The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-09-01
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IL should ike to do that every day, for
year 70 COME" said Mr.. William Eyerette,
rubbing his hands together quickly 10 ire
pressible pleasure.
Mr.. Everett was a stock and money bro
ker, and had just made an operation by
which clear gain Of two thousand dollars
was secured. lie was alone 10 his Office;
or, so much alone as not 10 feel restrained by
the presence of another. And vet pair
Of dark. sad eyes, were fixed intenily upon
his self satisfied countenaBce,g with an ex-
preston, had he observedit, that would, at
least, have excited a moments wonder.-
The owner OF this>pair Of eyes was slen.
der, rather poorly dressed lad, in his thir-
teenth year, whom Mr. Everett had Engaged
short time previously y attend at his Of
fee and run upon erraads. He was the son
Of widowed mother, now in greatly reduc-
ed circumstances. His father had been n
early friend of Mr.. Everett. ltwas this
fact which led to the boys Introduction into
the brokers office.
"Two thousand dolIars!" The broker
had uttered his satisfaction; ;but now he com.
muned with himself silently. "Two thou
sand dollars! A nice little sum that for
single days work. I wonder what Mr..
Jenkins will say to morrow morning, when
he hears Of such an advance in these secur-
ities2
| From some cause, this mental reference
to Mr. Jenkins did not increase our friends
state Of exhilaralion. Most probably there
was something in the transaction, by which
he had gained SO handsome a sum of money,
that, in calmer moments, would not bear
too close srcutiny-sometbing that Mr.. Eg-
erett would hardly like to have blazoned
forth 10 the world. Be this as Il may,
more sober mood, in time succeeded, and
although the brooker was richer by two
thousand dollars than when he arose in the
morning. he was certainly no happier.
An hour afterwards business friend
\ came into the Office of Mr.. Everett, and
said:
"Have you heard about Cassen!"
"No, what Of llim!"
"He's said to be off for California with
twenty thousand dJllars in his pockets more
than justly belongs to him."
"What!''
"1'oo true, believe. His name is IN the
list of passengers who left New York in the
steamer yesterday"
"The scoundrelp' exclaimed Mr.. Everett,
who by this time was very considerably ex-
cited.
ale owes you, does bel" said the friend.
81 lent him three hundred dollars only day
before yesterday"
"a clear swindle."
/ "Yes, it is. O,ifI could only get my
hands on him.
Mr.. Eyerett's countenance, as he said
this, didnot wear a very amiablc express
sion.
I "Don't get excited about it," said the
other, 81 think he has let yon off quite reas-
onabIy, Was that sum all he asked TO bor-
rowl"
"Yes."
81 know two, at least, who are poorer by
a couple of thousand by bis absence.''
But Mr.. Everett was excited. For hall
an hour after the individual left, who had
commune lted this unpleasant piece of news
the broker walked the floor OF his Office with
compressed lips, a lowering brow, and mos'
; unhaI py feelings The two thousand dol.
lars gain in no way balanced,in his mind the
three hundred lost. The pleasure created
BY the one had not penetrated deep enough
to escape oblteration by the other.
/, OF all this, the boy with the dark, sal
: eyes had taken quick cognizance. And h'
| cumprehended all. Scarcely moment hat
) his glance been removed from the counten
, ance or form of Mr.. Everett, while the lat
! ter walked with uneasy steps the floor of hi
office.
AS the afternoon waned, the broker
0 mind grew calmer. The first excitemen
r produced by the loss, passed away; but
left sense of depression and disappoint
ment that had completely sbadowed hi
feelings. 81
Intent as had been the lads observation c
!. his employer during all this time, it is lii
i tie remarkable that Mr.. Everett had no
once been conscious of the fact tnat th
boys eyes were steadily upon him. In fac
; he had been as was usually the case, to
2, much absorbed in things concerning him
y self to notice what was peculiar to anothe
o unless the peculiarly were one readily use
:, to, his own advantage.
Y '.John," said Mr.. Everett, turning suddei
D y to the boy, and encountering his lars
"A earnest eyes, stake this note round TO M
lngrand,"
JO0D BpTdUG 10 40 MS uluuluSS lCSSb'
~ the note, and was off with unusual heetnes
Is But the door which closed upon his form d
~ not shut out the expression OF his sober fa'
es and humid glance from the vision OF NJ
e Everett. In fact, from some cause, tea
8 had sprung to the eyes of the musing be
ch at the very moment he was called upon
N, render service, and, quicker than usu
ne though his motions were, he had failed
! conceal them. .s.,; !.
" A new train Of thought now entered I
re brokers' mind. This child of his old frie
ng had been taken into his Office for a kind
ey charitable feeling-though ofYery low
TO tally. He paid him couple of dollar
'as week and thought little more about him,
no his widowed mother. He hadtwo many
81 portant interests Of his. own at stake,
fof have his mind turned aside for trifing N
q ter like this. But now, as the image of 4
mo sad face--for it was unusually sad at !
: a moment when Mr. Everett looked suddel
Ia towards the boy-lingered in his mi
~ lqrowiug every moment more, distinct |
a. more touchingly beautiful, many conside
an. , tions Of duty aud humanity were excited
~, ~ He remembered his old friend,and the pie
"a ant hours they had spent together, in ye
- long since passed, ere generous feelii
a. hardened into ice, or given place to an
a.. ...tperyadine selishness. He remembered
~ Etha bn.utif,,l oirl his friend had married,