Then Friday followed, a roaring, tottering, crashing, smashing fellow of the two days gone before.

Millionaires became beggars and beggars millionaires between breakfast and lunch.
As on Wednesday, so also on Thursday and Friday the stock which best sustained itself was Northern Consolidated.

And yet no other stock was so bitterly sold! As against this it should be added that no other was so bitterly bought! Every offer to sell was closed with at the very moment of its birth.
At last the end came; the old gray buccaneer could go no further.

He had already oversold his self-fixed limit, having parted with four hundred and eleven thousand shares.

The sales were made in the names of the various members of the pool, each selling one-eighth of the whole.
Senator Hanway's interest, as well as that of Mr.Harley, being fifty-one thousand three hundred and fifty shares for each, for reasons that do not require exhibition, was handled in the name of an agent.
Full one hundred and fifty thousand innocent shares, smoked into the open market as the old gray buccaneer had anticipated, were also sold, making the round total of five hundred and sixty-one thousand shares of Northern Consolidated offered and snapped up during those three days of fire.