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Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott
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trading. With the scare that's on in the chipper crowd out there, I
look to pick up a thousand shares or so at about forty."

"Well, what's the program?" I asked cheerfully.

"Buy," he said briefly. "Take everything that's offered this side of
seventy-five."

"Um--there's a half-million wanted already to settle for what I bought
this morning."

The bushy brows drew down, but the King of the Street answered lightly:

"Your check is good for a million, my boy, as long as it goes to settle
for what you're ordered to buy." Then he added grimly: "I don't think
you'd find it worth much for anything else."

There was a knock at the door beyond, and he hastily rose.

"Be here after the two-thirty session," he said. And the Wolf, huge and
masterful, disappeared with a stealthy tread, and the door closed
softly behind him.

A million dollars! My check honored for unlimited amounts! Doddridge
Knapp trusting me with a great fortune! I was overwhelmed, intoxicated,
with the consciousness of power.

Yet this was the man who had brought death to Henry Wilton, and had
twice sought my life in the effort to wrest from me a packet of
information I did not have. This was the man whose face had gleamed
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