Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-10-06
ASHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, OCT 6, 1866.

Willy lsettStf4 - w . = -.3 W.
accounted tor The fact is, he didn't
keep the best compady, and was himself
inclined to be fast. He may have gam
blcd n little, and 80 got himself involved.
don't know about it; but that is the
natural order, when young man begins
to step aside 'i ~ t.H'
al am panied to hear all this said Mr..
Lyon, with troubled air. '-,. l
:" am panied to speak Of it; but you
asked me about him, and what else could
say. Iwould not injure him for the
world -wouldn't put straw in his way.
! But facts arc facts, and speak for them
selves ..F .ar--....t
Now, Mr.. Ellis distinctly remembered
that at the time Byram's good name went
under a cloud, many persons expressed n
doubt of his detection inanythng toward
his employer; and it also came to his re-
mcmberance, that about n year afterward
/ this employer suffered severely from the
! abstraction of cldrk who had grown up
in the establishment, and been implicitly
trusted. But, though II was on his
tongue to speak Of this also to Mr.. Lyon,
n feeling Of dislike toward Byram kept
him silent. . 81.
The twomcn parted. Mr.. Ellis did
not feel altogether comfortable Was it
just, or mcrciful, to speak of By1am Ms he
had done? Might not the effect of what
he had said be an irreparable wrong !?
Such questions troubled him, and he
could not put them aside. lie would have
felt more Uncomfortable # he had known
that for the past year, Mr. Byram had
been in the employment OF Mr.. Lyon.
J" had rather hear the loss ola ship 9
i sad MIR. Lyon to himself, as he walked ON.
81 would have trusted Byram with m
counted gold, All ME! If man trips
once, who can have faith in him p After
a pause, he added, 81 wonder whist takes
him into this neighborhoQd2 2 rve met him
just about here three or four times in the
last few weeks ' '-
Suspicion was already beginning To
creep into his mind An Incident, to
which he had not before given second
thought, now had questionable look
must get down to the bottom of
this ne said, a certain hardness of feel
ing toward his clerk gaining a londgment
in his mind There is too much at stal. e.
Now Mr.. Lyon was rather a hasty
man and inclined to take things FOR grant
| ed beyond the simple records or facts
Ten minutes, after he reached Lis store,
Byram came in.
Too late, s:r--too late = he said TO the
clerk, speaking with even more hardness
tof tone than he lad designed
"Only a few minutes later than usual.
Mr.. Lyon replied the clerk @
q, 1, ,l,, T., I -
tco late Mr.. Lyon spoke in tcsty voice,
and turned from Byram.
The clerk was hurt by lis employers
rude manner and went to his desk with
a troubled air. Three months before, he
had been advanced TO a highly responsible
position, with an increase of salary.
"What docs this mean?' he asked him
aelt. "What hos come over Mr.. Lyon? 2
7 There wa1 coldness, constraint and
evident Suspicion toward his clerk, on
the part Of .Air, Lyon all that day. .
Byram was not only troubled, but an
noycd at this, Annoyance became irri-
tation. Such being the state Of mind
with employer and clerk, it only needed
some slight cause to produce rupture.
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