When he was thirteen he got a job as door boy in a Wall Street bucket shop, and his widowed mother supposed he had begun a career in banking. What begins in a bucket shop is a career in pure gambling. Pretending to be a broker, the proprietor of a bucket shop is the same as a race-track bookmaker...
But the conditions of the struggle were dramatic and personal and the papers made big news of it. The consequences were beyond control. Henry M. Galt was publicly discovered. That of course was inevitable, then or later. He was already high above the horizon and rising fast. The astronomers were ...
“You seem surprised.” “Ain’t,” said Thaddeus. “Ain’t. Can’t tell when I’m surprised.” That was all he would say. Everybody who knew the past was astonished. It was supposed that the young man did not know what he was doing. A very old ci...