Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1906 . n as personal,and he reserved it until the timewhich he had foreseen from his firstinterview with Pitkins, when itmight be used vigorously and effec-tively in his own interests. The second discovery interested himmost now, however, for, with hisknowledge of the intimate and some-what embarrassing relations existingbetween Wallace R. A. Jones and theEagle Bank, he felt that it was onlya question of weeks before the bankfell into his hands. He knew some-thing of Wallace R. A. Jones. Mr. Jones was a type equally fa-miliar in Wall street, the uptown LANDON
Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1906 . n as personal,and he reserved it until the timewhich he had foreseen from his firstinterview with Pitkins, when itmight be used vigorously and effec-tively in his own interests. The second discovery interested himmost now, however, for, with hisknowledge of the intimate and some-what embarrassing relations existingbetween Wallace R. A. Jones and theEagle Bank, he felt that it was onlya question of weeks before the bankfell into his hands. He knew some-thing of Wallace R. A. Jones. Mr. Jones was a type equally fa-miliar in Wall street, the uptown LANDON AND THE EAGLE BANK 83 clubs and Newport. He had all theear-marks of wealth : a town house,a sumptuous yacht, on which he en-tertained royally during internationalraces, and a place at Newport. Hewas a director in a dozen corpora- month he was compelled to hustle, inall the distasteful meaning of thathumble word, to meet the rent andother bills run up in sustaining awell-nigh untenable position. Mostly,as Landons investigation disclosed,. Whats the news in Wall Street, Mr. Landon? tions, three of them, perhaps, sound,the rest of a fugitive character towhich he had loaned his name for alarge stock bonus. As a matter of pure fact, was on a par with thehumblest flat dweller in that each Mr. Jones had hastened to the EagleBank and there induced its misguid-ed, or worse, president to accept thestock of the nine wayward companiesto which he had added the lustre ofhis name, as collateral for loans ofreal money. 84 THE BUSY MANS MAGAZINE Landon had had inklings of the ut-ter hollowness of Mr. Jones, it beinga part of his days work to keep therun of frauds ; but the depths re-vealed in the story of the banks as-sistant note teller, from whom hegleaned all this, surprised even him,which didnt prevent him from hand-somely subsidizing the worthy as-sistant note teller, who had theusual large family and sick wife. The following afternoon there wascloseted with Landon the senior part
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