"I'll buy you 400 shares on a four-point stop."
"And when it goes up five points?" the doctor asked eagerly.
"I'll double your purchase and raise your stop, and every five points up I'll keep on until you are a millionaire!"
The old broker smiled contemptuously, but it was all lost on the doctor.
"Do it quick."
The order was scarcely given before it was executed. Dugro handed the memorandum to Woodman with a grunt.
"It don't take long to get 'em to-day!"
The words had scarcely left his lips when a hoarse cry rose from the crowd hanging over the ticker.
Copper had leaped upward a whole point between sales. A wild cheer swept the room. For ten minutes every stock on the list responded and began to climb.
The doctor's face was wreathed in smiles. Men began to talk and laugh and feel human for the first moment in two weeks.