The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1865-11-24

gone. and the outer doors had been closed
! called Georgs into nv counting-room,
and once more asked him concerning tha,
letter ard that money. He paled and
tremb|ed and declared that he knew moth
ing of it. | told him how l had seen The
very letter, and had left it upon the desk
with other etters. The other letters were
all accounted for but not that one. told
him that be bad been spending consid-
cradle money of late. lie started as tho
had struck him.
"Mr. Lawson, lie said, his whole frame
quverlng with excitement, "what money
have used was honestly mine"
Il asked him where he obtained it.
Never mind" he quickly answered.
And then be Lforme1 me that he would
answer DO questions outside Of the store
while such charge was resting upon him
He declared that he had served me truly
and faithfully; and he wondered how I
could accuse hin of such a hing.
remember that l gave him stern
answer, and be in return, vindicated hlm-
self u a manner that offended me- be-
came impatient, and demanded that he
shoula make restitution. 10 the end I
informed him that needed his services
no longer; and I told him that out Of con-
sdera,ion for the feelings of his mother
and sister, I should not bring him TO JUS
tice. In short I turned him from my
employ. IranLot tell you all that be SAID
TO me. With one breath be would plead
innocence in tears and with another breath
he would denounce me in bIt,erest terms
for my treatment of him
Mrs Sayeys came to me 10 plead for
her boy. I explained to her the e-idence
l had Of bis dishonesty, and though she
could not believe her son guilty, still she
could not tighten the weight Of testimony
against him.
/ engaged a rev clerk, and put the
missing five hundred dollars down to
profit and loss George Sayers could
be innocent But I could not see it NV
new clerk was not worth half as much for
business as George had been.
"Of course I could not to ignorant Of
the movement of young George Saysrs
after he left my store At the end of a
month he found employment 10 a distant
town. The story Of bis disgrace finally
followed him, aud be was &c! a grd
| lie came home aud tried 10 work on a
farm; but his health filled BIN, and was
sick nearly all the following Winter. In
the Spring his mother came to me and
asked me if l cod,d not help her boy.
| She said he was entirely broken down IN
spirit and she feared that some worse fate
might befalI hin. But I would not pu,
forth my hand un1i George would ac-
knowledge bis error. Tie widow turned
from me Ea1 and mournful. But what
could [ dos / bad taken my stand and
1 would not depart from i.
In the month Of \ av, I made up nv
mind that / would take a partner Nj,
bro,her-n law was anxious to come in,
and partial atIargcments were made to
that effect. tCck an account Of all m,
took; and then went into my counting
| room 10 overhaul my private papers. In
the pigeon holes Of my cabinet we're letters
which bad been accommodating for two or
three years, t thought it about tlue to
destroy those " hiuh were of no u>e: and
! Wv " S"'' = 4 0''' N'Nh W. thc wa n -
! ~" oN cane across some oid letters
'!o'' d h!tho N oonth t"onha 'ne OF
! these / RECOGNIZED by the surerscfiI.,i.u:
and a. 1 '"'k II Hla.t rom - l't'""-.
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per IL SEPARATING ''e'n. AS nus second
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"'Osop' oi't"e" II an" '"u"u s"'het",' (
more l 'ouun I'VE huhuItd h"I'arS-h\e
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,s' oo'e Tue posi- "'ai h OF ,,'e 'e''e' "h''n
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mao oeen fece''ea at our oiil'e Vie same
''y'
~ hi' was thrnder-'rn1k ana
,'e" 'o.'oWtd season o1 or"l1e'nehi'
pn' sFao""i'y .he 11@h' b'oke III upon ne.
IN a h''ie "h''e was apIe 10 read the
"'o'e S'"fv, remembered 'ha' alter
noon wien came u!' ioth III! mus "h"
| ,oohd 'he "'ich OF .el!efs upon me eek
remembered DO" hao IeuHd TWO pr
wave iet'ers, ana .hat Ills iebeT nom my
fLlend II South CaFohna was one CT them
also remembered that tbs letter from
my ageh, had opened. Furthermore
| L remembered that on that DCr aRl0n 1 had