Invest it as he would in the worst securities that offered, the most rickety of stock, the most fraudulent bonds, back it came to him.

When he threw a handful away, back came two in its place.

And at every new coup the crowd applauded the incomparable daring, the unparalleled prescience of the Wizard.
Like the touch of Midas, his hand turned everything to gold.
"Mother," he repeated, "it's no use.

It's like this here Destiny, as the books call it." * * * * * The great fortune that Tomlinson, the Wizard of Finance, was trying his best to lose had come to him with wonderful suddenness.

As yet it was hardly six months old.