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"What stock?" I asked him.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
But that only made him see red, for he shouted, "Consolidated Stove! What are you
doing to it?"
"Nothing! Absolutely nothing. What's wrong?" I said.
He stared at me fully five seconds before he exploded: "Look at the price! Look at it!"
He certainly was angry. So I got up and looked at the tape.
I said, "The price of it is now 31-1/4."
"Yeh! Thirty-one and a quarter, and I've got a raft of it."
"I know you have sixty thousand shares. You have had it a long time, because when you
originally bought your Gray Stove "
But he didn't let me finish. He said, "But I bought a lot more. Some of it cost me as high
as 40! And I've got it yet!"
He was glaring at me so hostilely that I said, "I didn't tell you to buy it."
"You didn't what?"
"I didn't tell you to load up with it."
"I didn't say you did. But you were going to put it up "
"Why was I?" I interrupted. He looked at me, unable to speak for anger. When he found
his voice again, he said, "You were going to put it up. You had the money to buy it."
"Yes. But I didn't buy a share," I told him.
That was the last straw.
"You didn't buy a share, and you had over four millions in cash to buy with? You didn't
buy any?"
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