Two tigers of finance, cool, calculating, merciless!
The jam about the pole grew worse. A screaming, pushing, mad mass of beings, insane with greed!
Some on top, some under, and all cursing, yelling, a writhing monster, all heads and hands, the like of which can nowhere else be found. Thirty was bid, then thirty-two, four, six, eight!
Then forty!
And then Page, calculating to a nicety, leaped in!
In an instant, almost, the price fell twenty points, for Simmons, quick to see his enemy's offer to sell, lost his nerve and offered blocks of ten and twenty thousand shares down, down at any price!
And the scared bears, as quick as he to see the tide had turned, joined the downward bidding.
But Page had sold!
Winn and Jess were saved!
The bubble had burst!