Calumet "K" by Samuel Merwin;Henry Kitchell Webster
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"Guess not. Built for the same people, though, Page & Company." "They must be going in pretty heavy." "They are. There's a good deal of talk about it. Some of the boys up at the office say there's going to be fun with December wheat before they get through with it. It's been going up pretty steadily since the end of September--it was seventy-four and three-eighths Saturday in Minneapolis. It ain't got up quite so high down here yet, but the boys say there's going to be a lot of money in it for somebody." "Be a kind of a good thing to get in on, eh?" said Peterson, cautiously. "Maybe, for those that like to put money in wheat. I've got no money for that sort of thing myself." "Yes, of course," was Peterson's quick reply. "A fellow doesn't want to run them kind o' chances. I don't believe in it myself." "The fact's this,--and this is just between you and me, mind you; I don't know anything about it, it's only what I think,--somebody's buying a lot of December wheat, or the price wouldn't keep going up. And I've got a notion that, whoever he is, it's Page & Company that's selling it to him. That's just putting two and two together, you see. It's the real grain that the Pages handle, and if they sell to a man it means that they're going to make a mighty good try at unloading it on him and making him pay for it. That's all I know about it. I see the Pages selling--or what looks mighty like it--and I see them beginning to look around and talk on the quiet about crowding things a little on their new houses, and it just |
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