NOW is the time to invest in a certain stock for ten points sure profit. Three points margin will carry it. Remember how correct we have been on other stocks. Take advantage of this move. IOWA MIDLAND. Big movement coming in this stock. It’s very near at hand. Am waiting daily for word. Will get it in time. Splendid opportunity to make big money. It costs only a 2–cent stamp to write to me. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. Private secretary of banker and stock operator of world-wide reputation, has valuable information. I don’t wish your money. Use your own broker. All I want is a share of what you will surely make if you follow my advice. WILL ADVANCE $40 PER SHARE. A fortune to be made in a railroad stock. Deal pending which will advance same $40 per share within three months. Am in position to keep informed as to developments and the operations of a pool. Parties who will carry for me 100 shares with a New York Stock Exchange house will receive the full benefit of information. Investment safe and sure. Highest references given. He prospered amazingly. Answers came to him from furniture dealers on Fourth Avenue and dairymen up the State and fruit growers in Delaware and factory workers in Massachusetts and electricians in New Jersey and coal miners in Pennsylvania and shop keepers and physicians and plumbers and undertakers in towns and cities near and far. Every morning Gilmartin telegraphed to scores of people—at their expense—to sell, and to scores of others to buy the same stocks. And he claimed his commissions from the winners. Little by little his savings grew; and with them grew his desire to speculate on his own account. It made him irritable, not to gamble. He met Freeman one day in one of his dissatisfied moods. Out of politeness he asked the young cynic the universal query of the Street: “What do you think of ‘em?” He meant stocks. “What difference does it make what _I_ think?” sneered Freeman, with proud humility. “I’m nobody.” But he looked as if he did not agree with himself. “What do you _know_?” pursued Gilmartin, mollifyingly. “I know enough to be long of Gotham Gas. I just bought a thousand shares at 180.” He really had bought a hundred only. “What on?” “On information. I got it straight from a director of the company. Look here, Gilmartin, I’m pledged to secrecy. But, for your own benefit, I’ll just tell you to buy all the Gas you possibly can carry. The deal is on. I know that certain papers were signed last night, and they are almost ready to spring it on the public. They haven’t got all the stock they want. When they get it, look out for fireworks.” Gilmartin did not perceive any resemblance between Freeman’s tips and his own. He said, hesitatingly, as though ashamed of his timidity: “The stock seems pretty high at 180.”