Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-03-27
from the Printers Gazette
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lConcludcd.1
There was something about the move.
ments of Mr. Carman for the rest of the
day, that troubled the young man. 1t
was plain to him that suspicion had been
aroused by that letter. o, how bitterly
did he repent, in the dread of discovery
and punt hment, the evil of which he
had been guilty! Exposure would dis
grace and ruiE him, and bow the head
of his widowed mother, even to the
grave.
"Y Oh are not well this EVENING" said
Mrs. Lewis, rs She looked at her sons
changed face across the table, and no
ticcd that he did not cat
My head aches"
Perhaps tea will make ii feel bet
ter.u
"Tll lie down on the sofa in the parlor
a short time,n
Mrs. Lewis followed him into the PAL
lor in a little while, and sitting down on
the sofa upon which he was lying,
placed her hand upon his head.
All, ii would take mere than the pres
sure of a mothers hand to ease the pain
from which he was suffering. The
touch of that hand increased the pain TO
agony.
"Do you feel bctter?" asked Mrs.
Cows. She had remained some time
with her hand uron his forehead.
"Not much," he replied, and rising as
he spoke; 81 think walk in the o1cn
will do me good"
Don't 90 out, James y said his moth
or, troubled feeling coming to her
| heart
"I'll ouly walk few squares,n and
James left the parlor and passed into
the street.
"There is something more than head
ache the matter with him." thought
Mrs. Lewis.
| For half an hour Jam walked with
out any purpose in his mind beyond the
escape from the presence of his mother.
AT last his walk brought him near Mr..
Carman's store, and in passing he saw q
! light within.
"What can this mean ?n he asked
| himself, a new fear creeping into his
| heart.
He listened at the do. aud windows,
but could hear no sound.
| 'I'hcre is something wrOng,n said he,
"what can it be? If this is discov cred g,
what will be the end of it ? Ruin ruin !!
| My poor mother ~
The wrctched young man fastened
on, walked the streets for two hours,
| Wllcil he IttuTllcu nome.
His mother met him when he entered
and asked if he felt better. lie said yes,
but in way that only increased the
trouble that she felt, and passed hastily
up to his room.
| In the morning The strangely altered
face of James as he met his mother at
| the breakfast table, struck alarm into
her heart.
He was silent, anG evaded all her
questions. While they sat at the table
the door-bell rang loudly. The sound
startled James, and he turned his head
to listen.
Who is ?' asked Mrs. Lewis
ga gentleman who wishes to see Mr..
James," replied the girl.
James arose and went into the hall,
shutting the door as he did so. Mrs.
Lewis anXiously awaited her sons
return. She heard him come back in
| few moments, but he did not enter the
dining room. Then he returned along
the hall to the street door, and she heard
| it shut.
Starting up she ran into the passage
but James was not there. He had gone
away with the person who had called
@Ah, that was a sad going away. Mr..
Carman had spent hall the night exam
lining the accounts of James, and had
discovered frauds of over Sc, 000 Blindly
indignant, he sent an officer to arrest
him early in the morning, and it was
with this officer that he went away, new
er to return.
"The young william shall lie in the
bed he has made for himself" eXclaim-
ed MI Carman, in his bitter indigna-
| ton, and he made the exposure COM
plete.
On the'trial he showed an eager desire
to have him convicted, and presented
such an army of evidence that the jury
could give no other verdict than guilty.
The poor mother was in court and aud
ible in the silence that followed, came
her convulsive sobs upon the air. The
presiding judge addressed the culprit,
and asked if he had anything to say why
the sentence of the law should not be
pronounced against him. All eyes were
turned upon the pale, agitated young
man, who rose with an effort and lean
ed against the railing by which he
stood, rs if needing the support.
"Will it please your honor,o he said,
40 direct my prosecutor to come little
nearer, so that / can look at him and
your hOnOrs at the same time ?"
Mr.. Carman was directed to come for
ward to where the boy stood.
James looked at him steadily for few
moments, and then he turned to the
judges.
What have to say, your honors, is
this,o he spoke calmly and distinctly,
"and it may in a degree eXtenuate MY
crime. | went into this mans store an
innocent boy, and if he had been an
honest man, | would not be before you
to-day q criminal"
Mr., Carman appealed to the Court for
projection against an allegation Of such
an outrageous character, but he was per.
emptorily ordered to be silent.
James went on in firm voice
"Only few weeks after l went into
his employment, l examined a bill by
his direction and discovered an error of
con "