The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-12-01

took from IL the twenty pound note.
But though the act was shameful, she
had no perception that she was doing
wrong, beyond the consciousness
of self will and disobediencc, which
did not trouble her much-which, on
the contrary, she had reasoned her.
self into considering the meritorous
exercise of better judgment .and a
nobler motive.
"Grantly change this for me-" she
said, giving him the note.
al cannot change it myself, Miss
Hope" he answered, "but / will get
it done for you in Canstow, l am go
ing there directly"
"Change it where you like" she an
swered carelcssly. 81 want the mon.
ey as soon as you can give il to me,
that is all and Grantley do you
hear2 if papa asks you, do not tell
him L gave you the note to get
changed"
Every well, l will not" said Grant
ley, who suspecting nothing odd in
her request, and who, indeed, felt
not little nattered that she should
have made n secret with him on any
matter. So, full of pleasant feelings,
he rode over to Canstow, where he
changed the note, and bought vari-
Gus things with the money, partly
for Hope according to her orders,
and partly for himself; not at Hope s
charge be 1t understood, the squarlng
of the accounts having to come after.
wards. And, among other things, lie
bought a certain camp apparatus for
himself at Tells, the ironmonger's,
for which he paid with the note in
question-that being the largest shop
and the largest purchase.
Now il so happened that Mr.. Rash.
leigh went to pay his bill at the same
ironmonger's to day. lie took a
check which he had just received in
the market place from one of his ten
ants who owed him half year s
rent for his farm, and to save him
self the trouble of going to the bank
banking hours indeed being ovei
--he gave it t. Tell, receiving the
surplus change, among which change
came his own twenty pound note
Passing 1t through his fingers, and
looking ut the number to take down
in his pocket book, he recognized il
rs that left in his desk in Newlands,
He knew the number and q certain
private mark which he always made
on his bank notes, thereby rendering
them doubly branded. And he knew
that no one could have obtained il
lawfully.
"where did you get this, Tell ,"h,
asked.
"Mr. Grantley, SIR" said Tell
"He changed it here not half an houl
ago, and ordered his patent CAM
APPARATUS" showing the young man:
purchase
"Mr. Grantley Watts ?" cried Johr
Rashleigh, flushing up; che changed
this note here ?"
"Yes sir; / hope no mistake, sir
nothing wrong p asked the iron
monger, little anxiously.
"No, nothing l was surprised,
that was all. No Tell, nothing
wrong"
But his face was more truthful thar
his lips; and Tell saw plainly tina,
something was very far wrong in
spite of bis denial, and that young
Grantlcy was in for it, whatever he
lie had been doing. He did not sus.
pcct anything very bad. Canstow
was by no means an imaculate place
and there were offences and offend
ers enough as times went; but it was
not to be supposed that young
gentleman like Mr.. Watts had stolen
bank note out of his cousins
drawer. Young gentlemen living in
grand houses do not do such things;
crime passes them by somehow; and
the police exercise their functions
very much in proportion to their
yearly income. The utmost the man
imagined was that Grantley had bro
ken into sum which Mr.. Rashleigh
had desired him to keep intact; and
then, it was well known that the mas
ter of the Newlands had q high tom
per Of his own, and lk' d to be obey.
ed, that was quite enough to put him
out, and to make his face grow white
and his thin lips pale. At all events,
wherever the fault lay, the lad was in
for it, thought Tell; not without n
kindly feeling of regret for the evil
hour at hand, for Grantlcy was q
general favorite at Canstow and most
people there wished him well.
Home came John RashleIgh in a
frame of mind more easily imagined
than described. Things had gone
Grossly with him for the last few
hours; and John Rashleigh was not
the man to bear with the crossness
of circumstances patiently. Hopes
extravaganza annoyed him ; partly
because some other Of his mon
ey matters had gone wrong at the
same time; and like most proud men,
the merest suspicion OF embarrass
ment CALLED him terribly; then he
was sorry at Grantley's leaving, and
vexed with himself for being sorry;
for what better could poor relation
do ? and if he had made himself use
full, so that he, John Rashlcigh, OF
Newlands, felt that he should be
quite lost without him, why that was
only the lads duty and what ought
to have been, and he was worse than
absurd to feel the least pain at his
going. Then the magistrates bust
ness had been worrying him to-day,
and he had been one of an opinion