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Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott
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me with a more composed and kindly expression.

"I never drink during business hours," he said with a trace of apology
in his tone. "It's bad for business, and for the drink, too. But this
is a little trouble I've had a touch of in the last two months. Just
remember, young man, that I expect you to do your drinking after
business is over--and not too much then. And now to business," said my
employer with decision. "Take down these orders."

The King of the Street was himself once more, and I marveled again at
the quickness and clearness of his directions. I was to buy one hundred
shares of this stock, sell five hundred of that stock, buy one thousand
of another in blocks of one hundred, and sell the same in a single
block at the last session.

"And the last thing you do," he continued, "buy every share of Omega
that is offered. There'll be a big block of it thrown on the market,
and more in the afternoon. Buy it, whatever the price. There's likely
to be a big slump. Don't bid for it--don't keep up the price, you
understand--but get it."

"If somebody else is snapping it up, do I understand that I'm not to
bid over them?"

"You're not to understand anything of the kind," he said, with a little
disgust in his tone. "You're to get the stock. You've bought and sold
enough to know how to do that. But don't start a boom for the price.
Let her go down. Sabe?"

I felt that there was deep water ahead.
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