They will try for a stampede.

They look to drop Northern Consolidated twenty-five points, as woodmen fell a tree." "And what is to be our course ?" asked Richard.
"We shall buy every share of Northern Consolidated as fast as it is offered; go with them to the end.

They will find themselves in their own net.
"Since our first talk," Mr.Bayard continued, "I have been gathering information.

Of the one million shares which form the stock of Northern Consolidated, over six hundred thousand are held in England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, and even a bundle or two in Sweden.
I shall keep the cables warm to-morrow.

The day following, our agents will be quietly buying those European shares at private sale in London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Stockholm, wherever they are to be found.