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Inside the bank that June h stools were bent over their ponderous ledgers, although it was severalwas in Atlanta's most central part on a narrow street paved with asphalt which sloped down frohfares to the section occupied by the old passenger depot, the railarehouses, and hotels of various grades Considerable noise, despite the closed s and doors, ca and clanged; stea; cabs, drays, and trucks rua corner and the shrill cries of newsboys selling thepapers

Jarvis Saunders, member of the firm of Mostyn, Saunders & Co, bankers and brokers, ca his straw hat up, he seated hiro porter had put in order

"I say, Wright"--he addressed the bald, stocky, ing his fat fingers and counting and labeling packages of currency--"what is this about Mostyn feeling badly?"

"So that's got out already?" Wright replied in surprise, as he approached and leaned on the rolling top of the desk "He cautioned us all not to mention it You knohat a queer, sensitive sort of man he is where his health or business is concerned"

"Oh, it is not public," Saunders replied "I happened to meet Dr Loyd on the corner He had just started to explain more fully when a patient stopped to speak to him, and so I didn't wait, as he said Mostyn was here"

"Yes, he's in his office now" Wright nodded toward the frosted glass door in the rear "He was lying on the lounge when I left hi serious The doctor says it is only due to loss of sleep and excessive mental strain, and that a feeeks' rest in solad it is not serious," Saunders said "I have seen him break down before He is too intense, too strenuous; whatever he does he does with every nerve in his body drawn as taut as a fiddle- string"

"It is his outside operations, his private deals," the teller went on, in a more confidential tone "Why, it h for the last week You know, I'etat half past seven He was as nervous as a ed He couldn't sit or stand still aWarner & Co I reuess if it had gone against him it would have ruined him"