a moment.” - -“And you actually saved the man’s life?” - -“Mr. Bird is sure of it, and that’s the way the evening papers put it, -so----” - -“What! Is it printed in the paper? Let me see,” cried his sister, -excitedly. - -Jack pointed out the article to her, and she began to read it with a -great deal of interest. - -“But that isn’t all that happened to me,” grinned the lad, with his -mouth full of Irish stew. - -“I should think that was enough for one day, John,” said his mother, -smiling. - -“I found an envelope with a wad of money in it.” - -“Jack Hazard, you don’t mean it!” cried Annie, dropping the paper at -this startling bit of intelligence. - -“I don’t usually say what I don’t mean, sis.” - -“You really and truly did find some money? How much?” - -“You promise you won’t faint?” - -“What nonsense!” - -“Mr. Bishop and myself both counted it. It amounted to sixty seven -hundred dollars.” - -Mother and daughter both held up their hands in amazement. - -“Why, that’s a fortune!” - -“It would be to us; but probably the man who lost it considers such an -amount a mere bagatelle.” - -“Did you find the owner?” - -“No; there was nothing in the envelope to identify the person to whom -the money belonged. Mr. Bishop says we may expect to see it advertised -for, probably to-morrow morning.” - -“Surely you will get something for returning the money,” said his -sister. - -“I shall be satisfied if I get fifteen dollars, so mother can pay the -agent Friday.” - -“You ought to get a great deal more than that. A good many people would -keep that money, had they found it in the way you did. You ought to get -at least one hundred dollars.” - -“Well, if I’m offered a hundred I sha’n’t refuse it, sis. You and -mother need a new dress each, and I should like to get them for you.” - -“It’s very like you, Jack, to think of us first; but we’ll talk about -all that when we see what you do realize out of your find.” - -“All right,” said Jack, helping himself to another hot biscuit. - -“The whole neighborhood is talking about you, Jack,” said his sister. -“More than a dozen people whom we never saw before were in here to-day -talking to mother and saying ever so many flattering things about you. -Now, when they read to-night’s paper I’m afraid we shall have another -crowd to-morrow. Why, you’ll be considered a regular hero.” - -“I’d like it better if they wouldn’t interest themselves so much with -our affairs, sis,” said Jack, in a tone of annoyance. “They wouldn’t -make themselves so prominent if we were dispossessed because we -couldn’t pay our rent.” - -“I’m afraid we’ll have to submit with the best grace we can. It is one -of the penalties of newspaper notoriety.” - -After supper Jack started to walk uptown to No. ---- East Sixty-second -Street, as he didn’t feel that he could afford carfare. - -He reached Mr. Bird’s residence, a four-story brownstone front, a -little after eight o’clock. - -He was very kindly received by the broker and his family, who regarded -him as the savior of the household. - -He spent a very pleasant hour, and when he insisted that it was -time for him to go Mrs. Bird stepped up and presented him with a -very handsome little gold watch and chain as a small token of their -gratitude and esteem. - -Jack was very much surprised, not expecting anything of the kind, and -for the first time in his life he was at a loss how to suitably express -himself. - -The very first thing Jack did next morning when he reached the office -was to look over the “Lost and Found” column in the “Herald,” but he -failed to find anything having reference to the money he had found. - -“Hello!” exclaimed Frank Simpson, who sat beside him, reading the -‘World.’ “Say, this is pretty tough!” - -“What’s tough?” asked Jack, without looking up. - -“Why, here’s a story about a woman who lost a big wad of money -yesterday.” - -“What’s that?” asked Jack, with sudden interest. - -“She and her husband had been saving up and pinching themselves for -the last twenty years to save enough money to buy a house where they -could spend their old age in security and comfort. They did buy a -house, but the city took it on a valuation because it stood in the way -of the new bridge, and they received sixty seven hundred dollars. They -left this money with the Blank Trust Company, on Wall Street. After -looking around some time, they bought another house, and yesterday the -woman drew the money from the trust company to pay for it and for the -new furniture and other things they wanted; but when she got home she -found that she had lost the envelope containing the money somewhere -on the street, but just where she has no idea. She’s about crazy over -her loss. Gee whiz! If that isn’t hard luck, I don’t know what is,” -concluded young Simpson, emphatically. - -“Where does she live?” asked Jack, in a tone of great excitement. - -“It’s down here somewhere,” answered Frank, looking over the article. -“Here it is, No. ---- Prescott Street, Bronx.” - -“Let me have the paper,” cried Jack, grabbing it eagerly. - -He glanced over the article with feverish interest; then he rushed into -Mr. Bishop’s office and pointed it out to that gentleman. - -“I guess there’s no doubt but this woman is the person who lost the -very money that you picked up yesterday. The amount, as well as other -particulars, corresponds. Go around to the Blank Trust Company and have -them describe the woman and the notes they paid her. The cashier will -probably have a memorandum of the banks that issued the large notes, -at any rate. If the list corresponds with those in the envelope in -the safe, you had better take the package up to the address given in -the ‘World,’ and if the woman can describe the money with reasonable -accuracy and her description coincides with that furnished by the trust -company, you will be pretty safe in restoring to her the sum she lost. -I am very glad, for the poor woman’s sake, that you were the one who -found her money.” - -Jack followed the manager’s suggestions, and the result was that they -were both satisfied they had located the rightful owner of the $6,700. - -“Start right up there now, Jack, and get back as soon as you can,” -said Mr. Bishop. “The cashier will hand you the carfare.” - -It was something over an hour before Jack reached the address printed -by the ‘World’--a small, two-story, frame building, one of a row of -six, on a side street off Westchester Avenue. - -He rang the bell and a boy answered, holding the door partly ajar. - -“I should like to see Mrs. Breeze,” said Jack, in a business-like way. - -“Are you a reporter?” asked the boy, doubtfully. - -“Well, hardly,” grinned the young messenger. “I’m from Wall Street.” - -“Who are you talking to, Bobbie?” asked a woman’s voice rather -petulantly. - -“There’s a boy here from Wall Street who says he wants to see you,” -answered the young hopeful. - -“What does he want?” - -“What do you want?” repeated the lad. - -“I want to see Mrs. Breeze in reference to the money she lost.” - -“Let him come in,” and Jack was admitted. - -A sad-faced woman of fifty, with her eyes swollen from weeping, made -her appearance from a back room. - -“Has any trace been found of my money?” asked the woman, with -suppressed eagerness. - -“If you will describe the notes as well as you can remember them, I -will be able to answer you,” said Jack, who saw that Mrs. Breeze’s -personal description exactly corresponded with that furnished by the -trust company. - -“The six one-thousand-dollar bills were new, but I didn’t notice the -name of the bank either on them or on the other notes, one of which was -a five-hundred-dollar and the other two one-hundred. I had them in a -large, oblong envelope. That is all I can say about them.” - -“I think you have described them correctly,” said Jack, producing the -envelope he had picked up. “Is this your property?” - -The woman pounced on the envelope like a hawk, opened the flap, took -out the money and counted it with eager eyes; then, satisfied that it -was all there, restored to her in the most wonderful manner after she -had given it up for lost, she sank back in her chair and began to cry -convulsively. - -After a moment or two she recovered her composure and inquired of Jack -how the money had been found. - -He told her how he had picked it up close to the entrance of the trust -company. - -She had drawn the money at two o’clock, and Jack had found it close on -to four. - -It seemed incredible that an envelope containing such a large sum of -money could have laid on the sidewalk of a prominent thoroughfare like -Wall Street, glanced at and walked over by many people, and yet no one -had had the curiosity to pick it up. - -“What is your name?” asked Mrs. Breeze. - -“Jack Hazard, madam.” - -“You are an honest boy. I am sure you have a good mother and that -she is very proud of you. This money you have returned to me is the -savings of our entire life. I don’t like to think what the result might -have been if it had been lost for good and all. As testimony of our -gratitude I want you to accept these two bills,” and she offered Jack -the two hundred-dollar notes. - -“No, ma’am,” said the boy. “I couldn’t think of taking so much money -from you.” - -“But you must, or you will take away half the pleasure I feel at the -recovery of my money. Really, it is a great deal less than you really -deserve. I insist that you accept them,” said Mrs. Breeze firmly, -forcing the bills into his hand. - -Jack saw she was intensely earnest in her demand, and with some -reluctance he put them in his pocket. - -“I am very happy indeed that you have got your money back,” he said as -he rose to go. - -“I feel like another woman to what I did before you came here. Be sure -I shall not soon forget the honest lad to whom I am indebted for its -recovery,” were her last words as Jack ran down the steps after bidding -her good-bye. - - - - -CHAPTER VIII. - -A DERELICT OF WALL STREET. - - -On his way back to the office Jack stopped at the Seaman’s Bank, on -the corner of Wall and Pearl Streets, and opened a personal account -for $150. The balance of the $200 he had received from Mrs. Breeze -he handed over to his mother when he got home that night. You may be -sure there was great joy in that little household over this unexpected -windfall, and now the future looked very bright for them indeed. - -On Saturday afternoon Frank Simpson severed his connection with Mr. -Atherton’s office, and the two boys parted in an especially cordial way. - -Nothing of any moment occurred during the next three or four months to -interrupt the regular routine of Jack’s duties. - -He and his chum, Ed Potter, both had the Saturday half-holiday during -the summer, and they put it in mostly playing ball up at the Olympic -Field. - -One day Jack learned that Hartz’s messenger was about to leave him, -so he called on the broker and asked him if he would give his friend -Potter a trial. - -Hartz, who had a good opinion of Hazard, readily agreed to oblige him, -so next day Ed came down to Wall Street and Jack introduced him to -Hartz. - -In a day or so, Potter was taken into Hartz’s office on trial, and, -proving satisfactory, was told that he would be advanced, if he -deserved it, when the opportunity presented itself. - -Everybody who ran across Jack Hazard liked him. - -This was especially true in respect to those in the office with whom -the boy came into daily contact. - -From Mr. Atherton himself down to the least important clerk it was all -the same. - -It is possible, if there was any choice in that matter, Jack liked -Millie Price, the stenographer and typewriter better than anyone else. - -Most everyone said she was a pretty girl, and what everybody generally -says goes. - -She was certainly attractive in her manners, vivacious in her talk, and -generally polite and agreeable in her deportment. - -She was a smart worker, was well up in her business, and had the -confidence of the firm. - -“She has a level head and doesn’t put on any airs,” said Jack to his -friend Ed one day when he was speaking about her. - -“I s’pose she gets good pay,” remarked Potter. - -“I believe she gets twelve dollars. She lives in Brooklyn with her -mother, who is a widow, and I guess all the money they have is what she -makes.” - -“She isn’t the only girl that supports her home.” - -“That’s right,” nodded Jack, and then they began to talk of something -else. - -Next day Jack happened to be over at Hartz’s office on business for -his firm when a seedy-looking old man, with a dissipated and dejected -aspect, shuffled into the place. - -“I want to see Mr. Hartz,” he said in a trembling voice. - -“Mr. Hartz is engaged,” replied the clerk, turning away. - -Just then Hartz came out of his private room, and the visitor motioned -to him in an eager sort of way. - -“Well,” said the broker, coldly, as he stepped up to the railing, “your -account is closed, Mr. Tuggs. We sent you a notice and, as you didn’t -respond, had to close you out at twenty-two, with a balance against -you. Jenkins,” addressing his head bookkeeper, “prepare a statement of -Mr. Tuggs’ account and hand it to me with notice of sale. Sit down, -Mr. Tuggs. Statement ready presently,” and Mr. Hartz re-entered his -sanctum, while the customer, with a gesture of despair, tottered over -to the indicator and examined it with hungry eyes. - -Jack had overheard it all, and he watched this old derelict of Wall -Street with sympathetic eyes. - -“Who is he?” he inquired of the clerk who had brought him the envelope -he was to take back to Atherton’s. - -“Whom do you mean? Oh, Tuggs?” and the dapper clerk laughed sneeringly. -“He’s got to be a regular nuisance round here, and we’re trying to get -rid of him. He was rich once--a retired manufacturer, I think, who -caught the Wall Street fever. Hartz has always been his broker, and I -guess has sheared him down to his last dollar. At any rate, he used -to shovel the dough in at a comfortable rate, but somehow or another -he was nearly always on the wrong side of the market, and of late his -investments haven’t amounted to shucks. Besides, he’s taken to drinking -and has grown so disreputable in his looks that the boss doesn’t care -to have him around any more. This last deal of his was two hundred -shares of Lebanon and Jericho, which he bought on a ten-per-cent -margin, as usual, for a rise, and I guess it took his last dollar. It’s -fair stock, but fluctuates a good deal. After he bought it, it went to -thirty-six, when he should have sold out. But he didn’t; expected it -would go higher, of course, like all the lambs. Then it began to drop, -and ever since it’s been below thirty-two he’s been on the anxious -seat,” with a grin. “He’d drop in a dozen times a day and ask questions -about it. He gave us all a pain; so I guess Hartz thought it was time -to choke him off.” - -“He couldn’t close him out unless the stock went down ten per cent,” -said Jack. - -“Of course not,” replied the clerk; “but it got pretty close to the -danger mark day before yesterday, and we sent him a demand for more -margin.” - -“And he couldn’t produce?” - -“He didn’t. Just before the Exchange closed Lebanon and Jericho touched -twenty-two.” - -“And Mr. Hartz sold him out?” - -“Not at all. Hartz had something else to do than thinking about that -measley little transaction.” - -“But I heard him tell the man he had closed him out at twenty-two,” -persisted Jack. - -“Well,” said the clerk, with a wink, “there are more ways than one of -killing a cat. The boss saw a chance of getting rid of an undesirable -customer when he noted that the stock had touched twenty-two, -though the last quotation, a few minutes later, was twenty-four and -three-eighths. He simply made an arrangement this morning with another -broker and told Jenkins to make an entry of the transaction as having -occurred yesterday and to report him closed out at twenty-two--see? -That’s done every day,” nodding good-bye to Jack. - -The boy understood, and his lip curled at the meanness of the -transaction, for the steal was small. - -Not only that, but Jack knew that most reputable brokers, in a case -where a man had been a good customer of the house, would sooner have -strained a point in his favor than have worked the squeeze game against -him. - -But Hartz wasn’t accustomed to do business in that way. - -“I’m dead sorry for the poor old fellow,” murmured Jack, turning to -leave, just as Jenkins came over and thrust the statement into Tuggs’ -trembling fingers. - -The old fellow looked at it blankly. - -“I believe it’s all a lie,” he said, hoarsely. “I don’t believe Hartz -has sold my stock at all. It touched twenty-two, and he reports it -sold at the lowest price, though it rose immediately to twenty-four -and three-eighths. They credit it on my account at twenty-two, and it -is now thirty, and they steal a profit to themselves of over eight -hundred dollars, and cast me out a beggar. It closed at twenty-two -and three-eighths, and opened at twenty-two and five-eighths. It is -infamous! But what can I do? I am ruined. I am helpless. I am utterly -at the mercy of this man. He is rich with the money he has taken from -fools like me, and yet he will not help me.” - -Jack listened to his ravings in silent pity and held the door open for -him to totter out. - -Later in the day, just after the Exchange had closed, Jack ran across -Tuggs again on Wall Street, coming out of an office building with a -bundle in his hand. - -He looked more despairing than ever, if that could be possible. - -He stood for several minutes, looking up and down the thoroughfare as -if not knowing which way to go. - -Then he started across the street, staggering like a drunken man, just -as an express wagon came swinging along at a rapid rate. - -Jack sprang forward just in the nick of time to save him from being -trampled on by the horses. - -“Where in thunder are you going to?” the driver yelled at him in an -angry tone. - -Tuggs took no notice of the remark. - -Indeed he seemed hardly conscious that he had just escaped a grave -peril. - -He stood swaying to and fro in Jack’s grasp like some scarecrow that -had come from a cornfield. - -“Let me help you across,” said the boy. - -Tuggs looked at him with lack-lustre eyes and stepped out as Jack -pulled him along by the arm. - -“Where are you going?” asked Jack, after he had landed him on the -sidewalk. - -“I don’t know,” said Tuggs, wearily. - -“I guess you’d better go home, hadn’t you?” suggested the young -messenger. - -“Home?” muttered the old man, in an absent kind of way. - -“Where do you live?” asked Jack, curiously. - -The boy had to repeat the question before he learned that Tuggs was -stopping at the Mills House--that haven for derelicts of all ages and -conditions. - -“Gee!” thought the young messenger, “if he was a retired manufacturer -once, he’s sunk pretty low. I guess Wall Street has much to answer for.” - - - - -CHAPTER IX. - -JACK’S FIRST INVESTMENT. - - -The old man dropped his package on the sidewalk, and the string -becoming undone the contents were spilled out. - -Jack stooped down to pick them up and found they were certificates of -some kind of mining stock he had never heard of. - -Each one represented 500 shares of the Gopher Gold Mining Company, of -Bullfrog, Nevada. - -At the sight of them Tuggs seemed to brighten up a bit. - -“Do you want to buy them?” he asked, eagerly. - -“What are they worth?” asked Jack, smiling at the idea of a messenger -boy being able to acquire even 500 shares of any reputable mining stock. - -“Millions!” exclaimed the old man. - -“That settles it,” thought the boy. “He’s crazy, sure.” - -“Why don’t you sell them to somebody that’s got the money to pay for -them. You look as if you needed the cash,” said Jack, aloud. - -“Nobody will buy them,” replied Tuggs, sadly. - -“Why not?” - -“I don’t know.” - -“They can’t have a market value, then.” - -“The company says they’re worth ten cents a share. I paid three cents -for them more than a year ago.” - -“Perhaps the company’ll buy them in, then,” suggested Jack. - -“I don’t know. Their office is in Denver.” - -“Why don’t you write to the company?” - -“I want some money now--to-day. I haven’t a cent to pay my room rent or -get something to eat,” wailed the old man. - -“Well, here’s a half a dollar for you; that’ll see you through till -to-morrow.” - -“You’re very kind. I’m afraid I sha’n’t live long. I’d like to sell you -this stock cheap. There’s five thousand shares, and you can have it for -a hundred dollars, or even fifty, if you haven’t so much as that. Some -day it will be valuable. It’s selling for ten cents a share to-day; -that makes the shares worth five hundred dollars.” - -“I’m afraid I can’t buy them,” said Jack, shaking his head. - -“It’s a pity,” mumbled Tuggs. “You’re losing the chance of your life.” - -“Well, I’ll tell you what I’ll do for you. Come up to our office and -leave the certificates. I’ll give you a receipt for them. Then I’ll ask -our manager what he thinks they’re worth as a speculation. He knows a -good deal about Western mines. If they’re worth anything, perhaps the -firm will take them off your hands or I can get somebody to buy them.” - -Just then Jack spied Oliver Bird coming out of his office. - -“Wait a moment,” he said. “Maybe I can find out about them now. Here’s -a broker I’m acquainted with. I’ll let him see them.” - -So the messenger boy darted up to Mr. Bird, who was glad to see him and -shook him cordially by the hand. - -“I wish you’d tell me, Mr. Bird, if this stock is worth anything,” said -Jack. - -The broker took the certificates and glanced at them. - -“One of those wild-cat mines advertised in the daily press to catch -fools,” said the gentleman, handing them back. - -“Then you wouldn’t advise me to invest fifty dollars in these five -thousand shares?” - -“Hardly, Jack. Still, fifty dollars isn’t much to risk, and it is -always possible for one of these mines, which are floated on the -reputation of rich ore leads in their neighborhood, to turn up a -winner. If you can get these shares for fifty dollars and can afford to -invest that amount on a one-hundred-to-one shot, as I should call it, -why, it’s better than many investments I know of.” - -“Thank you, sir. They belong to that old man yonder, who has been -ruined on the market. He was rich once, but he caught the Street fever, -and Hartz, on Exchange Place, has been his doctor--I should say, -broker,” grinned the boy. - -Bird’s face clouded at the mention of Hartz’s name. - -“Hartz is one of the slickest men on the Street,” said Mr. Bird, “and -one of the hardest, too, as I know to my cost. There isn’t a particle -of mercy in his make-up. He’s ruined half a dozen brokers, to my -certain knowledge. If it hadn’t been that my rash attempt on my life -that morning frightened him into making a certain concession, I should -have been down and out. As it is, he didn’t lose anything, and I was -able to weather the storm.” - -“I have it from one of Hartz’s clerks that the old man left all his -money at their office. I should think he’d do something for an old -customer who had been so unfortunate.” - -“Hartz isn’t built that way,” replied Oliver Bird. - -“You don’t think Hartz took an unfair advantage of him right along, do -you?” asked Jack. - -“Now you’re treading on delicate ground, young man. But I think I can -answer your question this way: I dare say he had as much show to win -out at Hartz’s as at any other broker’s. No speculator who monkeys with -the stock market has an even show for his money. It isn’t the broker’s -fault; it’s the game he’s up against. The outside public make no money -out of the brokers; the brokers live on the outside public. You simply -bet that a certain stock will go up or down; generally it goes the way -you don’t expect, and there you are.” - -“Or you hold on too long,” suggested the boy, who thought he knew why -most of the uninitiated dropped their wealth. - -“Of course; but who can guess the right moment to unload, eh, Jack?” - -“Well, I feel sorry for the old man. It’s evident he’s seen better -days. I am thinking of taking this stock on the bare chance it may turn -out to be worth something one of these days.” - -“Well, that’s your lookout, Jack. I don’t advise you to buy it; but if -you want to take a flyer of that kind, the experience will probably be -worth the price to you. Good-bye. Come up and see us soon.” - -“Thank you, I will. Good afternoon, Mr. Bird.” - -Then Jack rejoined Tuggs, who during the interval waited for him like a -submissive animal at the command of his master. - -“Come with me; I’m going back to our office. I’ll put your stock in the -safe and give you a receipt for it. Come down about noon to-morrow, and -I’ll give you fifty dollars for it.” - -Tuggs was satisfied, got his receipt, and left the neighborhood. - -Next day Jack bought the stock in regular form. - -When he told Mr. Bishop what he had done, that gentleman rather frowned -upon the transaction. - -Finally he laughed, and told Jack to write to Denver, enclosing the -numbers of the certificates, and request the secretary of the company -to make the proper transfer on the books of the company. - -He did so at the first chance, and went home feeling like a bloated -capitalist on a limited scale. - - - - -CHAPTER X. - -HOW JACK ACQUIRED INSIDE INFORMATION. - - -One morning Jack was sent to deliver a package of important papers at -the office of a well-known millionaire capitalist. - -Entering the reception-room, he found Hartz and another prominent -broker standing by one of the windows, talking in a low tone together. - -They did not notice him right away, and though the boy made no effort -to listen to their conversation, of which he couldn’t hear much any -way, a bit of valuable information came to him quite unexpectedly that -set him thinking very hard as he marched inside to deliver his package -to the capitalist in the private office. - -He had heard Hartz and the other broker talking about a certain stock -which they were going to corner. - -They had called on the millionaire, expecting to interest him in the -scheme with others whose names were written down on a list referred to -by Hartz during his talk. - -Now, many boys wouldn’t have given the matter a second thought, or if -they had, wouldn’t have had the gumption to consider how they might -avail themselves of the knowledge that every broker in the district -would have given his head, so to speak, to have an inkling of. - -But Jack Hazard was smarter than a steel trap. - -Corners and such things were familiar terms to him. - -He hadn’t burnt his fingers in the market as yet. - -He was a deal too cautious for that. - -But all the same, the fever had been working in his blood, and there -was no telling when it would break out. - -He had his own idea about investing in stocks, and had figured the -thing out until his brain sometimes got weary over the work. - -Practically he was standing on the brink, like a timid bather on the -seashore, tempted by the sight of the water, but hesitating to make the -first plunge. - -And now, like a sudden inspiration, he believed he saw his way to a -good thing. - -And it was a good thing, if he only worked it right. - -And he thought he knew how to do it. - -“What are you thinking about?” asked Millie Price, noticing the -preoccupied air of the boy after he returned from the capitalist’s -office. - -“I was thinking how I could make a haul,” said Jack, with a grin of -anticipation. - -“Not in stocks, I hope,” said Millie, with some concern, for she had -little faith in Wall Street deals. - -“That’s for me to know and you to find out, Millie,” said Jack, -tantalizingly. - -“Aren’t you just horrid!” she retorted, with a smile that showed the -young messenger was a prime favorite of hers. - -“I hope not. That’s what you said about that dude that was in here -yesterday. I hope you aren’t comparing me with him.” - -“The idea! Just as if I would!” she said, tossing her head. “Oh, by -the way; who do you suppose was in here inquiring for you while you -were out?” - -“Couldn’t guess, Millie, unless it was the Mayor, who is a particular -friend of mine,” said Jack, with a grin. - -“What a ridiculous boy you are! It was Mr. Seymour Atherton.” - -“No; is that a fact?” said the boy, with evident interest. “I should -like to have seen him.” - -“And he had your little mash with him, too,” said Millie, with a -mischievous smile. - -“What’s that? What are you getting off?” - -“Don’t you really know who I mean?” - -“Of course I don’t. I haven’t any mash unless it’s yourself,” grinned -Jack. - -“Haven’t you got a cheek!” laughed the stenographer, blushing. “Well, -then, I’ll tell you who it was. It was Fanny Bruce, and she looked just -too cute for anything.” - -“I’d liked to have seen her, too,” said Jack. - -“She’s the loveliest little girl, I think, I ever saw,” said Millie, -enthusiastically. - -“Hello!” exclaimed Ed Potter, walking in. “What are you two chinning -about? Why don’t you get busy? What am I paying you for?” - -“Hello, Ed! What brought you around?” - -“My feet. Did you think it was an automobile?” - -“Isn’t he funny?” said Millie. - -“You must excuse him, Millie; he isn’t responsible at all times.” - -“I s’pose you think that’s amusing,” growled Ed. - -“Say, Ed, I want to see you a moment,” said Jack, walking over to a -window. - -“Well, look at me; I’m on exhibition for the time being,” snickered -Potter. - -“Oh, rats! Come over here. I want to talk to you. Got any money you -want to invest?” he asked as Ed approached. - -“Sure--seven cents.” - -“Stop your fooling. Got ten dollars? If you have, I’ll put you on to a -sure thing.” - -“What is it?” - -“Buy a couple of shares of L. S. on a ten-per-cent margin. Last -quotation thirty-six.” - -“Got a tip?” - -“That’s what I have. I’m going down to the Seaman’s to-morrow to draw -my pile. I’ve enough to collar twenty-five shares at that margin.” - -“Well, I’ll think about it.” - -Next morning L. S. opened at the same figure, and as soon as he got -the chance Jack hied himself to the savings bank, drew his money, and, -dropping in on Oliver Bird, surprised that gentleman by asking him to -buy 25 shares of L. S. for him. - -“You ought to know your business, Jack; but it seems to me you’re doing -a foolish thing,” said the broker, warningly. - -“That’s where you and I differ at present. Back me for twenty-five -shares more, and I’ll let you in on the ground floor.” - -“What do you mean by that?” asked Bird, curiously. - -“Will you stand for the twenty-five if I tell you?” - -“Certainly, if you’re determined to make the plunge; but remember, I -strongly advise you against it. I owe you a good turn, and I’ll back -you for fifty, so take your money away.” - -“That isn’t business, Mr. Bird. I won’t accept any favors in this deal. -I come to you same as I would to any broker. I’ll sell you a share in -my tip for a ten-per-cent margin on twenty-five shares of L. S. And if -you consider the tip worth it, I want you to deal with me same as you -would with anyone else.” - -“Well, what’s your tip, Jack?” asked the broker, smiling doubtfully. - -“Hartz and Bradshaw are getting up a corner to boost L. S.” - -“How do you know that?” asked Bird, sharply. - -Jack told him what he had overheard the two men say at the capitalist’s -office the day before. - -Mr. Bird considered a moment. - -“I don’t mind admitting that your information is valuable, and I’m -going to look into it. If I find from indications that are bound to -show themselves in a day or two that a pool has apparently been formed, -I’ll stake you for one hundred shares; the tip is worth that easily.” - -“All right! Much obliged,” said the boy, joyfully. “That’s business, -and my hundred dollars will give me twenty-five shares more. But you -must let me use my own judgment about selling out.” - -“You’d better let me attend to that, Jack.” - -“Thanks; but I’ve got my own idea. I’d like to feel independent in the -matter. I’ve been studying the market for some time, and if you can -shear me of the little wool I’ve got, you’re welcome to do so.” - -“I shouldn’t want to do that, Jack,” laughed the broker. - -“And I don’t propose to give you the chance to do it,” grinned the boy. - -“You’re a case, young man. Drop in and see me in a day or two.” - -“All right, sir.” And Jack took his leave, feeling that at last he was -getting to be of some importance in the Street. - - - - -CHAPTER XI. - -THE GREATEST SCARE OF HIS LIFE. - - -When the Exchange closed that afternoon L. S. was quoted at 36⅛. - -It opened at the same figure on the following morning, and when -business was over for the day Jack’s eager eyes noticed that it had -advanced only one-half a point. - -Next day it opened at 37, and during the morning the young speculator -managed to drop in on Oliver Bird. - -“Come inside,” said his friend, the broker. “I want to see you.” - -Jack hastened into the private den. - -“Here is a memorandum for one hundred and twenty-five shares of L. S. -which I bought for your account at thirty-six and a half, but I’ve made -it thirty-six, as that was the figure you ordered the stock at, and as -I didn’t buy it till yesterday I had to pay the fraction extra. I’ll -hold the stock subject to your order, of course. I’m satisfied that a -corner has been formed to bull the stock, and that it will go up to -some purpose in a day or two. I stand to win something handsome myself -on this deal, and when I’ve cashed in, I’m going to treat you to a -Sherry blow-out.” - -“Well, I hope you’ll make a good thing out of it, Mr. Bird, for you’ve -put me in the way of becoming a small capitalist myself.” - -“You don’t owe me any thanks; it’s all the other way. But recollect -you’ve assumed the responsibility of your own deal. I only hope you -won’t make a wrong move. After the stock will have reached a certain -figure--and what that will be no man can guess--the bottom is liable -to drop out at any moment. Should you be caught on the toboggan, your -profits will vanish like smoke.” - -“Yes, sir; I understand that. But I’m out for experience, and I’m -banking that it’ll be on the right side.” - -“Well, my lad, I admire your nerve; but while you have the advantage of -inside information at the start, your lack of experience on the market -may land you in the soup when you least expect it.” - -In spite of his natural assurance, Jack’s nerves were all of a tingle -during the next ten days as he followed the rising quotations of L. S. -from 36½ to 76, the closing figure when the Exchange shut down on -the tenth day. - -Several times he had actually been on the point of ordering the big -broker to sell him out, but he hesitated at the golden prospect of a -higher market. - -“With a syndicate probably backed by millions behind it, it will surely -go to par,” he reasoned with boyish enthusiasm. - -He was assailed by the same fatal temptation that has ruined thousands -on the very brink of a successful coup. - -Twice Jack had received a hint from Mr. Bird--the last a strong one. He -considered them and then decided to hold on a while longer. - -“Say, Jack, what’s the matter with you; you’re as nervous as an old -woman,” said Ed as they were on their way home on the afternoon of the -day the stock touched 76. - -“Am I?” returned the lad, with a queer sort of laugh. “I didn’t notice -it.” - -“Sure you are. What’s up? You aren’t thinking of running off with -Millie Price and getting married, are you?” jokingly. - -“Hardly, old man.” - -“Haven’t been robbing the office safe with a view of emigrating to -Canada?” - -“Not much chance for that,” with what was intended to be a cheerful -grin. - -“Then what’s troubling you?” - -“Is my hair turning gray?” - -“I haven’t noticed that it is,” said Potter, in some surprise. “Why?” - -“I didn’t know but that it was, you seemed so concerned about me.” - -“Stop your jollying. You’re different to what you were a week ago, and -that’s enough to show that you’ve got something on your mind. Ain’t I -your friend?” - -“Certainly.” - -“Then you oughtn’t to keep me in the dark.” - -“I won’t--after to-morrow.” - -“Why not now?” - -“Because I’ve particular reasons.” - -Ed was by no means satisfied with this answer, but he had to let it go -at that. - -Jack’s mother and sister had also noticed and remarked on the change -that had come over him, but to all their anxious inquiries he refused -to admit that there was anything the matter with him. - -That evening he spent studying the market quotations for the past week -and figuring upon the chances of L. S. going higher. - -Finally the big broker’s warning that at any moment he might expect to -be lost in the shuffle if he tempted fortune too far decided his course -of action for the next day. - -“I’ll order Mr. Bird to sell first thing in the morning,” he said to -himself. - -Once he had reached a decision, the matter was settled for good and all. - -Notwithstanding that fact, his dreams that night were enough to set his -hair on end. - -Nevertheless he was perfectly cool and collected next morning when he -reached the office and exchanged the usual greetings with Millie Price. - -“I’ve never seen you look so much like a little man of business as you -do to-day, Jack,” laughed Millie. - -“And I’ve never seen you look half so pretty as you do this morning,” -responded the lad, gallantly. - -Millie blushed to the eyes. - -“Really, you’re too complimentary for anything,” she said as she busied -herself with her machine. - -Jack laughed. - -“Will you do me a favor?” he asked. - -“I should be delighted,” she replied. “What is it?” - -“Put a fresh sheet of paper on your machine. I want you to write a note -for me.” - -“Certainly. There; now I’m ready for you to dictate.” - -“All right. Got the date down?” - -“Yes.” - -“Then here goes: ‘Mr. Oliver Bird,--Wall Street. Dear Sir--Please close -out my L. S. stock----’” - -“Your what?” almost gasped Millie, stopping the machine. - -“Please don’t interrupt me, Miss Price,” said Jack, with a sober -countenance, while the girl stared at him with all her eyes. - -“Go on,” said Jack. “Stock, I think, was the last word. ‘Stock at the -ruling quotation at once, and oblige yours very truly.’ That’ll do. -I’ll sign it while you are addressing the envelope.” - -“Is this one of your jokes, Jack?” asked Millie, handing him the -envelope. - -“I’m not in the habit of joking in matters of business,” replied Jack, -with a serio-comic expression. - -“Then you really are dabbling in stocks, which you ought not to do,” -said Millie, severely. - -“Do you take me for a kid, Miss Price?” asked the boy, trying hard to -suppress a grin. - -“‘Miss Price’! Come--I like that!” she exclaimed, flashing a -half-reproachful glance at him. - -“I was only teasing you, Millie. Yes; I have been fooling a bit with -the market. Eleven days ago I bought on the usual ten-per-cent margin -one hundred and twenty-five shares of L. S. at thirty-six. I am going -to sell out at once.” - -Millie grabbed up that morning’s “Wall Street Indicator” and ran her -eyes down the list of stock quotations. - -“Here it is: L. S. closing price, seventy-six. Jack Hazard! You don’t -mean to say----” - -The girl stopped through sheer amazement. - -“I don’t mean to say what?” laughed Jack. - -“That you have one hundred and twenty-five shares.” - -“That’s what I have.” - -“And you bought in at thirty-six?” - -“That’s what I did.” - -“Why, that’s a profit of five thousand dollars, you reckless boy!” -gasped Millie, after a rapid mental calculation. - -“That’s the way I figured it--if the price doesn’t break before my -broker can sell it this morning.” - -“Well!” - -That’s all she said, for just then Mr. Bishop came in; but the -exclamation spoke volumes. - -“I should like to go out five minutes on a little matter of business, -Mr. Bishop,” said Jack, and on receiving the desired permission, he -rushed down to Bird’s office and handed in the envelope, which he had -marked “Important.” - -It was half-past ten when the young messenger returned to the office -from his first errand. - -“Mr. Bishop wants you,” said the bookkeeper. - -The manager was dictating to Millie. - -“Take this note----” began Mr. Bishop to Jack. - -“Mr. Warren wishes to see you, sir,” interrupted a clerk at that -juncture. - -“Tell him to step right in.” - -Mr. Warren, one of the firm’s largest customers, walked into the -private office hurriedly. - -“Say, Bishop, I just got out in time, didn’t I? L. S. has gone to -pieces, and the Exchange is in a panic.” - -Millie, with a startled look, glanced at Jack. - -The boy had turned as white as a ghost. - -“You’re wanted at the ’phone, Hazard,” said another clerk, poking his -head inside the sanctum. - -“May I----” began the boy, in a shaky voice. - -“Certainly; answer it,” said the manager, without looking up. - -“Poor boy,” murmured Millie as Jack almost staggered out of the private -office. “I feel so sorry for him,” and she looked as if she wanted to -cry. - -“What’s the matter with your messenger?” asked Mr. Warren. - -“Nothing that I know of,” replied Mr. Bishop, in surprise. “Why?” - -“Why, he looked as if he was going to faint just now.” - -“I didn’t observe it; maybe he’s sick. He didn’t say anything about -feeling bad. So the bottom has fallen out of L. S., eh?” - -In the meantime Jack reached the ’phone and grasped the receiver in a -mechanical way. - -“Well?” he shouted, hoarsely. - -“That you, Jack?” - -“That you, Mr. Bird?” - -“Yes. L. S. is on the slump, and no telling where it will fetch up; -but you’re safe, young man. Your order to sell came in the very nick -of time. I disposed of your stock at seventy-six, the top figure, and -I had hardly recorded the transaction before Yates, a big gun, dumped -ten thousand shares on the market. Hartz couldn’t handle it, and -pandemonium has resulted. I congratulate you. You had the closest kind -of a call. See you later. Good-bye.” - -“Gee whiz!” muttered Jack as he hung up the receiver, barely repressing -a whoop of delight. “I’ve scooped the trick! And to think that a minute -ago I was nearly frightened out of my boots!” - - - - -CHAPTER XII. - -THE DUDE AND THE VIOLETS. - - -Jack hustled on his next errand as if the wings of Mercury were -attached to his ankles. - -He was fairly tickled to death over the coup he had made on the market. - -Five thousand dollars! - -It kept ringing in his ears and marked time to his nimble footsteps. - -And it was pleasant music, too, you may well believe. - -When he got back, the first thing he did was to tell of his good luck -to Millie. - -And wasn’t she glad? - -Well, don’t say a word! - -She had been fearing the worst and sympathizing with him in her mind, -and after all it had been a false alarm. - -“What are you going to do with so much money?” she asked, with a smile. - -“I haven’t decided whether I’ll buy a farm or start a bank,” replied -Jack, with a happy grin. - -“What a comparison!” laughed the pretty stenographer. - -A little while afterward he told Mr. Bishop, and the manager was amazed. - -“You’re a lucky boy, Jack; but don’t try it again.” - -Late in the afternoon he went around to Bird’s office. - -The big broker was in and expecting a visit from him. - -“It’s better to be born lucky than rich, young man,” he said, genially. -“Do you know, if you had allowed yourself to get caught in that deal I -should have been tempted to have given you a dressing-down. As it was, -you took altogether too many chances. You only escaped by the skin of -your teeth. Why, I got rid of my holdings at sixty-nine two days ago, -and I was half tempted to sell you out at the same time. Only, you see, -that isn’t according to Hoyle.” - -“I’m glad you didn’t treat me like a kid--for that is what it would -have amounted to if you had used your own judgment against my orders.” - -“I’m glad myself, seeing how the thing has turned out. I’ll send you a -statement and a certified check to-morrow.” - -“Don’t forget to deduct your regular commissions,” said Jack, promptly. - -“All right,” replied the broker, who understood the boy thoroughly. - -“I wish I was of age,” said Jack, wistfully. - -“Why so?” - -“Because then I could sign checks and not have to draw my money -personally whenever I wanted to use it. It would save me lots of time.” - -“I hope you aren’t thinking of making a practice of this sort of thing. -If you are, you’ll make a mistake. The best thing that could happen to -people who come into Wall Street is to lose their first deal. It might -serve to scare them off for good.” - -“Your advice is good, Mr. Bird, and I am much obliged to you for it; -but if I see another good thing going to waste I should feel sorry to -let it get away from me.” - -“Good things are not handed out to the public, Jack. You came by the -L. S. tip through sheer horse luck--a chance in a million.” - -Jack made no answer to that, but took his leave soon, after promising -to dine with Mr. Bird the next evening at Sherry’s. - -On the way back to the office our young messenger boy bought a nice -bunch of violets, which he artfully attached to Millie’s Remington -while she was taking down the final dictation of the day in Mr. -Atherton’s room. - -“Where did these come from?” she asked Jack, who was perched over in -the corner, reading a copy of that week’s “Financial Chronicle,” as she -reseated herself at the machine. - -The sly puss knew pretty well who had bought them, but that was one of -her little coquetries. - -“I think it was that dude that was in here the other day that brought -them expressly for you. He works upstairs, you know,” replied Jack, -smothering a grin. - -Before she could reply, in walked that self-same dude, Percy -Chamberlain, with a duplicate bunch of violets. - -And straightway he pranced up to Millie and held out the flowers, with -a low bow. - -“Will you accept these flowers, Miss Price? Bought them expressly for -you, don’t you know.” - -Millie was astonished. - -“Why, hello, George Augustus Fitzwilliam!” exclaimed Jack, dropping the -paper and gliding over to the dude clerk, whose left hand he seized and -shook as if he were some long-lost friend. “We haven’t seen you for two -whole days. Where have you been keeping yourself?” - -Percy, who was a tall, thin, good-looking Englishman, one of the clerks -of the British & North American Fire Insurance Company, with offices on -the third floor of the building, gave a howl of pain and then hopped -about the floor like a monkey on a hot stove. - -“What do you mean, fellow, squeezing my--aw--hand in this mannah? Don’t -you know any bettah?” - -Percy was very angry indeed. - -“What do you want me to do? Give you one of those pumphandle shakes? -That isn’t my style, George Augustus,” snickered Jack. - -“I wish you would keep your distance, boy,” said Percy, resentfully. -“I don’t wish to be bothered by you, don’t you know. You’re only the -office boy. Really, Miss Price,” he said stooping to pick up the -violets he had dropped, “these American boys are deuced annoying, -don’t you know. These flowers are for you. Hot-house specials, from -Hutchins’,” mentioning a prominent florist on Broadway. - -“Gee!” exclaimed Jack, who had been watching his chance to chip in -again, “I’m sorry to call you a liar, George Augustus, but you bought -’em off that dago down stairs. That’s where these came from, and if -there’s any difference between ’em I’d like you to point it out. Same -trade-mark on each,” and he pointed to the bit of red cord with which -each bunch was secured. - -“One bunch is quite enough for me,” said Millie, with a laugh. “If -you’d come first, Mr. Chamberlain, why, I might have accepted yours.” - -“Really----” began Percy. - -“Come, George Augustus, you’d better sneak. Miss Price has several -letters to copy, and she wants to get home some time this afternoon, -don’t you know,” mimicking the Englishman. - -“Won’t you accept them, Miss Price,” persisted Percy, after an -indignant look at Hazard. - -“You will have to excuse me, Mr. Chamberlain,” said Millie, turning to -her machine and commencing to click off her notes, thereby ignoring the -dudish visitor. - -“Good-bye, George Augustus,” cried Jack, as the disappointed Englishman -started slowly for the door. “Come in again when you haven’t so long to -stay.” - -“You’re an insulting fellow. I don’t wish you to notice me again,” -angrily retorted the insurance clerk just as he was passing out of the -doorway. - -“It was very kind of you to bring me those violets,” said Millie to -Jack as the door closed. “It’s my favorite flower.” - -“You see, I’m getting reckless now; I’ve money to burn,” laughed the -boy. “Next thing you know, I’ll be asking you to marry me.” - -“You silly boy!” exclaimed Millie, blushing furiously as Jack ran away. - - - - -CHAPTER XIII. - -SILAS HOCKINS, FROM AVALANCH, N. J. - - -A few days after that, as Jack was coming out of the Post Office, he -was stopped by a sun-burned, countrified-looking man, who said: - -“Waal, sonny, kin yeou tell me where Nassau Street is?” - -“Sure; come right along with me and I’ll steer you into it,” replied -the boy, good-naturedly. - -But before the countryman could take a step, a dark-featured man, -dressed in a checked suit, with a Brazilian sunstone in a gaudy scarf, -and a strong odor of the Tenderloin about him, stepped up and, grasping -the farmer by the hand, exclaimed: - -“Why, how do you do, Silas Hockins? When did you come to town?” - -“Waal, naow, yeou seem tew know me, mister, but I’m gosh-darned ef I -kin place yeou fur a cent,” answered Farmer Hockins, in a puzzled way. - -“Why, I was down in your neighborhood all last summer. Avalanch, New -Jersey, is where you live, isn’t it?” - -“Waal, naow, I expect yeou’re right there, mister; but I don’t -recollect yeou, just the same.” - -“My name is Bond--Steve Bond.” - -Silas Hockins shook his head, while Jack Hazard, who stood a few feet -away, sized the other stranger up for a confidence man. - -He was certain of it a moment later when the farmer said: - -“Seems yeou’re the second one thet’s stopped me sence I landed from the -ferryboat. The other chap thought he knowed me, too; but when he found -out my name was Silas Hockins and thet I lived in Avalanch, New Jersey, -why, he ’pologized and went off. He thought I was Josh Whitcomb, from -Newark. Haw, haw, haw!” - -“You mustn’t mind that, Hockins,” said the man, with a crafty smile. -“We New Yorkers are mighty glad to meet our friends from the country, -and we always do the right thing by ’em.” - -“Waal, naow, yeou don’t say!” - -“Say,” put in Jack at this point, “I’m waiting for you. You want to -find Nassau Street, don’t you?” - -“Never mind, young man; you can run along. I’ll take charge of Mr. -Hockins and show him all that’s to be seen.” - -The New Jerseyman seemed undecided what to do, seeing which, Jack -decided to block the sharper’s game. - -“Look here,” he said, in a low voice; “I’m dead on to you. There’s a -cop across the street. If you don’t take a glide, I’ll run over and -give him the tip-off.” - -The sharper saw that his game was up. - -“I sha’n’t forget you, young man, if I ever come across you again,” he -said, angrily, as he turned and walked away without another word to the -countryman. - -“I reckon he don’t know me arter all,” remarked Mr. Hockins, taking a -fresh hold on his carpetbag as the man from the Tenderloin faded around -the corner of the Post Office. “Still, he seemed to hev my name and -whar I cum from right pat.” - -“He didn’t know you at all. That fellow was a confidence man.” And -as Silas Hockins followed across the street into Ann Street, the boy -explained the old threadbare game to him. - -“Waal, naow, yeou’re right smart, I reckon, to see through thet chap at -once. I s’pose yeou drink, don’t yeou? A glass of cider would kinder -hit me in the right place,” and Hockins paused in front of a saloon. - -“I’ll wait for you, if you don’t linger too long,” answered Jack. - -“Ain’t yeou comin’ in?” - -The boy shook his head. - -“Waal, I won’t be more’n a minit.” - -Jack glanced over a cheap lot of books on a vendor’s cart drawn up -alongside the narrow walk until Silas Hockins reappeared. - -“This is Nassau Street,” said Jack, after they had walked a short -block. “Where did you want to go?” - -“Waal, I’ll tell yeou. I want tew get tew Wall Street, and Dominie -Hudson, of our town, told me ef I found Nassau Street I could walk -right into it.” - -“He told you right. Come along; I’ll take you there.” - -“Be yeou goin’ thet way, then?” - -“Sure; that’s where I work.” - -“Sho! Yeou don’t say! Maybe yeou kin tell me where I kin find some of -them thar bulls and bears what folks talk about.” - -“You want to visit the Stock Exchange. I’ll get you an admission ticket -from my boss.” - -“Will yeou? That’s kind of yeou.” - -“Where do you expect to stop while you’re in town?” asked Jack, -thinking he might direct Mr. Hockins to a cheap but respectable hotel. - -“Waal, I’ll tell yeou. I’m goin’ over to Brooklyn to try and hunt up a -niece of mine I hain’t seen sense she was married, nigh on to twenty -year ago. Her name was Sarah Dusenbury, but she married a Price. She’s -got a grown-up darter thet works one of them highfalutin writin’ -machines like this,” and Mr. Hockins dropped his bag and proceeded to -give a comical illustration of how one clicks the keys of a typewriter. - -“Her name isn’t Millie Price, is it?” exclaimed Jack, with some -interest. - -“Why, haow did yeou guess thet? Thet’s the gal’s name, sure.” - -“Would you know her if you saw her?” - -“Waal, no, seein’ ez I hain’t never seen her in my life. She’s a good -gal, I’ve heerd, and I’ve concluded to do somethin’ fer her and her -mother. I’ve saved a leetle somethin’ sence I took ter farmin’, an’ ez -I hain’t got no one but my niece to leave it to, I’ve come on tew hunt -her up.” - -“You’d better come to the office with me. Our stenographer is named -Millie Price, and perhaps she’s your relative.” - -“Waal, it won’t dew no harm tew see the gal. She kin tell ef her ma’s -name is Sarah Dusenbury Price and ef she wuz born daown East in the -same taown I hailed from, and sich like.” - -So Jack piloted Silas Hockins into Atherton’s office. - -Then he rushed up to Millie. - -“Was your mother’s name Sarah Dusenbury before she married Mr. Price?” - -“Yes,” replied the girl, opening her eyes very wide indeed. “How did -you come to find that out, Jack?” - -“I met a relative of yours, Silas Hockins, and brought him here. He’s -in the reception-room. He wants to find where you live. Hadn’t you -better see him?” - -“I’ve often heard mother speak of her uncle Silas, but I’ve never seen -him nor has he ever seen me.” - -“Well, Millie, I think he’s a good thing to freeze to, as he told me -he has money and calculates on doing the right thing by you and your -mother. If I were you, I’d steer him right over to your home. Mr. -Bishop will let you off, I guess. Go out and see him now. And don’t -ever say I didn’t do you a good turn.” - -Millie had no trouble in identifying herself to Mr. Hockins’ -satisfaction. - -She got leave of absence for the rest of the afternoon, and took Silas -home with her. - -As Jack had figured, Mr. Hockins’ arrival proved a good thing in the -end for both Mrs. Price and her daughter Millie. - - - - -CHAPTER XIV. - -A POINTER--WORTH WHAT? - - -“I wish I had half your luck, Jack,” said Ed one morning shortly after -the young messenger had scooped in that $5,000 on L. S. stock. - -“I suppose you are referring to what I made the other day.” - -“Yes; and I can’t see how you did it.” - -“I’m not surprised. I gave you the tip to buy as many shares as you -could put up the margin for. Did you do it? No; you were afraid to risk -even a ten-dollar note on a good thing. Well, you lost your chance.” - -“I lost more than that,” said Ed, with a mournful look. - -“What did you lose?” - -“Fifteen plunks.” - -“In what way?” - -“Well, after you told me you had collared five thousand dollars on L. -S. I went home and kicked myself around the block.” - -“That was right. You deserved it. If you’d only bought two shares of L. -S. as I told you to at first, you might have made seventy-five dollars -clear profit.” - -“That’s what I said to myself. I felt I’d been a chump. You made a -bunch of easy money while I hadn’t made a sou. Well, along came Denny -McFadden, and I told him what a calf I’d been. He asked me if I had any -money. I told him I had fifteen dollars. Then he offered to put me next -to something that beat stocks all hollow. I knew what he meant, and -fought shy. But he talked me into going around to a certain pool-room -with him, just to see how the thing was worked.” - -“You needn’t go any further, Ed,” said Jack. “I know what you’re going -to say. Denny got you to wager your fifteen dollars on some horse -before you left. Isn’t that it?” - -“Yes; I put the whole thing on Custard Pie, a long shot, one hundred -to one. Denny said he had a tip that the nag was slated to win next -day. He’d been over at the track and claimed he knew all about it. -It was the same as picking up the money, and when I got the fifteen -hundred I was to give him five hundred for the tip.” - -“Ed, you’re easy. I thought you knew what Denny is by this time. As -for racing, don’t you know that race-tracks are open gambling-places, -maintained in defiance of the State Constitution because of a law -passed corruptly?” - -“I know pool-rooms are maintained in defiance of the law, but at the -tracks you can bet all you want. I don’t see why----” - -“I’m not going to argue the matter, Ed. I’m interested in the stock -market, not in the race-track. Now, I’ll tell you what I’ll do for -you the next time I catch on to a good thing: I’ll put up twenty-five -dollars for you in connection with my own venture. That’ll give you a -small stake if I win.” - -“If you do that, Jack, you’re a brick,” said Ed, brightening up. - -“I’ll do it, all right.” And there the matter dropped for the time -being. - -In spite of the well-meant advice of Oliver Bird and Mr. Bishop, Jack -was itching another crack at the market. - -All the same, it wasn’t his idea to go at the thing blindfolded. - -He hardly expected to pick up another tip like the last. - -Still, he kept his eyes and ears wide open, so that in case anything -worth while drifted his way it wouldn’t get by him. - -Any small favor would be thankfully received. - -He was on speaking terms with a good many brokers, and he knew every -prominent one by sight. - -Next day Jack was coming along New Street about lunch hour, when he ran -into Hartz, the Exchange Place broker. - -Hartz was a little, wiry man, with snappy black eyes, and was about as -shrewd as you find them down in the financial district. - -Ever since the day Jack saved Oliver Bird from taking his own life in -the office of the broker, Hartz had taken more or less notice of the -boy, which was something unusual for him to do. - -As we have already seen, he gave Ed Potter a job entirely on Jack’s -recommendation. - -“Hello, young man! Who are you running into?” exclaimed the broker, -grabbing the boy with both his arms and holding him tight. - -“I beg your pardon, Mr. Hartz, but I didn’t see you.” - -“No; I’m not quite as big as Bird,” grinned Hartz. “How long have you -been on the Street now, Hazard?” - -“Six months, sir.” - -“Look as if you’d cut your eye teeth by this time. It’s a wonder you -don’t get into trouble with that tongue of yours.” - -“Why so?” asked Jack, in surprise. - -“Yesterday morning, when you came into my office, young Percy -Chamberlain, secretary for the resident manager of the British and -North American Fire Insurance Company, was there talking to Miss -Kitson, my stenographer. Just as you stepped up to her desk he remarked -that he was the last remaining member of his family, whereupon you said -you read in the morning paper that the lobster was becoming extinct. -And I suppose you wondered why Chamberlain left the office in a huff. -You’re a peach!” - -Jack grinned. - -“Percy makes me tired,” he said. “He’s always dropping in and bothering -our typewriter with his silly remarks, so I make a point of giving a -shot where I can.” - -There was a twinkle in Hartz’s eye. - -“Ever take a flyer on the market?” he asked, suddenly. - -“Once.” - -“When was that?” - -“Couple of weeks ago.” - -“How did you come out?” - -“Ahead.” - -“Lucky boy.” - -“I s’pose you haven’t any tips to give away, have you, Mr. Hartz?” -grinned Jack. “You owe me one for saving that carpet of yours the day -Mr. Bird got reckless.” - -“Don’t carry such things about with me,” said Hartz, in his sharp, -off-hand way. Then, after fixing the boy with his penetrating eyes a -moment, he suddenly said: “If you’ve got twenty-five or fifty dollars -you haven’t any use for, you might buy a few shares of D. & G. just to -keep your thoughts off Percy Chamberlain,” and the broker nodded and -walked away. - -Jack looked after him. - -“A few shares of D. & G.,” he muttered. “I wonder if he meant that? -I noticed that stock went up a point yesterday and two points so far -to-day. Looks as if it was a safe investment. I’d give something to -find out if that was the stock I saw him rushing about after this -morning on the floor of the Exchange? It isn’t like him, or any other -broker, for that matter, to give out a real, Simon-pure pointer. It -isn’t business. Still, I notice Hartz treats me different from most -people. Maybe he’s grateful because I saved him from something like -a scandal; at any rate, a good many hard things would have been said -about him if Mr. Bird had killed himself up in his office that morning. -I’ll have to think this over. I guess it wouldn’t be fair to tell -anyone what he said about buying D. & G. He kind of sized me up pretty -sharp before he opened his mouth about it. I know he doesn’t like -Chamberlain coming in his office and taking up Miss Kitson’s time, and -he was tickled because I started the dude on the run. I’d like to make -another haul out of the market. Hartz hasn’t the least idea I have -$5,000 in bank. If he had, I guess----” - -“Hello, Jack!” interrupted the voice of Ed Potter, and his chum grasped -him by the arm. “Let’s go in here and have a bite.” - -Jack allowed his friend to steer him into a crowded New Street -quick-lunch house. - -They ordered coffee and stew as soon as a couple of stools were vacated. - -“I s’pose you haven’t the least idea whether or not your boss is -buying any D. & G. stock, have you?” whispered Jack. - -Ed shook his head. - -“You can’t learn much up in that place, I can tell you that. I know -Hartz did buy a block of some kind of stock yesterday from a Mr. -Warren, for I was sent over to get it.” - -“You mean George Warren, of--Broad Street?” - -“Yep.” - -Jack made a mental note. - -“And I fetched another stack of stock this morning from Bentley & -Clews.” - -“You don’t know what that was?” - -“Nope.” - -“Say, Ed, s’pose we take in the Academy to-night,” said Jack, suddenly -changing the subject. - -“I’m with you. What’s playing there?” - -“‘In Old Japan.’ Well, so long. I’ll wait for you at the house.” - - - - -CHAPTER XV. - -IN THE GRASP OF THE MARKET. - - -“Mr. Atherton, do you know if Mr. George Warren has any D. & G. stock?” -asked Jack of his employer that afternoon. - -It was a rather cheeky thing for the boy to do, but then he was -something of a privileged character with the boss. - -“I believe he has. At least, we bought a block of it for him some time -ago. There’s been an advance in it yesterday and to-day, but I don’t -fancy it will go any higher. Anybody ask you for the information?” -asked Mr. Atherton, pointedly. - -“No, sir; I was thinking of buying a few shares myself on margin.” - -“Well, I guess Warren will let you have what he has at sixty-two, if -you would like to buy it outright. It’ll cost you about three hundred -and ten thousand dollars cash,” said Mr. Atherton, with an amused smile. - -“I don’t think my bank account would stand for that,” answered Jack, -with a grin. - -“Seriously, Jack,” said his boss, “I wouldn’t advise you to buy any -stock on margins. I don’t want you to catch the fever. It’s dangerous. -You’ve no idea of the money engaged in productive industry, money -earned by hard years of labor and economy, money held in trust for -widows and orphans, money stolen from banks and corporations, money -abstracted by clerks and office boys, is carried into Wall Street, in -the vain hope of acquiring a sudden fortune, and there remains.” - -Mr. Atherton turned to his desk, and Jack went back to his duties, -satisfied he had learned something, at any rate. - -“How could I find out if Bentley & Clews have any D. & G. stock?” asked -Jack of Mr. Bishop, at the first opportunity. - -“Why do you wish to know?” asked the manager, perhaps a bit sharply, -for the question coming from Jack rather surprised him. - -“I have a personal reason for wishing to know,” replied the boy, -respectfully. - -Mr. Bishop looked at him a moment or two before he answered. - -“I happen to know that Bentley & Clews have no D. & G. stock in their -possession--at least, they didn’t have an hour ago. They delivered a -large block of it this morning to Mr. Hartz--all they had on hand.” - -“Thank you, sir.” - -“Of course, whatever I tell you or you may accidentally learn while in -our employ must go no further. You understand that, I suppose?” - -“Certainly, sir.” - -That night, before Jack went to the theatre, he had decided to buy as -many shares of D. & G. on a ten-per-cent margin as he could afford. - -The bank where Jack had his money on deposit--except $500 with which -he had reopened an account at the Seaman’s Savings--had a department -devoted to the purchase and sale, through outside brokers, of stock for -the accommodation of its customers. - -D. & G. opened at 62⅜, and as soon as he got a chance the boy ran -over to the bank, saw Mr. Black, who had charge of the department in -question, and asked him to buy for his account 700 shares of D. & G. at -the ruling figure, provided that in the meantime the stock did not go -above 63. - -Mr. Black ’phoned one of their brokers, but it was some little time -before that number of shares was obtained, as it seemed to be scarce -that morning. At any rate, it cost Jack 63, the 700 shares figuring up -$44,100. Ten per cent of the purchase price, or $4,410, Jack drew and -paid to Mr. Black. - -When the Exchange closed for the day D. & G. was quoted at 64⅝, and -Jack was therefore something like $1,000 to the good. - -“I was up in the Bronx to-day, John, visiting the Deans,” said his -mother, at the supper table. “They have a very nice place there, and -it only cost them about $5,000. I think it would be a good idea if you -went up that way next Sunday and took a look around. There are a lot -of nice houses for sale in that locality. You have some money in bank -now--enough to buy a nice little place. I am sure it would be much -more comfortable to live in our own house and much healthier than to -continue here, where the neighborhood is so crowded. Annie and I were -talking the matter over before you came in. She’d like to go with you, -and I am sure the exercise and fresh air would be good for her.” - -“All right, mother,” agreed Jack. “We’ll take Ed along, too.” - -“Will you?” said his sister, brightening up. - -“Sure. He’ll be glad to go, sis. He thinks there isn’t another girl who -can hold a candle to you.” - -“The idea!” said Annie, with a blush. - -“Yes, the idea!” he said, mimicking her. “What are you blushing about?” - -“Why, I’m not blushing,” she answered, in evident confusion. - -“You’re not blushing? I’ll leave it to mother,” said Jack, merrily. - -“You mustn’t tease your sister, John.” - -“All right,” said Jack, obediently, “if that’s the orders.” - -“You’re real mean,” said Annie, with a charming little pout. “Suppose I -was to tease you about Millie Price?” - -“Pooh! What about her?” - -“Oh, you think I don’t know anything about her. Ed told me lots about -you and her.” - -“Did he? Then I’ll murder him; see if I don’t,” cried the boy, shaking -his fist, with mimic ferocity, in the air. - -“Ha, ha, ha, ha!” laughed Annie, clapping her hands, gleefully. - -“I’m going to bring her up to see you some Sunday,” said Jack. - -“That will be real nice,” said Annie, with much interest. “Why not -next Sunday. Bring her to dinner, and then we can all go to the Bronx -together in the afternoon. Mother, make Jack promise to do that.” - -“I should be very glad to have her come to dinner, John, if you would -like to have her come.” - -“All right, sis; I’ll ask her if she will come. I’ve had the plan in my -head some time, but somehow I never thought to ask you.” - -“I don’t believe a word of that, Jack,” said his sister, tantalizingly. -“You were afraid I’d tease you about her. You know you were.” - -“Nonsense!” objected the boy, flushing up in his turn. - -“Who’s blushing now?” and Annie laughed gleefully. - -Jack jumped up and chased his sister several times about the table, but -failed to catch her till she took refuge on the floor beside her mother. - -He grabbed her in his arms. - -“Now, that’s not fair! Is it, mother?” - -Jack’s answer was a rousing kiss. - -“You big bear!” she exclaimed, pushing him away, while her eyes fairly -danced with fun. - -Jack dreamed that night that his D. & S. stock had gone up out of sight -and that he had made $10,000,000. - -For the rest of the week, whenever he had the chance, he kept his -eye on the indicator that ticked out its monotonous song in the -reception-room during business hours, and every day D. & S. advanced, -sometimes with provoking slowness and sometimes with little bounds, -like a boy chasing himself up a flight of stairs. - -But the tendency was always upward. - -“When will it stop?” mused the lad; “when go the other way? How long -dare I hold on?” - -And Millie Price watched his eager attention to that fatal piece of -mechanism with an anxious eye. - -She said nothing. - -He hadn’t told her he had embarked in the treacherous whirlpool of Wall -Street speculation again, but she knew with the unerring accuracy of -a sympathetic and deeply interested observer experienced in all the -signs that go with the game. - -And it worried her--for exactly how much she thought of Jack no one but -herself in this world knew. - - - - -CHAPTER XVI. - -PLAYING FOR A HIGH STAKE. - - -“Millie,” said Jack, about Saturday noon, “mother and sister Annie have -heard so much about you from Ed and I that they are very very anxious -to know you. Will you dine with us to-morrow? I will come over to your -house and fetch you.” - -Millie blushed a little as she looked at the handsome, stalwart young -messenger, and hesitated what reply to make. - -“Well, Millie, is it yes?” - -“Yes, but on one condition,” she answered, earnestly. - -“All right; what’s the condition?” - -“You must answer me one question--truthfully.” - -“I agree to that. But do you think I would not answer truthfully any -question you might ask?” he asked, reproachfully. - -“No, Jack,” she said, seizing one of his hands; “it isn’t that, but----” - -“Well?” - -“You may not want to answer this question in the way I wish.” - -“Try me and see.” - -“I know I have no right to be so inquisitive. It oughtn’t to be any -of my business. I hope you won’t be angry with me. But, Jack, I’m -afraid----” - -She stopped, and the boy thought he saw a tear glisten in her eye. - -“Promise me that you won’t be provoked with me?” she continued, -impulsively. - -“Why, of course I promise you,” he said, greatly curious to learn what -it was that affected her so deeply. - -“You have gone into the market again, haven’t you?” - -“Why, how did you guess?” he asked in surprise. - -“How? There are a dozen signs you have given which are quite plain to -me.” - -“Well, I admit the fact.” - -“How much of your five thousand dollars have you risked on a margin?” -she continued, with some hesitation. - -“How much? Almost the limit.” - -“Oh, Jack, I feared as much! You are so enthusiastic--so reckless!” - -“I’ll tell you the story and let you judge for yourself.” - -And he did. - -“Do you really mean that Mr. Hartz gave you that tip?” - -“That’s what he did.” - -“From what I have heard about him, he’s the very last man in Wall -Street to do such a thing.” - -“The smartest men will sometimes make strange breaks, I’ve heard,” said -Jack. “I believe Hartz wanted to do me a favor for that affair of Bird -in his office; but I doubt if he really would have given me such a tip -nine hundred and ninety-nine times of out of a thousand, for business -reasons, you know.” - -“You bought seven hundred shares of D. & G. at sixty-three. What is it -to-day?” she asked anxiously. - -“Last quotation when the Exchange closed at noon was eighty-one.” - -“Eighty-one!” exclaimed Millie. “A gain of eighteen points in less than -six days! Why, you crazy boy, why don’t you sell?” - -“Because I expect it will go to ninety--to three figures, for that -matter. Hartz’s corners are almost uniformly successful, I have heard.” - -“You foolish boy! They may quietly unload at any moment.” - -“I don’t think they will until the stock goes above ninety.” - -“Why?” she asked with astonished eyes. - -“I couldn’t explain to you, Millie, just why I believe so. I’ve been -studying the ground. I’ve even found out several of the people Hartz -has got in with him. Every one of them can write his check for a -million, lose it, and not miss the loss.” - -“Why, how could you get such inside information?” - -“Simply by having something definite to start with--that was Hartz--and -then by using my eyes, my ears, and my brains.” - -“Jack, you are either a wonder, or----” - -She didn’t complete the sentence. - -“Or a chump, eh?” he said, with a light laugh. “I intend to hold out -for ninety-two, if the stock goes that high, as I feel sure it will, -and over. That will return me a profit of twenty thousand dollars, -which, added to my original capital, will make me worth twenty-five -thousand dollars.” - -“Pretty good for a boy of----” - -“I was seventeen three months ago.” - -“Well, Jack, I earnestly hope that you will come out all right. But you -are taking a terrible risk, and I shall be nervous till I know you have -won out.” - -“It is understood I am to call for you to-morrow, is it?” - -“Yes, Jack, it is.” - -So Millie went to the Hazard flat next day and was introduced to Jack’s -mother and sister, who were much pleased with her pretty face and sunny -disposition. - -Ed came in soon after dinner, and the two boys and the two girls -started up to the Bronx, where they spent a pleasant afternoon, -wandering about with an occasional eye to a desirable vacant house that -had the sign “For Sale” attached. - -“This is something like counting one’s chickens before they’re hatched, -isn’t it,” said Jack, after they had inspected one very pretty place -which seemed to answer all expectations. “I like this house; don’t you, -Annie?” - -“Very much, indeed.” - -“Well, if things continue to come my way, I’ll come up toward the end -of the week, maybe, and put a deposit on it.” - -“What’s the matter with doing it to-morrow?” chipped in Ed. “You’ve got -five thousand dollars stowed away in the Citizens’ Bank. What do you -want to wait for?” - -Which remark showed that Potter didn’t know everything. In other words, -he didn’t know about his chum’s latest deal in D. & G. For reasons that -he considered good and sufficient Jack had kept that fact from him. - -But he intended to keep his word to Ed and give him the profit of three -shares, or what was practically equal to a hundred-dollar note. - -On Monday morning D. & G. opened at 81⅜. - -From this on, another pair of eager eyes in the office followed the -rise of the syndicate stock. - -Millie was almost as excited over it as Jack himself. - -It reached and hovered around 90 all day Thursday. - -The pretty stenographer was so nervous she could hardly do her work, -and twice she couldn’t refrain from scribbling the words “PLEASE SELL” -in big capital letters on a slip of paper and passing it over to Jack -with beseeching eyes. - -But the boy only smiled and never turned a hair. - -He had the nerve of the oldest and most successful operator on the -Street. - -“It’s ninety-two or bust,” he said to her the last time. - -“But, Jack, it seems to be standing still to-day.” - -“Only resting to catch its breath for a fresh effort,” grinned the -reckless messenger. - -Millie threw up her hands with a little gesture of despair, whereat -Jack laughed and walked off. - - - - -CHAPTER XVII. - -THE GOPHER MINING COMPANY TURNS UP A TRUMP. - - -“This is my lucky day,” said Jack to Millie next morning as he stood -in front of her desk while she was taking the japanned case off her -machine. - -“What--Friday?” - -“Yep.” - -“Mother calls it hangman’s day, and superstitious people won’t do lots -of things on that day.” - -“Pooh! America was discovered on a Friday; many of our most -distinguished men were born on a Friday, and many famous events -occurred on a Friday. So there you are!” - -Jack went to his work, and Millie started to copy several letters from -shorthand notes of the day before. - -About this time Mr. Bishop came in, and the first thing he did was to -send Jack with an order to a William Street printer. - -When he got back, the cashier handed him a letter addressed to him, -care of the firm, bearing the Denver postmark, which had been delivered -by the postman while he was out. - -In one corner was the imprint of the “Gopher Gold Mining Company.” - -The boy tore it open and found a brief note and a bank draft. - -The latter represented the third annual dividend, this time of three -cents per share, on 5,000 shares, which amounted to $150. - -An accompanying printed enclosure intimated that the dividends would -probably hereafter be declared semi-annually, owing to increased output -and superior character of the ore mined. - -There was also a notification that the price of shares had been -advanced from 15 to 25 cents, and that only a limited number of shares -would be sold at that figure, the company reserving the right to still -further advance the price without notice. - -“Gee!” muttered the boy. “And I only gave that old fellow fifty dollars -for the stock, and here I’ve got back one hundred and fifty already, -while the value the company places on five thousand shares is twelve -hundred and fifty. Maybe I didn’t strike it lucky when I bought those -certificates.” - -“There must be something interesting in that letter from the way you -are smiling over it,” said Millie as she passed him on her way back to -her desk. - -“Hold on, Millie,” he said, and she stopped to listen to what he had to -say. “Didn’t I tell you this was my lucky day?” - -“I think you did,” she answered, with a smile. - -“Remember that mining stock I bought some months ago from an old -gentleman by the name of Tuggs?” - -She nodded. - -“I only gave him fifty dollars for the lot, and now I’ve received my -first dividend of one hundred and fifty, with more to come, and the -company’s estimate of the value of my shares is twelve hundred and -fifty dollars. How’s that for luck?” - -Of course, Millie congratulated him; so also did both Mr. Atherton and -Mr. Bishop when they heard about it later on. - -So likewise did the other employees when the intelligence reached them, -though no doubt the younger clerks envied him his luck. - -Indeed, so elated was Jack over his mining shares that he quite forgot -for a time the much more important subject of the D. & G. stock, which, -however, still clung around the 90 mark as though those figures had -some potent attraction. - -When he went to lunch he met Oliver Bird coming out of a Broad Street -cafe. - -Of course, he had to tell him about his luck with the Gopher Gold -Mining shares. - -“Glad to hear it, Jack,” said the big broker, patting him on the -back. “Nothing succeeds like success, young man. You were successful -in pulling five thousand dollars out of the fire when another and -more experienced person, had he taken the risks you did with that L. -S. stock, would have probably gone up Salt Creek. Had those Gopher -certificates been offered to me on the same terms you gobbled them at, -I shouldn’t have touched them with a ten-foot pole.” - -“They were not so wild-catty, after all,” grinned the lad. - -“It seems not. You’re a pretty ’cute boy.” - -“It isn’t my fault; I must have been born so,” laughed Jack as the -broker gave him another slap on the shoulder and passed on. - -“Hello, Mr. Hartz,” to that operator, who came up at that moment. “Seen -Percy Chamberlain to-day?” - -The broker’s eyes twinkled, and he shook his head. - -“He hasn’t dropped in on our Millie for three whole days,” grinned -Jack. “Must have struck a new mash somewhere. She has my sympathy. -How’s D. & G.?” - -“What about it?” asked Hartz, sharply, fixing Jack with his gimlet eyes. - -“You’re buying it, aren’t you?” - -“Who said so?” demanded the broker, more aggressively than before. - -“Nobody that I know of. It just struck me that you were--that’s all,” -said the boy, lightly. - -“You must have a reason for mentioning it,” said Hartz, gripping him -tightly by the arm. - -“You told me that if I had twenty-five or fifty dollars to spare, to -buy some--on margin, of course.” - -“Oh,” said Hartz, letting go of his arm. - -“So I went the limit of my little pile,” grinned Jack. - -“Then you made a haul?” - -“I haven’t sold it yet.” - -“You’ve a good nerve,” said Hartz. - -“That’s what the dentist told me once when he yanked out a back molar.” - -“Better sell to-day,” chuckled Hartz. - -“I’ll think about it. Kinder ’fraid I might break the market if I let -it all out at once.” - -Hartz punched him in the ribs and passed on. - -When Jack got back to the office after lunch he meandered over to the -indicator. - -Before he reached it, Millie had him by the arm. - -Her eyes were blazing with excitement. - -“Sell, Jack; sell! D. & G. has just been quoted at ninety-two.” - -“Thanks, Millie,” he said with provoking calmness, picking his teeth -with a quill and looking at her quizzically; “but I guess it’s sold by -this time.” - -“What do you mean?” she asked, with wondering eyes. - -“Well, you see, when I went out to eat I stopped in at the bank and -told them to close the deal the moment the stock touched my figure. -That puts it up to them, in a way, and of course they notified their -broker to that effect. I guess I’m safe enough now.” - -“Oh, Jack, I’m so happy!” was all she could say. - - - - -CHAPTER XVIII. - -A LUCKY DEAL. - - -On the following afternoon Jack Hazard met his chum, as usual, at the -corner of Wall Street and Broadway, and the two boys started homeward. - -“I believe I owe you something like a hundred dollars,” casually -remarked Jack, putting his hand in his pocket and fishing up a roll of -bills. - -“You owe me what?” exclaimed the astonished Ed. - -“One hundred dollars,” replied the young messenger, tersely, “and here -it is.” - -He held out the bills. - -“Oh, come off!” grinned Potter, with an envious glance at the wad. - -“Aren’t you going to take ’em?” asked Jack, with a chuckle. - -“What’ll I take ’em for? They don’t belong to me.” - -“Of course they belong to you. Do you think I’m flinging one hundred -dollars of my money at you?” - -“I don’t see how they belong to me.” - -“You want to get a new memory or you’ll land in the tureen first thing -you know, Ed Potter. Some little time ago you told me that you had -dropped fifteen dollars on a hundred-to-one shot that Denny McFadden -induced you to go up against.” - -“That’s right,” admitted Ed. - -“Didn’t I promise you then that I would stake you twenty-five dollars’ -worth in the next deal I went into on the market?” - -“So you did,” Ed suddenly remembered. “And have you really made another -play in stocks?” - -“Yep; been working a deal these two weeks back.” - -“Gee! And you never told me.” - -“I wanted to surprise you.” - -“I guess you have.” - -“I mean by winning a little stake for you.” - -“Oh!” exclaimed Ed. - -“I bought seven hundred shares of D. & G. at sixty-three, on the usual -ten-per-cent margin, at the rate of about twenty-five dollars for every -four shares. I held on to the stock till the shares reached ninety-two, -when I got out from under, giving me a profit of twenty-nine dollars -per share. Your four shares figure up, less commissions, about one -hundred dollars. There it is. Don’t handle it so gingerly; it’s good -money. I got it from the Citizens’ Bank.” - -“Jack Hazard, you’re a gentleman. But I don’t think I ought to take -it,” said Ed, hesitatingly. - -“Why not?” - -“It’s just like robbing you.” - -“Nonsense! I’ve cleaned up twenty thousand dollars by the deal, so I -guess I can afford to let you in for a measly little hundred.” - -“Twenty thousand dollars!” gasped Potter, in amazement. - -“Twenty thousand,” repeated Jack. - -“And the other five thousand!” - -“Makes twenty-five thousand cash in the Citizens’ Bank, payable at any -time on demand, plus five hundred in the Seamen’s Savings, plus one -hundred and fifty, representing a dividend I received yesterday from my -western mining stock, which I deposited in the Emigrant Savings Bank on -Chambers Street.” - -“Any more?” asked Ed, in amazement. - -“No; that’s all at present. Grand total, twenty-five thousand six -hundred and fifty dollars.” - -“Why, you’re a rich man.” - -“Excuse me. I’m only seventeen. Won’t be a man for four more years yet.” - -“That don’t cut any ice with you. It isn’t the legal limit that -always makes the man,” said Potter sententiously. “I don’t call Percy -Chamberlain a man, and he is over twenty-one.” - -“You do me proud, Ed,” said Jack as they turned into East Broadway. - -“Don’t mention it. But how did you get the tip this time? Or did you go -it on your own judgment?” - -“You’ll never guess who put me on to it.” - -“Well, I shan’t try.” - -“Hartz.” - -“My boss!” in surprise. - -Jack nodded. - -“But, remember, you mustn’t let on to a living soul.” - -Then the boy told his companion the story of his second fortunate deal -on the stock market. - -“Some day you’ll be a multi-millionaire, Jack,” said Ed, looking at him -admiringly. - -“I hope to keep out of the poorhouse, at any rate.” - -“No fear of you going there. I only wish I had your brains and -backbone.” - -“You mean you wish you knew how to use the brains and backbone you -possess yourself.” - -“Have it any way you like. Suppose you take this hundred and use it for -me when you make your next plunge.” - -“I might lose it.” - -“I’ll risk that.” - -“You’d better talk it over with Annie, and if she says so, I’ll make -you a sort of junior partner.” - -“No; will you?” asked Ed, eagerly. - -“Of course I will.” - -By this time the lads had reached the neighborhood of their homes, and -accordingly separated, Ed promising to come over to Jack’s house next -day. - -For many weeks after that the young messenger boy saw no favorable -chance to make another venture on the stock market. - -He attended faithfully to his duties and was many times commended by -Mr. Atherton for strict attention to the firm’s interests. - -His salary was raised at Christmas, and he received a handsome present -from his boss. - -He also received a valuable remembrance from Mr. Seymour Atherton. - -Nor was he overlooked by Mr. and Mrs. Bruce, who lived in Chicago, who -also enclosed a ruby ring as a gift from little Fanny. - -But the present which gave him the most delight of all, though the -least valuable in a monetary sense, was a pretty leather pocket-book, -with sterling silver trimmings, which came to him from Millie. - -What Jack gave her the pretty stenographer showed only to her mother, -and then put it away somewhere among her treasures. - -At length Jack Hazard’s eighteenth birthday came around. - -He had made a few cautious deals in stocks since the beginning of the -year. - -They had been uniformly successful, though they had not netted him any -very considerable profit in proportion to his two former successes. - -But he was satisfied, for he had doubled his capital, which was now -over $50,000. - -He had also succeeded in putting a couple of thousand dollars into his -friend Potter’s pocket, much to that young man’s great delight, who -expected to marry Jack’s sister in the course of time. - -Not only that, but he had used some of Millie’s money to great -advantage. - -Her salary was not needed now to run the house, as Silas Hockins had -come to live with them and attended to that. - -As we remarked, Jack reached the age of eighteen. - -He received the usual congratulations over the event, but he went about -the firm’s business that day just the same as he always did. - -He was sitting in his chair in the outside office, waiting to be called -on, when Mr. George Warren entered, in no little excitement. - -“Is Mr. Atherton in?” asked the millionaire, eagerly. - -“I believe he is,” replied Jack. “I will tell him you are here.” - -Mr. Warren was admitted to the inner sanctum immediately. - -In five minutes the boss’ bell rang, and Jack went to see what he -wanted. - -“Sit down, Jack,” said Mr. Atherton, much to the boy’s surprise. - -The young messenger took a vacant chair and wondered what was coming. - -“I think you own five thousand shares of the Gopher Gold Mining Company -stock, Jack,” said Mr. Atherton. - -“Yes, sir.” - -“Do you care to sell it?” - -“I haven’t thought about such a thing,” replied the lad, in surprise. - -“Mr. Warren wishes to buy some of the stock. He will give you fifty -dollars a share for your little block.” - -“What!” gasped Jack. “Fifty dollars?” - -“That’s your offer, isn’t it, Mr. Warren?” said the broker, turning to -his customer. - -The millionaire nodded. - -“Why--why----” was all the boy could say. - -“The fact of the matter is, Jack, the Gopher has unexpectedly turned -out to be a bonanza of the richest kind. Information has just come out -this morning that a new lead has been opened up that promises Monte -Cristo results, and the Street is hot on the scent for any stock that -is floating about. Mr. Warren came in here to give me a commission to -get him some of it if I could. I thought of you. The stock isn’t listed -on the Exchange yet, but I understand the application is now before -the Board of Governors, who will act favorably on it. What it will be -quoted at I do not pretend to guess, but Mr. Warren seems willing to -take his chance at fifty. It is up to you whether you will accept or -hold it for a higher figure.” - -“What would you advise me to do, Mr. Atherton?” - -“I think you had better use your own judgment. I believe you are smart -enough to decide the right way.” - -“You can have the stock at fifty, Mr. Warren,” said Jack, after a -moment’s thought. - -“All right. Mr. Atherton, I will send you a certified check for two -hundred and fifty thousand dollars, payable to the order of John -Hazard, and you may send the certificates to my office.” - -“Allow me to congratulate you, Jack. You fully deserve your good -fortune. That was a lucky deal you made with the old man.” - -“Yes, sir. And if I can find him he shall not want for a dollar as long -as he lives,” said the boy, earnestly. - -“He’s a fine lad,” remarked Mr. Warren as the young messenger left the -private office. - -“Millie,” said Jack, stepping up to her, “I want you to congratulate me -on my lucky deal.” - -“I have just sold those five thousand shares of Gopher Gold Mining -Company stock to Mr. Warren.” - -“Have you? That’s nice.” - -“You don’t ask me how much I got for them,” said the boy, with a -mischievous smile. - -“I don’t think I have any right to be so inquisitive, Jack.” - -“I hope some day, not so far off, that you will accept the right, -Millie.” - -It was a bold speech, and the girl’s face flushed a deep scarlet. - -“Aren’t you going to ask me?” he said, almost entreatingly, looking -down at the pretty girl with glistening eyes. - -There was a pause; then she looked up and said softly: - -“How much, Jack?” - -“A quarter of a million,” he replied, exultantly. - -She looked dazed. - -“You don’t mean it!” - -“I’ll show you the check when I get it.” - - * * * * * - -Reader, there is nothing more to be said. Jack got his check that -afternoon, and there was a mild kind of high jinks at the little house -in the Bronx where the Hazard family had been living for some months. -Jack also got Millie Price in due time, and a happier couple does not -to-day live in Greater New York. Jack has a little old gentleman living -with him whom he rescued from the last stages of want at the Mills -Hotel. His name is Tuggs, and Jack and Millie treat him as a valued -friend, and the old man is grateful. That purchase of the Gopher Mining -Company certificates was for Jack Hazard indeed A LUCKY DEAL. - - -THE END. - - * * * * * - -Read “BORN TO GOOD LUCK; OR, THE BOY WHO SUCCEEDED,” which will be the -next number (2) of “Fame and Fortune Weekly.” - - - - -WORK AND WIN. - -The Best Weekly Published. - -=ALL THE NUMBERS ARE ALWAYS IN PRINT.= - -=READ ONE AND YOU WILL READ THEM ALL.= - - -LATEST ISSUES: - - 281 Fred Fearnot’s Boy; or, Selling Tips on Shares. - 282 Fred Fearnot and the Girl Ranch Owner, And How She Held Her Own. - 283 Fred Fearnot’s Newsboy Friend; or, A Hero in Rags. - 284 Fred Fearnot in the Gold Fields; or, Exposing the Claim “Salters.” - 285 Fred Fearnot and the Office Boy; or, Bound to be the Boss. - 286 Fred Fearnot after the Moonshiners; or, The “Bad” Men of Kentucky. - 287 Fred Fearnot and the Little Drummer; or, The Boy who Feared Nobody. - 288 Fred Fearnot and the Broker’s Boy; or, Working the Stock Market. - 289 Fred Fearnot and the Boy Teamster; or, The Lad Who Bluffed Him. - 290 Fred Fearnot and the Magician, and How He Spoiled His Magic. - 291 Fred Fearnot’s Lone Hand; 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HOW TO DO SIXTY TRICKS WITH CARDS.--Embracing all of the latest -and most deceptive card tricks, with illustrations. By A. Anderson. - -No. 77. HOW TO DO FORTY TRICKS WITH CARDS.--Containing deceptive Card -Tricks as performed by leading conjurors and magicians. Arranged for -home amusement. Fully illustrated. - - -MAGIC. - -No. 2. HOW TO DO TRICKS.--The great book of magic and card tricks, -containing full instruction on all the leading card tricks of the day, -also the most popular magical illusions as performed by our leading -magicians; every boy should obtain a copy of this book, as it will both -amuse and instruct. - -No. 22. HOW TO DO SECOND SIGHT.--Heller’s second sight explained by his -former assistant, Fred Hunt, Jr. Explaining how the secret dialogues -were carried on between the magician and the boy on the stage; also -giving all the codes and signals. The only authentic explanation of -second sight. - -No. 43. 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