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mand for the shares that Stockwell had created, 

 Smith was worried because of his excess sales and 

 anxious lest some accident to me over night 

 should tie up the stock in the Trust Company, 

 leaving his firm and himself in the clutches of a 

 close corner. 



Stockwell was surprised at the extent of his 

 success in making a market for the stock and 

 chagrined that his share in the profits was not 

 larger. He had not been in Wall Street long 

 enough to become saturated with the virtue which 

 that street instills of living up to the letter and 

 spirit of every contract, whether written or oral. 

 He came to me early in the morning when the 

 shares were to be delivered and said that his share 

 ought to be larger and that if something was not 

 done he would withdraw from the contract and 

 let each one take care of himself. He added 

 that he would be satisfied if I would take his yacht 

 Julia off his hands at the price he paid for it, 

 thirty-five thousand dollars. The yacht, he said, 

 had once belonged to Tweed, to whom its cost had 

 been over a hundred thousand dollars and that 



