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"
Christ
,
"
he
replied
,
tugging
at
his
sleeves
,
"
I
never
saw
such
a
place
as
this
.
They
almost
tore
my
clothes
off
.
"
"
Buy
any
local
street-railways
?
"
"
About
five
thousand
shares
.
"
"
We
'd
better
go
down
to
Green
's
,
"
Frank
observed
,
referring
to
the
lobby
of
the
principal
hotel
.
"
We
're
not
through
yet
.
There
'll
be
more
trading
there
.
"
He
led
the
way
to
find
Wingate
and
his
brother
Joe
,
and
together
they
were
off
,
figuring
up
some
of
the
larger
phases
of
their
purchases
and
sales
as
they
went
.
And
,
as
he
predicted
,
the
excitement
did
not
end
with
the
coming
of
the
night
.
The
crowd
lingered
in
front
of
Jay
Cooke
&
Co.
'
s
on
Third
Street
and
in
front
of
other
institutions
,
waiting
apparently
for
some
development
which
would
be
favorable
to
them
.
For
the
initiated
the
center
of
debate
and
agitation
was
Green
's
Hotel
,
where
on
the
evening
of
the
eighteenth
the
lobby
and
corridors
were
crowded
with
bankers
,
brokers
,
and
speculators
.
The
stock
exchange
had
practically
adjourned
to
that
hotel
en
masse
.
What
of
the
morrow
?
Who
would
be
the
next
to
fail
?
From
whence
would
money
be
forthcoming
?
These
were
the
topics
from
each
mind
and
upon
each
tongue
.
From
New
York
was
coming
momentarily
more
news
of
disaster
.
Over
there
banks
and
trust
companies
were
falling
like
trees
in
a
hurricane
.
Cowperwood
in
his
perambulations
,
seeing
what
he
could
see
and
hearing
what
he
could
hear
,
reaching
understandings
which
were
against
the
rules
of
the
exchange
,
but
which
were
nevertheless
in
accord
with
what
every
other
person
was
doing
,
saw
about
him
men
known
to
him
as
agents
of
Mollenhauer
and
Simpson
,
and
congratulated
himself
that
he
would
have
something
to
collect
from
them
before
the
week
was
over
.
He
might
not
own
a
street-railway
,
but
he
would
have
the
means
to
.
He
learned
from
hearsay
,
and
information
which
had
been
received
from
New
York
and
elsewhere
,
that
things
were
as
bad
as
they
could
be
,
and
that
there
was
no
hope
for
those
who
expected
a
speedy
return
of
normal
conditions
.
No
thought
of
retiring
for
the
night
entered
until
the
last
man
was
gone
.
It
was
then
practically
morning
.
The
next
day
was
Friday
,
and
suggested
many
ominous
things
.
Would
it
be
another
Black
Friday
?
Cowperwood
was
at
his
office
before
the
street
was
fairly
awake
.
He
figured
out
his
program
for
the
day
to
a
nicety
,
feeling
strangely
different
from
the
way
he
had
felt
two
years
before
when
the
conditions
were
not
dissimilar
.
Yesterday
,
in
spite
of
the
sudden
onslaught
,
he
had
made
one
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
,
and
he
expected
to
make
as
much
,
if
not
more
,
to-day
.
There
was
no
telling
what
he
could
make
,
he
thought
,
if
he
could
only
keep
his
small
organization
in
perfect
trim
and
get
his
assistants
to
follow
his
orders
exactly
.
Ruin
for
others
began
early
with
the
suspension
of
Fisk
&
Hatch
,
Jay
Cooke
's
faithful
lieutenants
during
the
Civil
War
.
They
had
calls
upon
them
for
one
million
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
the
first
fifteen
minutes
after
opening
the
doors
,
and
at
once
closed
them
again
,
the
failure
being
ascribed
to
Collis
P.
Huntington
's
Central
Pacific
Railroad
and
the
Chesapeake
&
Ohio
.
There
was
a
long-continued
run
on
the
Fidelity
Trust
Company
.
News
of
these
facts
,
and
of
failures
in
New
York
posted
on
'
change
,
strengthened
the
cause
Cowperwood
was
so
much
interested
in
;
for
he
was
selling
as
high
as
he
could
and
buying
as
low
as
he
could
on
a
constantly
sinking
scale
.
By
twelve
o'clock
he
figured
with
his
assistants
that
he
had
cleared
one
hundred
thousand
dollars
;
and
by
three
o'clock
he
had
two
hundred
thousand
dollars
more
.
That
afternoon
between
three
and
seven
he
spent
adjusting
his
trades
,
and
between
seven
and
one
in
the
morning
,
without
anything
to
eat
,
in
gathering
as
much
additional
information
as
he
could
and
laying
his
plans
for
the
future
.
Saturday
morning
came
,
and
he
repeated
his
performance
of
the
day
before
,
following
it
up
with
adjustments
on
Sunday
and
heavy
trading
on
Monday
.
By
Monday
afternoon
at
three
o'clock
he
figured
that
,
all
losses
and
uncertainties
to
one
side
,
he
was
once
more
a
millionaire
,
and
that
now
his
future
lay
clear
and
straight
before
him
.
As
he
sat
at
his
desk
late
that
afternoon
in
his
office
looking
out
into
Third
Street
,
where
a
hurrying
of
brokers
,
messengers
,
and
anxious
depositors
still
maintained
,
he
had
the
feeling
that
so
far
as
Philadelphia
and
the
life
here
was
concerned
,
his
day
and
its
day
with
him
was
over
.
He
did
not
care
anything
about
the
brokerage
business
here
any
more
or
anywhere
.
Failures
such
as
this
,
and
disasters
such
as
the
Chicago
fire
,
that
had
overtaken
him
two
years
before
,
had
cured
him
of
all
love
of
the
stock
exchange
and
all
feeling
for
Philadelphia
.
He
had
been
very
unhappy
here
in
spite
of
all
his
previous
happiness
;
and
his
experience
as
a
convict
had
made
,
him
,
he
could
see
quite
plainly
,
unacceptable
to
the
element
with
whom
he
had
once
hoped
to
associate
.
There
was
nothing
else
to
do
,
now
that
he
had
reestablished
himself
as
a
Philadelphia
business
man
and
been
pardoned
for
an
offense
which
he
hoped
to
make
people
believe
he
had
never
committed
,
but
to
leave
Philadelphia
to
seek
a
new
world
.
