"A little flat, but then it is a dull season of the year." "Markets about the same, I suppose ?" Mr.Draconmeyer asked.
"I am afraid," Mr.Simpson confessed, "that I only study the city column from the point of view of what Herr Selingman has just called the political barometer.

Things were a little unsteady when I left.

Consols fell several points yesterday." Mr.Draconmeyer frowned.
"It is incomprehensible," he declared.

"A few months ago there was real danger, one is forced to believe, of a European war.

To-day the crisis is passed, yet the money-markets which bore up so well through the critical period seem now all the time on the point of collapse.