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the treasury and without commitments, I was 

 the victim of a reorganization of a moribund pool 

 that swallowed my hundred thousand dollars as 

 a frog gathers in a fly. When I read the other 

 day of the collapse of a second pool in a well- 

 known stock with the cold-blooded robbery of the 

 brokers employed, my heart stood still with the 

 feeling that some one was suffering as I suffered 

 through the Atlantic Mail pool. 



Too late I made inquiries and learned what I 

 should have sooner discovered. John S. Ken- 

 nedy told me that the pool had been conceived in 

 sin and born in iniquity and that he had barely 

 escaped being caught himself. He referred me 

 to a prominent merchant who told me that he 

 had already dealt in that stock through the same 

 manager, and thereupon he characterized the man 

 in language that wouldn't have been admitted to 

 the mails. I told my partner of my involve- 

 ments which would compel me to give all my 

 time to straightening them out and we arranged 

 to dissolve partnership. In the adjustment of 

 accounts there was a large sum coming to me for 



