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One day I had ventured a little further
by way of experiment; and, in the sure expectation they
would continue to go down, sold several thousand
dollars of Pan-Handle Preference (I think it was). I
had no sooner made this venture than some fools in New
York began to bull the market; Pan-Handles rose like a
balloon; and in the inside of half an hour I saw my
position compromised. Blood will tell, as my father
said; and I stuck to it gallantly: all afternoon I
continued selling that infernal stock, all afternoon it
continued skying. I suppose I had come (a frail
cockle-shell) athwart the hawse of Jay Gould; and,
indeed, I think I remember that this vagary in the
market proved subsequently to be the first move in a
considerable deal. That evening, at least, the name of
H. Loudon Dodd held the first rank in our collegiate
gazette, and I and Billson (once more thrown upon the
world) were competing for the same clerkship. The
present object takes the present eye. My disaster, for
the moment, was the more conspicuous; and it was I that
got the situation.


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