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 carried it along until it reached a very high point and looked like going off, and then we sold it. The profit was $65,000 and I paid that money, all of it, sixty-five bills of $1,000 each, to that man myself. Mr. Gould had ordered that transaction for that particular purpose. He took none of the profit himself, but directed that the man should have it all.

"There were many instances," continued Mr. Morosini, "of just that sort, and many in which he greatly helped men there in Wall street from going down—men whom he was under no obligation to help, but he assisted them under an impulse of generosity."

In regard to Mr. Gould's business methods, Mr. Morosini said: "Of course, he was very reserved. He never let the left hand know what the right hand did. His motto was never to say 'cat' until you had him in the bag. For instance, he asked me one day to call in about $8,000,000—which we had loaned out. I followed his instructions; the money was collected; he said nothing to anybody about why he had called it in. I kept the money for nearly a month, when one day he told me that I might loan it out again, as he had no more use for it; that he had intended it for use in buying the Reading road, but the deal had fallen through and therefore it might as well be drawing interest. That was the first I knew of what he had in contemplation when he called the money in. Then again, when he bought the Missouri Pacific, his negotiations with Commodore Garrison were carried on for three