I gave support in a jiffy.
There was no surcease.
Within ten days I was forced to throw all of a million dollars behind the market to hold it.
This didn't faze me. I was getting stock certificates for the money, and I believed they were worth the price.
But I was puzzled to determine what it was all about.
THE BEGINNING OF THE RAID
Soon it was reported to me that Senator Nixon was advising people at all points who held Sullivan stocks, or knew of anybody who held them, to unload. From San Francisco came word that a clique of brokers was operating for the decline.
On the following Monday the market on the San Francisco Stock Exchange opened strong and buoyant, and it looked for a moment as if the selling movement had collapsed. I felt relieved.
My 'phone bell rang. A stock broker of Tonopah called me on the long distance.
"Offer you 10,000 Lou Dillon at 48," he said. "Do you want them?"