Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-03-04
Has she not very pale face, aud cold gray

| h"s sHC hot sSi Poi0 iSSS, auu CoIu gray
eyey
! The partners stared.
| 'Ah! see it is SO !; and can al once tell
you that the bill is not worth rush.
| why, you don't mean-Y
q mean simply that the acceptance is, III
lay you wager, forgery
"A forgery!
"A forgery repeated as distinctly a. pos
sible.
Mr. Jones hastily, and with broken eiacu.
lalions, called for the cash-box. With trem.
bling hands he took out the bill, and follow
ed my finger with eager, watchful eyes, az
pointed out to him the proofs Of my asser-
tion.
A long pause was broken by my knocking
laugh; for at the moment, my sense of po-
lteness could not restrain my satisfaction at
the signal defeat which had attended the first
experiment of those highly respectable gem
| llemen in the science Of usury.
The partners did not have recourse to the
police. They did not propose consultation
with either Mr.. Forester or Mr.. Field but
they took certain steps, under my recommen-
dation; the result Of which was that at an
early day, IN aunt OF the Hon. Miss Shape
was driven, to save so near a connexion from
transportation, TO sell out some fourteen hun
Gred pounds of stock, and all the forgeries
were taken up.
One would have thought that the lady who
had thus so narrowly escaped, had enough /;
but forgery, like opium eating, is one of
those charming vices which is never aban-
doaed, when once adopted. The forger en-
joys not only the pleasure of obtaining mon
ey SO easily, but the triumph OF befooling
sharp men of the world. Dexterous pen
manshp is source of the same sort of pride
as TINT which anmates the skilful ri1eman,
the practsed duelist, or welI-trained billiard
player. With clean elliott he feches down
a capitalist, at three or six months, for cool
hundred or n round thousand just as Scrope
drops over stag at ten, or Gordon Cum
ming monstrous male elephant al hun
dred PAGES.
As before observed, my connexion espec.
tally lies among the mproviden,-among
those who will lie ruined who are being
ruined land who have been ruined. To the
last class belongs Francis Flsherlon, once
ciple; but rich in mother-wir-in fact far
ceur, after Paul de Rocks own heart. Hav-
ing in by-gone days been one of my willing
victims, lie occasionally finds pleasure and
profit in guiding others through the gate lie
fre1uented, as long as able TO pay the tolls
In truth he is what is called discount
agent
One day received a note from him, to say
that he would call on me at three o'clock the
next day, to introduce lady Of family, who
wanted bill done for one hundred pounds
So ordinary transaction merely needed a
memorandum in my diary, Tuesday, P. NJ
F. F. f100 BILL The hour came and passed
but no Frank, which was strauge-because
every one must have observed, that, however
dilatory people are in paying, they are won
derfully punclual when they expect TO receive
money.
Al five o'clock, in rushed my Jackall.--
His story, disentangled from oalhs and ejac.
ulations, amounted 10 this In answer 10
one of the advertisements he occasionally ad.
dresses To the embarrassed in the columns
of the Times he received note from u
lady, who said she was anxious to get a
bill done'-the acceptance of a well-known
man Of rank and fashion. correspondence
was opened, and an appointment made
AT the hour fixed, neatly shaved, brushed,
gloved, booted, the revival, in short, of iha;
high-bred Frank Fisherton, who was SO fa-
nous
"In his hot youth, when Crockford's the thing"
glowing with only one glass of brandy 'jusl
TO steady his nerves, lie met the lady at d
West-end pastry cooks
After few words Tor all the material
questions had been settled by correspondence
she stepped into her broughan, and invited
Frank to take a seat beside her. Elaied
with compliment of late years SO rare, he
commenced planning the orgies which were
to reward him for weeks OF enforced fasting
when the coachman, reverentiaIy touching
his hat, looked down from his seat for or
ders.
To SO George street, 81. Jamess,' criet
Fisherton, in his loutlest tone.
In an instant, the young lady's pale fac.
changed TO scarleI, and then 10 ghaslly green
In whisper, rising 10 a scream, she exclairn
ed, Good heavens you do not mean TO ha
mans house (meaning mel. Indeed canno
60 to him on any account; he is a most hor
rid man am told, and charges most exlrav
agantly.'
Madam, answered Frank, in great pertur
baton, i beg your pardon, but you have beer
grossly misinformed. l have known that ex
cellent man these twenty years, and have
paid him hundreds on hundreds; but never
SO much by ten per cent. as you offered me
for discounling your BILL
Sir, cannot have any thing to do will
your friend Then violently pulling the
check-string, STOP she gasped; and, .oil
you have the goodness to get out?
And so got oul,' continued Fisherton
and lost my time; and the heavy invest
ment made in getting myself up for the as
sipnation; new primrose gloves. and shil