The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-11-24
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THE STONE vAUt,
A STRANGE EvESTFUL sTq

| have been with Morris &irinby
five aud thirty years come therst of
next month | WAS forty whe came
here. aud SOL have u habit being
exact about dates am withia few
weeks of seventy five; but as being
old, bless you, I'm younger o the
youngest clerk Tom Codgers, ', what
with late suppers and hard aking,
has n hand that shakes like se old
ledger leaves blowing in the vi by
the open window yonder.
Cold water. early hours, ananper
auce iu all things, keep a marilc his
life through II you don't bee that.
look ut me, lm an example, Yes,
I've seen chunges here. Them was
&c Morris. Grinby & Bloom, pen |
came, though young Bloom three
months after, aud young Cey was
taken into partnership. WI a fire.
here, too, anl the Offices been
rebuilt on a different plan h, yes |!
changes enough, sad an pAt; but
the straugest aud saddest' hll was
what happened to poor Be, ic.
All, dear me. 1t did seh I'D, very
hard, looking at it with M eyes,
and forgetting, as We ar1tEo, that
God does everything for h{t.
Perhaps you d mt R'fw this
house is built. It's b place,
although the front aud fcdre new,
and these great balus,les r. only
put up last year DoJbeloyou can
Judge how very old it II Sua cellar,
sir-such massive wal bad paved
with stones aud beg thceliar.
suiall stone gault, whf Coos who
laughs at serious this,saythc old
firm built to be bud in Ny own
opinion is, it was insd'd tconceaI
valuables, for i, had grnt fed door
: aud three locks. ea, istenl with
different key-that ~ lheyere ever
fastened at all. Tlfait w.disused
long before my te. w sir, |
, hadn't been here $ moi his iheu one
, day. or rather onevenlg, it was
nearly six-merclhs Il ft er hours
those day. had'casif tso down
into the cellar Ipre dndome' to
, give directions ,(hc pr tr out some
bales to be sent in th,lar|mo:uing
next day. i
: Mike and | \ up I hSorth end
of the cellar, VIE thebieTere. and
| was giving , my tff when, at
nv elbow, as ltemedl Cd au cd
J, sound, HI of Yekg cough
smothered in nomenI
l looked aSnd, lhtc nobody
there, not a ol undI psht, how
Il our ears dece US, to Z Tfand went
- on talking. tut, | gle lo'ny word.
|. | hadn't spd 9 three "1s len there
'' was that sua again lhfstartled
me.
,g mike, Did |, did suouh p
m "No, Z said Mikd th~gh,
8 :, your honi I'd,
~ ~ g" 1t M. be imagiuafeor sue
N sound fir, th. office overh, | sid,
but Jus, 10 ough-oughWe bob
heard it ,,.,
, "It's good, yer hororaid Nike
?, D. "Th,is some one hig in the
n. cellar, ,"hd l.
So Vi Mikes lantern, vent over
at the I'd stone paved p, looking
% behindoxes aud bales, aunder the
ai al steps, q up the cnal slid But not
a snuid We fnd, until.'sing the
dnor the vault. heard shis time
very ht aud strange, an.alled out
10 Nh
- I" ioever it is, is hid in this
vaul =
9th N with that we bot ned star
'gr. war and bolted into Griuby
,.r. r. ofi together The nlentleman
sry Gry senior--he don't ie To th'
@ i@eld off once year now, hes pas
his niS. Old Mr Grinby Just 10 K
,o.e ms j. desk, aud buttonI his over
',ns ,nls co lie stared at US rough HI
sue glesund calculated:
OF Bless me. llumphries the nous