The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-02-22
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such men as one of the clerks in HantIey &
Warber's should be removed He told me It
was counterfeit, and added something that if
my father had heard. l don't know but he
would have killed him. knew the Publisher
would not send bad money f..
who is your father, young .ladyi' asked
the cashier, becoming very much interested.
Mr. Benjamip Lake. SIR ae
| BeDjamin-Ben Lake-was he ever clerk
in the Navy Department at W washingtonf' I,
Yes, sir, We removed from there replied
| Alice. Since then she hesitated-'he has
not been weIl-anj--We are somewhat redue
ed. o. why do / tell you these things. sits'
| - Ben = Lake - reduced; murmured the
cashier. the man who was the making of me7
Give me his number and street. my child
Your father was once the greatest. perhaps
the only friend I bad. have not forgotten
him. -Four Liberty street. will call this
evening. Meanwhile, let me have that bill
let me see, I'll lei you have anothor Come
to look, haven't fVe--hereis teu--we'li make
it all right e e ss Pr
That evening the inmates of comfortable
but shabby genteel house received the cashier
of M Bank. Mr. Lake, man of gray hair,
who. numbering but City years of his varied
life. arose from his arm chair, and much af.
fected at bis familiar face. The son os the
cashier accompanied him, and while the elders
talked together, Alice and the handsome yonng
man grew quite chatty.
= Yes, sir, ] have been unfortunate, in a low
confidential voice. : have just recovered, as
you see, from rheumatic fever, caused BY
undue exertion, and had IT not been for that
sweet girl of mine, | know not what should
have done. She, by giving lessons in music.
and French, has kept US thas far above want. >
Z You shall never know want, my friend
said the cashier. 1t was a kind Providence
tfat sent your daughter TO me- There is q
place at the bank just made vacant by the
death of a valued clerk, and it is at your dis
1posal; it is in my gift. and valued at twelve
hundred year -
Pen cannot describe the joy with which
this kind offer WAS accepted 55] 81 a5f4as T
On the following morning the cashier en-
tered the handsome store Of Huntley & War.
ner. and asked for the head clerk. He came,
all obseqnious- 91Ibs9j iR fi.iaia.'g tseS
4 SIR said the cashier is that bad notef'
\ tI-think not, sir replied the man, stam-
meFingly, ,-,., esq., ss,s ssyT ~
The cashier went to the door. From his
handsome carriage stepped young girl in
company with his daughter ifsa
Did you dare to tell this young lady, my
ward, sir, that the note was counturfeit? and
! furthermoresdid you so lose all sense of man.
: illness as to offer her an insulti' 1 -
He stood eonfounded. He could not deny
.E-he said nothing for himself. s-.3.4sf /
If your employers keep you, sir. they lose
y my custom. If they keep such as you in their
hitherto unblemished place of business they
will lose more than nv custom, said the cash.
!: ier. sternly. You deserve to be horse whip
4 ped sir, 80 a Hs7
As much as they conided in him, the firm
parted with their unworthy clerk on that very
day, and he left disgraced but rightly punish
ed 5za.85t,isF .-s,-.4
E Alice Lake became the daughter of the
good and generous cashier, and her family
never again knew want. So much for calling
e bill countesfeit. Fi-.