The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-11-10

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"Ilumph Isuppose you know you
have To be identified 7"
II had not thought of that; but /
can produce responsible parties who
know me. presume ] can find them
before banking hours are over" and
Granville reached his hand to recover
his check.
Not so fast, young man. This
check has been altered from a small
amount to the large one it now repre-
seuts."
Granville was becoming irritated by
the manner of the man, and rather
strongly burst forth:
"W ell, if it has? Mrs. Spencer al
tered il from $4,000 to $4,000, the
day she sailed"
"Ohl she did? And that's strange" j"
said the banker, slowly. ''For she
has. not dollarat her credit, over and
above the sum you first stated
$4,000"
Granville Dunbar fairly gasped.
"Why, Madame Spencer must have
known the amount she was able to
draw upon you for 7"
II should thinl; so, too. Well,
young man, your story may be cor
rect; but in our business we generally
take the benefit Of the doubt, and, un.
I'll Madame Spencer can be communi-
Gated with, we shall have to dctain
1 - IL st,,... - al st..t
Granville passed this night much
more sadly than the previous one.
Day after day passed on. The steam
er that bore Madame Claricc and her
daughter arrived safely at Sontliamp-
ton, and that lady found telegram
awaiting her at her banker in Lon
| don:
| What was amount Of check in favor
Of Granville Dunbar One presented
for $4,000, claimed 10 have been al
tered by yourself,
ABLE NogrHAM,
Prcs't Fifth National Bank.
And speedily across the Atlantic
flashed the reply:
Check 10 G. Dunbar for $1,000 -
never was altered by myself To lar
ger sum. CLAgIcE SrEScEE.
London, Eng.
And Granville Dunbar woke 20 the
horrible plot that, successfully carried
out. had ruined him, when he thought
his fortune WAS brightest.
The officers OF the bank, inccnscd
at what they called the uuhearl-oi
impudcnce of this swindicr, prosecut.
ed him for the offence charged, with
out delay. Claricc Spcnccr's deposi-
ton was sent from London, where
| Edith WAS overwhelmed with sorrow
and agony at this terrible act of her
lover, and within one short month oil
that fatal day, when the victimizcd
young man had accepted the bounty
of the deep schcmirg mother, Gran
vile Dunbar was tried, convicted and
| sentenced.
Who shall describe the agony oi
that one friend OF the convict-poor
Nelly: She had left her school nj
the first unhappy adventure Of her
loved brother, and rs the horrors oi
his situation gathered quickly about
him, she struggled with her own
sinking heart, and bent every faculty
TO cheer and support the poor, help
less, injured fellow.
Granville again and again detailed
TO her every word and act of that
morning, until it was if she had been
an actor in the fcS rful scene, where
the beautiful woman, with smiling
face, had schemed and accomplished
her brothers ruin. Utterly crushed
in mind and body, Granville lay yet
in the city prison, too i'll to be moved
And, as if 70 destroy the last CLEAN
of light his darkened life was ever to
know, one moring Nelly failed to
come. But at night the warden came
to him with a note from the poor girl
She begged him to hold body ant
soul together for just little time, fol
her sake-for Ediths. She had en-
listed the sympathy of prominen
official, who had promised her h
should not be moved from his pres
ent quarters for two months; unde
plea of his illness he should be de
tanned until she got back; where she
was going she wclld not say. Blu
again she passionately burst forth an'
begged him not to consign her t.
madness, by giving way to the troubl
!, that beset him. To wait patientl,
only two months. That was all sh
asked, and with this prayer Nelly wa
gone.
CHAPTER III.
If Clarice Spencer had, by her dan
ing plot, saved her daughter fror
what she considered an awful fate, tn
wretchcd mother now began to thin
it was only to consign her to grave
For after the first awful shock Edit
had tailed to rally, but laid languidl,
about her apartment, never smiling
and scarcely speaking her slight fig
ure growing more slender each day
, Madame Clarice saw with unspeaka
BILE terror the rings on the transpa
ent fingers becoming looser, the beau
tiful eyes large and restless.
No effort was spared to win th
suffering girl to health and cheerful
ness. But in answer to all her moth
er's entreaties, she would say. Moth
er, l cannot forget him. Unworth
as have proved him, love him ye
5 and | can no more forget him in hi
: sin and shame, than if he had bee
lost to me when | believed him a
! that was good and NOBLE"
r The doctor said time alone coul
, deaden the suffering she endured, an
( the guilty mother, with a sinkin
heart, asked herself if the girl coul,
last till time brought comfort with it