Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-10-16

to fully $50, 900. I called him in th
room, and esked for an explanation
1.-THE worst thing you could hav
DONE" / interrupted.
"You are rigbt--be has escaped"
. IL expected as much. Wh:re ha
be gomez"
"He left last night by the Southern
train--at least 80 we suspect. He hal
an uncle living about fifteen miles from
Augusta, Georgia, and it is very likely
he has gone there. Now, Brampton
you must follow him."
"If you bad left the matter 10 my
hands, be should have been arrested
without any trouble"
81 acknowledge | sm in fault, and
am all the more anxious to have him
captured. Come. will pay yeu well.
Say you will 60"
1t was the middle of summer. deci.
dedly not the best time TO travel in
But the affair was imperative, and
was obliged to undertake the journey,
The same afternoon at s O'Clock / bad
started on my expedition.
Railway travelling in Julyl Who is
there that has experienced it, that does
not wildly remember its discomforts.-
The hot glaring sun. the dust. the in
tolersble thirst, and the warm water in
the coolers, and all evils of such mag
nitude, that they make an indelible inn
preston on the mind. Why, at the
very thought Of it at this moment. my
throat feels choked up. and feel the
prickiug of the flinty dust in my skin.
And then the view from the car win
dow; how bot and glsrihg everything
looks. The poor cows are painting in
the meadows; the dogs at the stations
appear to be on the verge Of hydropho-
bia; everybody and everything is lazy,
excepting the flies, and it appears to be
their particular province TO keep pas
sengers from doing. SO that they (the
passengers) may not lose any Of the
beauties of the scenery.
The longest journey must eventually
come to an end, and after three days
really hard work. I reached the pleasing
town of Augusta, in Georgia. l was.
however, in a very bad humor. l was
annoyed at the bankers want of
thought in allowing his dishonest clerk
to escape. Now. when a man is in
bad humor about a journey he is
obIigsd to take. be is very apt to con-
slider the town at which he is compelled
10 stay as the most odious place in the
world. 1 was no exception 10 this
general rule. l hated Augusta, I de-
tested it, abominated Il, 1-but can
not just now think Of any other word to
express my adherence TO that unof-
Tending Southern city. I went to the
best hotel in the place, and entered my
name in the most savage manner, actu-
ally blotting the book in the act. much
to the disgust Of a precise looking
clerk. who stood looking at me while ]
made the entry.
At last l partook of supper, and l
must confess after that genial meal ga
change came over the spirit of my
dream" After all. Augusta was not
such bad place. actually began TO
think that it possessed some fine streets
and elegant touses. A cup OF tea will
sometimes work a marvel. deter
mined l would go and explore the city
till bedtime, and make inquiry after the
absconding bank-robber.
The young mans fondness for flowers
seemed to be the greatest misfortune
that could befall him. Ibave mention
ed that single bud remained on the
rose-bush to bis hall. During my in
vestigations this bud had blossomed.--
When he absconded from New York
he took this flower with him. By
means of it I had no difficulty in tracing
him to Augusta. There was some
thing peculiar about the rose; il was g
large white one, and fortunately at
tracted the attention Of all the con-
ductors on the route. Ny business
was now to visit all the hotels In the
city, to see Il he had been there. The
very first one / entered settled the ques-
ton in my mind that Munsel had left
Augusta. and this, too, before / made
a single inquiry,
! entered the bar-room, and the FIRST
thing / noticed was faded Provence
rose on a chair. On the back of the
chair was a newspaper. / took it up,
and my eyes at once fell on paragraph
containing an account of the bank rob-
berry in New York; but l was imme-
diately struck with the fact that where
the person of the defaulter was de-
scribed the paper was mutilated, SEEM
ingly accidentally, but sufficiently so as
to mar the description. This paper was
the New York Herald, snd from ifs
date I knew it had only been delivered
in Augusta that morning. Iwalked up
to the bar and called for something TO
drink. While the bar-keeper was pre-
pairing It, said to him carelessly:
"There was young man here this
morning with very black hair and dark
eyes; he was Of medium height, but
stopped little"
81 suppose you saw him here" re-
piled the bar-keeper. "He did not
stay long. however, but left with Mr.. |
Theodore Munsel, Of Parkville."
"You know Mr.. Theodore Munsel,
then?"
"Yes, indeed"
"What sort OF man is hes"
ga very rough customer"