Dunham turned the market for a half million on that! It appears the daughter telegraphed the first news of the accident to Ferris, at the old man's dying request.

And Ferris cunningly held it back, so that the Associated Press did not get it for a day.
Then came the panicky drop in our stock.

Dunham sold huge blocks short and filled later at the lowest notch, forty points below!" "I thought," slowly remarked Witherspoon, "that Ferris would perhaps try to blackmail the estate!" "So he did," drily answered Stillwell.

"He gets one hundred thousand dollars in clear settlement of all his claims for legal services for the past five years, as rendered to the Worthington Estate." "Oh! I see," bitterly remarked Witherspoon.

"Each side puts up a hundred thousand dollars as the price of his silence!" "And," curtly said Stillwell, "we now hold Dunham responsible that Ferris does not return to America for four years.