The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-10-11
lFrom the Household JournalI
The Stolen Bank Notes.

o'Nt W aNy s"HNi'e1 luoli uSbiNC pdcSuAC
in the domestic annals of this country
with which happened to be very CONVEX
SAINT. The impression it produced on me,
at the time, was vivid and profound, aud
a couple of lines in a Liverpool journal,
the other day, curtly announcing the death
ofa Madame L LEstrange, recalled each in
cident as freshly to memory as if craven
there but yester lay, and, moreover, in
duced me to pen the following narrative,
in which, now that can do SO without
the risk Of giving pain or offence to any
one, | have given the whole affair, even
divested Of JcOlo'j0g, disguise or conceal.
ment:
M C.Ih~- pho hsj influence ritd The
late Lord Bcxley, then Mr. Vansittart,
procured me, three weeks after | came OF
age, Junior clerkship in one of the best
paid Of our government offices In the
same department were two young men,
my seniors by about six or seven years
only, Of the names of Martin Travers and
Edward Capel. had known them slight
ly before entered the office, inasmuch as
our families visited in the same society,
and We were very soon especially intimate
with each other.
They were, found, fast friends, though
differing greatly in character and temper
ament. liked Martin Travers much the
better Of the two. He was handsome,
we'll grown, frank spoken, generous young
man, and never have known a person SO
full Of buoyant life as he-of temper so
constantly gay and cheerful. Capel was
Of Hi~nn-ttt,n
with lines about the mouth indicative oi
IRON inflexibiity of nerve aud viii yet,
Withal. a hearty fellow enough. and ;iv-
ing, As it was suSpccted, quite up To hi>
income. il not something considerably
over.
I had not been more than about three
months in the office, when o marked
change was pcrceptbTe in both. GIadu-
ally they became cold, distant, and al last
utterly estranged from each other; and
It was suggested 10y several Of Us, that
Jealousy a. to who should succeed to the
chief clerk, Mr.. Rndwtil'S, snug salary OF
six hundred year might have produced
the evidently al feeling between them.
This might, | thought, have generated the
low ering cloul hourly dlrk,ning and
thickening upon Cnrel's brow, but could
scarcely account fer the cha,gc in Martin
TravcrS. H., whose contiguous gayety
used to render dizziness and i'll humnr i'm.
possible in his presence. was now iitiul,
moody, irraAeih.e: his daily tasks were
no longer gone through with the old
cheerful alacIity; and tinal!y--f,r he was
murhidly inpatient of being questioned -
| jumped at the conclusion, patty from
some haif-wordS dropped, and partly from
knowing where they both "r,a~i"haiig
. visited. the subtle Influence, whlca, from
cdayS at llr,eu Jnwuward>-aud. | sup
p"sr, uP~ardS--has pleased aud plagued
Inairkihd was Mt the hultnm of the matter.
| was quite right, ana proof was not long
waited for.
was walking early ore evening along
plrcadil!v with Ira>rr>--Ahp appeared,
by-tne by, 10 wish mc iurt!,c,, though he
Nas too polite To say So when We came
>uidenly upon Cap,l. ! caught his arm,
and insisted that he should take tuIn
with us as he used To do Thought that
lo>>ib,y quiet word or two on the beau-
ty and excellence of kindly brotherhood
among men might lead to better feeling
between them. was decidedly mistaken.
Ny ctinIt> in that line, a"kwariiy enough
uair. ! dare say, proved utterly abortivr.
CaIci, in iced. turned back, rather than,
a> supp"Sed, tuSsily persisted in going
on; but both he and lravrrs uodr on A.
>ttfiy as grcuadierS on parade. their cheeks
| flushed. their eyes alght With angry emo
| ton, and altogether sulen and savage as
bears.
What seemed odd, too, when TraverS
turned sharply round, within a short dis
/ tance of HvdepaTk corner, with a scarcely
disguised intention of shaking US off, Ca
pei whirlcd round aS quickly, as re>olute-
: " determined not TO be shaken of while
! |, considerably alarmed by the result Of
,he pacific overture had venturec upon,
did. of course, the same. We stalkcd on
in silence. ill just as We reached HOby'S,
and q Mr.. Hervey, with his daughter,
Constance, turned suddenly out Of ST.
James street. was fiery hot to the tirs
Of my ears in an instant. TraverS and
Capcl stopped abruptly, stared tiercely at
each other, aud barely recovered presence
of mind in sufficient time 10 lift their hats
in acknowledgement Of Mr. Hcrvey's brief
greeting and the lady's slight bow, as, az
ter pausing, they passed on.
It.was clear enough now. NV two gen.
tlemen had come to Piccadilly in the hope
of meeting with Constance HerVey, and
accompanying her home; frustrated in
this, they had determined not to lose sight
of each other; nor did they for three NOR
! tai hOu S, during which. anxiety lest their
rancorouS illhumor should break out into
open quarrel, kept me hanging about from
pillar to post with thcm-a sullen COM
F.; caniaasbin. SO 1,tsrlT wearisoJns that
. had several times half mind TO propose
that they should fight it out at once, or
toss up to see which should jump, for the
others benefit, into the Thames. AT
length ten o'clock struck, and, il appear
ing to be mutually concluded, that visit
to Kensington was no longer possible, a
sour expression Of relief escaped them,
and our agreeable party separated.
A very dangerous person, in such
crisis, was, l knew, Constance Hervey,
though by no means catch, in pecu-
mary line, for weil-connected young men,
with present salaries of three hundred
pounds year, and twice as much III near
expectancy. Her father, who had once
held his head pretty high in the CONNER
clal world, had not long since become
bankrupt, and they w're now living upon
an annuity of little more, | understood,
than hundred pounds, so secured to Mr..
Hervey that his creditors could not touch
it.
This consideration. however, is one that
weighs very little with men IN the condi
ton IF mind of Capel and Traver>, and |
felt that once enthralIed BY Constance
Hervey's singular beauty, escape, or re$ig
nation to disappointment, was very diiti'
cult and hard to bear. She was no favor,
ite of mine, by the-way. ] had first seen
her sbeat three years Previon>y-ana
even then, while yet the light the sim
plicity, the candor Of young girlhOod lin
| vpr,d oyer and SO(tened the rising graceS