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Five
hundred
at
three-fourths
,
"
would
come
the
reply
from
some
one
else
,
who
either
had
an
order
to
sell
the
stock
at
that
price
or
who
was
willing
to
sell
it
short
,
hoping
to
pick
up
enough
of
the
stock
at
a
lower
figure
later
to
fill
his
order
and
make
a
little
something
besides
.
If
the
supply
of
stock
at
that
figure
was
large
Rivers
would
probably
continue
to
bid
five-eighths
.
If
,
on
the
other
hand
,
he
noticed
an
increasing
demand
,
he
would
probably
pay
three-fourths
for
it
.
If
the
professional
traders
believed
Rivers
had
a
large
buying
order
,
they
would
probably
try
to
buy
the
stock
before
he
could
at
three-fourths
,
believing
they
could
sell
it
out
to
him
at
a
slightly
higher
price
.
The
professional
traders
were
,
of
course
,
keen
students
of
psychology
;
and
their
success
depended
on
their
ability
to
guess
whether
or
not
a
broker
representing
a
big
manipulator
,
like
Tighe
,
had
an
order
large
enough
to
affect
the
market
sufficiently
to
give
them
an
opportunity
to
"
get
in
and
out
,
"
as
they
termed
it
,
at
a
profit
before
he
had
completed
the
execution
of
his
order
.
They
were
like
hawks
watching
for
an
opportunity
to
snatch
their
prey
from
under
the
very
claws
of
their
opponents
.
Four
,
five
,
ten
,
fifteen
,
twenty
,
thirty
,
forty
,
fifty
,
and
sometimes
the
whole
company
would
attempt
to
take
advantage
of
the
given
rise
of
a
given
stock
by
either
selling
or
offering
to
buy
,
in
which
case
the
activity
and
the
noise
would
become
deafening
.
Given
groups
might
be
trading
in
different
things
;
but
the
large
majority
of
them
would
abandon
what
they
were
doing
in
order
to
take
advantage
of
a
speciality
.
The
eagerness
of
certain
young
brokers
or
clerks
to
discover
all
that
was
going
on
,
and
to
take
advantage
of
any
given
rise
or
fall
,
made
for
quick
physical
action
,
darting
to
and
fro
,
the
excited
elevation
of
explanatory
fingers
.
Distorted
faces
were
shoved
over
shoulders
or
under
arms
.
The
most
ridiculous
grimaces
were
purposely
or
unconsciously
indulged
in
.
At
times
there
were
situations
in
which
some
individual
was
fairly
smothered
with
arms
,
faces
,
shoulders
,
crowded
toward
him
when
he
manifested
any
intention
of
either
buying
or
selling
at
a
profitable
rate
.
At
first
it
seemed
quite
a
wonderful
thing
to
young
Cowperwood
--
the
very
physical
face
of
it
--
for
he
liked
human
presence
and
activity
;
but
a
little
later
the
sense
of
the
thing
as
a
picture
or
a
dramatic
situation
,
of
which
he
was
a
part
faded
,
and
he
came
down
to
a
clearer
sense
of
the
intricacies
of
the
problem
before
him
.
Buying
and
selling
stocks
,
as
he
soon
learned
,
was
an
art
,
a
subtlety
,
almost
a
psychic
emotion
.
Suspicion
,
intuition
,
feeling
--
these
were
the
things
to
be
"
long
"
on
.
Yet
in
time
he
also
asked
himself
,
who
was
it
who
made
the
real
money
--
the
stock-brokers
?
Not
at
all
.
Some
of
them
were
making
money
,
but
they
were
,
as
he
quickly
saw
,
like
a
lot
of
gulls
or
stormy
petrels
,
hanging
on
the
lee
of
the
wind
,
hungry
and
anxious
to
snap
up
any
unwary
fish
.
Back
of
them
were
other
men
,
men
with
shrewd
ideas
,
subtle
resources
.
Men
of
immense
means
whose
enterprise
and
holdings
these
stocks
represented
,
the
men
who
schemed
out
and
built
the
railroads
,
opened
the
mines
,
organized
trading
enterprises
,
and
built
up
immense
manufactories
.
They
might
use
brokers
or
other
agents
to
buy
and
sell
on
'
change
;
but
this
buying
and
selling
must
be
,
and
always
was
,
incidental
to
the
actual
fact
--
the
mine
,
the
railroad
,
the
wheat
crop
,
the
flour
mill
,
and
so
on
.
Anything
less
than
straight-out
sales
to
realize
quickly
on
assets
,
or
buying
to
hold
as
an
investment
,
was
gambling
pure
and
simple
,
and
these
men
were
gamblers
.
He
was
nothing
more
than
a
gambler
's
agent
.
It
was
not
troubling
him
any
just
at
this
moment
,
but
it
was
not
at
all
a
mystery
now
,
what
he
was
.
As
in
the
case
of
Waterman
&
Company
,
he
sized
up
these
men
shrewdly
,
judging
some
to
be
weak
,
some
foolish
,
some
clever
,
some
slow
,
but
in
the
main
all
small-minded
or
deficient
because
they
were
agents
,
tools
,
or
gamblers
.
A
man
,
a
real
man
,
must
never
be
an
agent
,
a
tool
,
or
a
gambler
--
acting
for
himself
or
for
others
--
he
must
employ
such
.
A
real
man
--
a
financier
--
was
never
a
tool
He
used
tools
.
He
created
.
He
led
.
Clearly
,
very
clearly
,
at
nineteen
,
twenty
,
and
twenty-one
years
of
age
,
he
saw
all
this
,
but
he
was
not
quite
ready
yet
to
do
anything
about
it
.
He
was
certain
,
however
,
that
his
day
would
come
.
In
the
meantime
,
his
interest
in
Mrs.
Semple
had
been
secretly
and
strangely
growing
.
When
he
received
an
invitation
to
call
at
the
Semple
home
,
he
accepted
with
a
great
deal
of
pleasure
.
Their
house
was
located
not
so
very
far
from
his
own
,
on
North
Front
Street
,
in
the
neighborhood
of
what
is
now
known
as
No.
956
.
It
had
,
in
summer
,
quite
a
wealth
of
green
leaves
and
vines
.
The
little
side
porch
which
ornamented
its
south
wall
commanded
a
charming
view
of
the
river
,
and
all
the
windows
and
doors
were
topped
with
lunettes
of
small-paned
glass
.
The
interior
of
the
house
was
not
as
pleasing
as
he
would
have
had
it
.
Artistic
impressiveness
,
as
to
the
furniture
at
least
,
was
wanting
,
although
it
was
new
and
good
.
The
pictures
were
--
well
,
simply
pictures
.
There
were
no
books
to
speak
of
--
the
Bible
,
a
few
current
novels
,
some
of
the
more
significant
histories
,
and
a
collection
of
antiquated
odds
and
ends
in
the
shape
of
books
inherited
from
relatives
.
The
china
was
good
--
of
a
delicate
pattern
.
The
carpets
and
wall-paper
were
too
high
in
key
.
So
it
went
.
Still
,
the
personality
of
Lillian
Semple
was
worth
something
,
for
she
was
really
pleasing
to
look
upon
,
making
a
picture
wherever
she
stood
or
sat
.
There
were
no
children
--
a
dispensation
of
sex
conditions
which
had
nothing
to
do
with
her
,
for
she
longed
to
have
them
.
She
was
without
any
notable
experience
in
social
life
,
except
such
as
had
come
to
the
Wiggin
family
,
of
which
she
was
a
member
--
relatives
and
a
few
neighborhood
friends
visiting
.
Lillian
Wiggin
,
that
was
her
maiden
name
--
had
two
brothers
and
one
sister
,
all
living
in
Philadelphia
and
all
married
at
this
time
.
They
thought
she
had
done
very
well
in
her
marriage
.
