"After three o'clock."
It was a little after three o'clock when Fred saw her come out of the bank. He went to meet her, and she said to him:
"Bryant is going to do the buying–begins to-morrow. You won't tell any one that I told you?"
"No; that would never do."
She lived over on the west side, and had a widowed mother and little brother to support. He walked nearly all the way home with her. Bob went uptown with Gertie Clayton, and did not see Fred again till the next morning.
"I am going to buy Pacific Mail, Bob," Fred said to him.
"Go ahead then–for Halsey & Company–the whole pile."
Pacific Mail was going that morning at 52. Fred went to Tabor and asked him to buy Pacific Mail on 10 per cent margin. Tabor gave a start, looked keenly at him for a moment, and then asked:
"Why do you buy that stock?"
"I heard a man tell another one it was safe to try it."