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Identifier: onfortunesroadst00payn (find matches)
Title: On fortune's road; stories of business
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Payne, Will, 1865-
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Publisher: Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co.
Contributing Library: Northern Illinois University
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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nner inwhich the fingers of those flourished, gesticulatinghands were held, that the market was turning. Now what does it mean ? Miss Thatcherasked. Five eighths, Arthur replied, half absorbed inthe market. He spread his fingers and made thesign for her. Thats less, then ? she asked doubtfully. Yes; its going ofF fast. He leaned over the edge of the railing, watch-ing the pit. Miss Thatcher watching him. That-cher s catching it hot and heavy, he was think-ing. How grotesque, her being up here ! But,thank God, nobody knows her; and she is here —beside me ! He looked around at her, smiling. The ten minutes which she had at first proposedhad grown to twenty. It was unexpectedly snug upthere in the gallery, beside the big sheltering pillar.They had the farther end quite to themselves.Dora had gone back to look into the street throughthe top of a broad window. The great trading-floorspread out below them, with its three shouting packs,its many rows of high little tables over which men 50
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/// the gallery A DAY IN WHEAT seemed more sanely busy, and its open space wheremen continually crossed and recrossed, gathering,gossiping, pointing, dispersing. Over the heads ofthat mob there was an odd air of seclusion. Thevery noise made a better place for them to be stillin. He explained some things, but the explanationsmostly went wide of her understanding. She pre-ferred to understand him. She asked a questionnow and then at random, and observed him, con-scious of her own little secret drama in which shewas assigning him a part, but not dreaming of thebig drama of the pit as it appeared to him, andin which, to him, she was the innocent figure. Heleaned forward, watching and listening. She knewit for a battle. It subtly charged her nerves withits electrical atmosphere. It was as though theyhad been together in a storm. Words, gestures,the ordinary means of approach, were not needed.There was fusion in the air. They drew near toeach other by insensible processes. You find it real

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