Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-03-08
The Unexpected rest.

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James l found you and Mr.. Cooper
together this morning, and as entered
the Office knew my name was upon
Mr.. -Cooper's lips. Was it not SOP
The young book-keeper trembled, and
was silent.
Thomas Landrove and Albert Cooper
were partners and prOprietOrs of one of
the heaviest. wholesale and manufact-
uring establishments in the West, and
their business was Increasing day by
day. Landrove was a New Yorker by
birth, and Cooper came from New
Hampshire. James WOrehester was a
youth of nineteen, from Western Mas
sachusetts, and having gone out into a
new country with letter of recon-
mendatiOn TO LandrOYe from an old col
lege mate and chum of the latter, he
was employed, and thus far, during the
space of six months, had proved him
self worthy and well qualified. ,L
The partners, warm-hearted, butquick
and impulsiYe, had fallen into q misun-
derstanding. They had, on the previous
evening". almost come to blows, and
were now as unhappy as it was possib BILE
for two well-meaning men to be, who
had both been very foolish. Il
TT was, sir.' ~
And what did Mr.. Cooper say of me?
You need not be afraid to tell me.
James WoTchesIer became calm and
.seif-possessed, though a triflc paler than
usual. He knew that Mr.. LandrOve had
hired him, that to him he owed his sucs
cess rand that to him he must look for
the retaining of his situation. And yet
he resolved to be a man.
Mr.. LandroveI youmust excuse me-
.Alh! Did he place you under the ban
of secrecy? sga7 Fl .s.-s4 Ct .--' T f-sl eel
No SIR
Then, what did he say to you Of me?'
Z cannot tell you, sir
'Cannot2 You mean, will not?' or
AS you please sir a.f.Es s
While LandrOve was silent with
amazement at this department on the
part of the creature of his bounty, the
youth proceeded; 5 Cd
'Mr. Landrove, as God is my Judge, /
am your humble friend and most obedi-
ntseTvant, and if IhaVe love more
strong for one of my employers than the
other' that love is for you. But, sir,
even to please you, TcannOt do a mean
unmanly thing. Whatever Mr.. Cooper
may have said to me was said in conf
dence. 1 know that he would not like
thatI should repeat his words. I hold
been placed in my keeping.'
Mr.. Landroye swore a big oath and
again demanded to know what Mr..
Cooper had said of him. But WOrches-
ter was firm. Then the manufacturer
threatened his discharge.
i came to you with an honor untar
nished, SIR said James, 'and if / must
leave you, I wish to take the same price,
less possession ava When / have
once betrayed a trslst, can no more
have confidence even in myself.
Then you fatty refuses? .--
i refuse to betray the private speech
of Mr.. Cooper, as 1 would now refuse to
tell him, were he to ask me, what you
have now said tome. e- .e
Very well; you may now close up
your accounts and pass your books over
to Mr.. NiekeTsOT, for and here Mr..
Landrove, with a fierce oath, sWore that
the reticent youth should leave on the
morrow. a--.. -. -. ...-e, 4
Twill so, sir; but o.! why cannot / |
see you and your partner reeonciled be- |
fore I go? You love himg and I can
swear before heaven that no man lives !
whom he loves better than he loves |
your
: iLandrOve would listen to no more |
That very night these two very i'm !
pulsive men met, and their ill-wiu was |
blown to the wind as quick as it had |
been engendered. over a bottle ofwine |
LandroVe- told his Interview with young |
WOrchester. !
'Of one thing I can assure you, said /
Cooper, 'he loves you truly and devot- /
edly. l know it from the words which |
he spoke this morning, and from the 1
warm tears which crept out upon his 4
lashes as he gave them utterance, His /
refusal to repeat my words was from
principle s .-..-s. r-- f- +
'Ahn cried Landrove, and from I
principle very seldom found in this poor
world of ours. BY my life, Albert; he
will be worth his weight in gold to US!
We can trust him.
Mr.. Nickerson took James Worches-
ter's books, as LandrOve had threaten
ed, but it was only that the younger
book-keeper might be transferred into
the inner room, or sanctum, where he
was installed as eonhdentiahagent and
whence, in time, he
stepped forth into share Of the BUSH
ness. ,.r .-r-ff ....
This little sketch bares a deep and I
lesson for those who have eyes I
to see and ears to understand.