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A great financier, a power in Wall Street, fell in love with a society girl. Feeling sure that she would accept him, he proposed, but she had the bad taste to prefer a younger and poorer man, and the financier, filled with rage and chagrin...See moreA great financier, a power in Wall Street, fell in love with a society girl. Feeling sure that she would accept him, he proposed, but she had the bad taste to prefer a younger and poorer man, and the financier, filled with rage and chagrin, determined to be revenged. The girl's father was a broker in Wall Street, and it was at him that the financier struck. In the daily battles on the stock exchange the shares in which the broker was interested steadily sunk in value. The broker, on the verge of ruin, learned who his enemy was, and asked him to spare him. The financier laughed at him and said that he meant to ruin him. And he certainly would have kept his word if the successful suitor had not intervened. The young man told his future father-in-law not to worry, but on the following morning to lead a determined onslaught upon the financier's holdings, for the latter, he assured the worried broker, would not be on hand to lead his forces. By a clever ruse, the financier was decoyed away from his home, and he did not return to New York until the market had closed for the day. The silent ticker in his office told its own story. During his absence the girl's father had recouped all his losses, while the financier had lost heavily. Why the financier happened to be absent at such a critical time is one of the mysteries of Wall Street. A few venturesome people have asked this question of him, but all they received was a fierce glare and a snappish, "None of your business." The broker, too, is silent, hut when the matter is discussed in the presence of his son-in-law, a suspicious twinkle comes into the young man's eyes. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less