Business: Will-o'-the-Wisp

An hour before midnight three figures slipped into Pier 59, at the foot of W. 17th St., Manhattan. They went in by a side door. Within they were jerked upward by an elevator. Two of them went abroad the steamer Olympic. The third bade them farewell.

Next morning startled U. S. financiers scanned an item in their newspapers and speculated. Quite without warning to the public, J. P. Morgan and his London partner, Vivian Smith, had sailed for England, and Thomas W. Lament had sent them off.

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