158 WALL STREET AND THE WILDS 



Mail in that loan. Please send something else 

 or cancel the loan." 



Finally the day and the hour came when I 

 could struggle no longer. First to be consid- 

 ered were loans from my bank and I added the 

 securities in the safe to the collateral which it 

 already held. I told the president that my fail- 

 ure was assured and advised him to have orders 

 on the Exchange at its opening to sell the stock 

 he held at any obtainable price as the market de- 

 clined, believing that thus he could realize enough 

 to protect the bank's loans to me. But the proj- 

 ect failed, for the market was broken at the open- 

 ing by sales for an unknown party who was 

 afterward discovered to be the cashier of the 

 bank. 



