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profit on each million sold and I had sold more 

 than that. But, alas, I had prudently covered 

 part of my short sales when the price broke ten 

 or fifteen per cent. Though I had made many 

 a fine turn as the market reeled back and forth 

 that day and my books at its close showed cash 

 assets that would put financial trouble behind me 

 for all time, yet a deadly fear held me in its grip. 

 For my chief sales had been to the Gould broker, 

 Speyers, and the Gould purpose to repudiate 

 these purchases was now apparent. The intent 

 to repudiate all purchases and enforce all sales, 

 was confirmed by the course of the swindlers on 

 the following day. The robbery had been delib- 

 erate and the Fisk- Gould brokers who had been 

 deputed to sell received instructions to make no 

 sales to Speyers but to sell to others without re- 

 gard to what Speyers was bidding. 



It is hard to get honest tools to do dishonest 

 work and it is doubtful if one of the men enlisted 

 by Gould to rob the public made an honest re- 

 turn. There are fortunes in fashionable circles 

 to-day which date back to the robbery of the rob- 



