Finally they turned their horses and rode away, driving my stock ahead of them.
Where the Burrows boys had driven my stock, I don't know.
But for the first two weeks after the earnings report came out, all the good news drove the company's stock to a new all-time high.
Subsequent reports that expanded the scope and duration of the accounting problems drove its stock still lower in July.
Expectations of a sale helped drive the company's stock up from about $58 a share to $77.75 at the close of trading on Wednesday.
The news drove Avis's stock up 20 percent on Tuesday, to over $30.
Investors sold on the news, driving Genentech's stock down $15.0625, to $157.75.
Wall Street drove its stock above $35 in 1996, but by 1998 it had fallen into single digits as the company remained profitless.
Occasionally the thieves drove their stolen stock into Brown's Hole for sale the following season.
You rebuild that house you burned, you drive his stock back.