A deputation of the governors of the Stock Exchange, headed by President Symons of Amalgamated Products Company, called, to beg, to beseech, to pray Herkomer for information which he could not give them. They left, threatening to have his political head if the missing financiers were not produced, as Herkomer had promised Symons they should he, before the Exchange opened in the morning.
The Mayor, luckily, was on his vacation, and the governor was confined to his bed with the after-effects of an operation for appendicitis. Herkomer could not be removed out of hand, but— there was small comfort in that. There was only this much comfort: the newspapers, although they denounced Conybear and his associates for their absence at a time when strong men were needed in the market, did not give cre
