Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-02-19

Amy bowed bcBcats this blow. Now
appeared the reason Of the unpaid bills
and the III supplied hossehOld. Aud the
thought came to the stricken girl, how onee
she had proposed to sell share of her
bank stock aud buy gold watch and
chain, aud on New Years morning she
found them under her breakfast cup,
present from her father. | get all this
from sister Nell, Of whom she made con,
ident. Yes. Hal, Amy bowed as the lily
bows when blown upon. She was lily
without aud rock within. She sent for
Roy Elwcll. She pressed Roy until she
drew from the rccluctant fellow the affair
as viewed by the directors. 1t was u
plain case to them. A land enterprise
an opportunity for making money-nud
the cashier yielding to temptation, bor-
rowed the funds of the bank, thinking to
enrich himself, and return the money.
They were all the more ready to look on
the dark side for him, as many Of their
dollars had gone the way Of his. The
fever had been among them too
This point of view was not plain to
Amy. Through Elwcll, who had been
made cashier after the death of the gen.
eral, she obtained permission frcm the Of
ficcrs to make a personal examination Of
the books, to be uide% by Roy. Her knowl.
edge Of bank routine was seryiceable.
About this time ! returned from an
Iudia voyage. | served as a boy in the
bank awhile, you remember, and Roy with
her consent, invited me 10 lend them q
hand | was glad for her sake, not tc
say my own.
"Hal, are you yawning2"
spin away, spin away, my old boy"
"Wcll, we met and made our plans
agreeing to make researches after Elwel
had finished his days work. BY George
Hal, you ought to have seen the girl. He
perceptions were all quickened by pride
and love for the old man. The. theory y
the directors was not the theory OF tn,
daughter. She admitted nothing but III,
cylstance of an error that might yet be &c
vealed Roy and followed her with ley
assent. We began. We turned TO tha
May the 10Th, which he mentioned in tn
note and named ia the night of his speech
lcssuess. We took the Grst entry Of tn
, deposits; we analyzed it. Ii bills, it wa
, not so noted if checks. we followed thcr
to their final entry. And so through cac
; and all. Amy surprised us by her thor
4 oughness. Itens that Roy and | wer
f.. willing to check, as being correct beyon
: question, she looked to again and agai
4 before dismissing. The general had bee
( too much narrowed by the trouble to max
, any systematic analysis of thatday's tran
$ actions ut the time Who knows but Ii
error, if one, would have been detccte
!. had he called his qulcker-cyed daught'
e into his confidence?
t 1--WE finally arrived at the end of thi
: days labor, and summing up the figure
d we found the balance on hand was tN
thousand dollars less than the amount r
is ouired. Here now was chance for spe
y ulation. What became of the sum ? An
5. was not long IN deciding that its cvuiv
,s lent had been mislaid--s some check mi
e placed; but this was merely guess-wor
d "Hcr proposition, at the next meetin
rs was to search thoroughly the papers in Il
n safe. Not succeeding there. books al
papers in the vault were taken, one
D. one, and turned, loaf by leaf Thoroug
,e think so. 1t was a slow, laborious pr
d cess. Her patience was astonishing. ii
A. glance seemed as though 'twould burn t
f. papers it fell ou. But they could not |
y veal secret not in their keeping.
70 "Wberc was the waste paper put?
As basket. And emptled where? II
a conld'n say. The old weman who swe
D. the rooms was called, She cmptied
rr when full, into the dark closet Son
m times when out Of shaviugs she used q !
N tic of it to start the fire. Amy turn
e. palc. The search among the contents
the clcset was assigned for the next ds
ne Was it narrowed to this, the chance
to finding valuable paper in the rubbis
H. She would have had more heart, but
or the knowledge of those occasional har
IN fuls taken for kindling. Piece by pie
lit VIC went through this accumulated heap
uc dusty, gone-by papers, and without s.
II; cess. n3
p "Roy and had not ioresecn the G
he --iaiurc. We didn't anticipate hav
nd to see that noble girl sit down discon
Of late. with tears falling upon her tai
sr, hands. BY Jovc, | wouldn't have beg
1T, the work. 1t was joy for me to la
ng with her all the way. but when that la
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