"This is the worst I ever saw or heard of."
"My God! if Jadwin can only hold 'em.
"You bet he'll hold 'em."
"Hold nothing!—Oh! say my friend, it don't do you any good to crowd like that."
"It's the people behind: I'm not doing it. Say, do you know where they're at on the floor? The wheat, I mean, is it going up or down?"
"Up, they tell me. There was a rally; I don't know. How can we tell here? We—Hi! there they go again. Lord! that must have been a smash. I guess the Board of Trade won't forget this day in a hurry. Heavens, you can't hear yourself think!
"Glad I ain't down there in the Pit."
But, at last, a group of policemen appeared. By main strength they shouldered their way to the top of the stairs, and then began pushing the crowd back. At every instant they shouted:
"Move on now, clear the stairway. No seats left!"
But at this Page, who, by the rush of the crowd had been carried almost to the top of the stairs, managed to extricate an arm from the press, and hold Landry's card in the air. She even hazarded a little deception: