Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1857-12-18
Y cLARKsEILLE. TENN. FRIDAY. DECEMBER is. 1857,

and proceeded to leave the house by th
back stair, in order to get as quickly a
possible TO the vessel Little rocked he o
| the interruption which was to be present
ID to his departure. BE had got as ia,
as the foot Of the stair with his burden
when he was overtaken by waiter, who
declared that he was going to leave the
house clandestinely without settling ac
counts. 1t is proper to mention that Mr
Harvey had incurred the enmity of this
particular waiter in consequence of having
out of his slender resources, given him
too small a gratuity on the occasion Of
paying fraudulent design. In vain Mr.
Harvey demonstrated, saying he had paid
for everything. The waiter would not
believe his statement, and detained him
"till he should hear better about it,"
Let me go, fellow, / insist upon it, ~
said Mr.. Harvey, burning with indigna-
ton, ~ am already too late.' .1' ''l
"Not a step, till l ask master if accounts
are squared .s4
| AT this moment, while the alteration
was at the hottest, terrible ringing of
bells was heard, and above stairs was a
loud noise of voices, and of feet running
to and fro. A chambermaid came hur-
riedly down the stair, exclaiming thatsome
one had stolen gold watch from No. II,
and that nobody ought to leave the house
till it was found. The landlord also,
moved by the hurricane which had been
raised, made his appearance at the spot
where Harvey was interrupted in his exit
"What on earth is all this noise about
John2P inquired the landlord of the
waiter. s1a faref E
"Why, sir, / thought it rather strange
for any gentleman to leave the house by
the back way, carrying his own portman-
team, and so l was making little breeze
about it, fearing he had not paid his bill,
when all of sudden Sally rushes down
the stair and says as how No, II has miss
ed his gold watch, and that no one should
quit the hotel" pa- I
No. II, an old, dry looking military
gentleman, in particularly high passion,
now showed himself on the scene, utter
ing terrible threats of legal proceedings
against the house for the loss he had sus-
tanned
Harvey was stupiied and indignant, yet
he could hardly help smiling at the pother
What, said he, have to do with all this?
| have paid for everything; | am surely
entitled to go away if like. Remember,
that if lose my passage to Boston, you
shall answer for it,
Il very much regret OBTAINING you, sir,
replied the keeper of the hotel. but you
hear there has been robbery committed
within the last few minutes, and as it will
be proper to search every one in the house,
surely you, who are on the point of de-
parture, will have no objections to be.
searched first and then be at liberty to
goY gsul l5H =
There was something so perfectly reason
able in all this, that Harvey stepped into
an adjoining parlor, and threw open his
trunk for inspection, never doubling that
his innocence would be Immediately mani
fest. ,er -f"s. rh.
The waiter, whose mean rapacity had
been the cause of the detention, acted as
examiner He pulled one article after
another out of the trunk, and at length
held up the missing watch with a look of
triumph and scorn
who put that there?' sried Harry in
an agony of mind which can be better i'm
agined than described Who has done
me this grevous wrong2 know nothing
as to how the watch came into my trunk ,
No one answered this appeal, All
present stood for moment in gloomy
silence.
'Sir, said the landlord to Harvey on re-
covering from his surprise, Il am sorry for
you. For the sake of miserable trihe,
you have brought ruin and disgrace on
yourself This is matter which concerns
the honor of my house, and cannot stop
here, However much it is against my
feelings, you must go before magistrate
by all means, added No. II, with the
importance of an injured man. "A pretty
thing that ones watch is not safe in a
house like this ...
John, send Boots for constable said
the landlord.
Harvey sat with his head leaning on his
hand. A deadly cold perspiation trickled
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