CHAPTER XIII.
HOW THE SAN REVE GAVE STORRI WARNING Had you, at the time Richard visited that gentleman, written Mr.Bayard a letter, you would have addressed it to Mr.Robert Lance Bayard, and anyone who saw you do it would have gazed in wonder and respect to think you were upon terms of personal correspondence with that blinding meteor of speculation.

Mr.Bayard sat in his rooms at Thirty, Broad, like an astrologer in his tower cell; he considered the stars and cast the horoscopes of companies.

That done, he took profitable advantage of his prescience.
In the kingdom of stocks Mr.Bayard's position was unique.

He, like Napoleon, was without a model and without a shadow.

He constructed no corporations, shoved no companies from shore; he stood at the ticker and took his money off the tape.