The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-02-14

lie sald he had only the amount of two
or three quarters salary in the lament
ed landslide. She saw the falling step.
ard that he did not like to have her
note 1t. lie was glad. though. of her
help at the bank. which was needed uor
oftener than ever. The toll began IN
tell on little Amy. She didn't lose her
beauty, though. don't believe she viii
ever lose that. My boy, am tedious?
Very. Go on"
Don't blow your smoke in my eyes,
then, or you'll swear I'm CRYING"
Well, well; forward
Where was /? This went on awhile,
the old man keeping the ship on the old
tack, close-hauled, flag at the peak, and
pumps a-going. But there came a day
when the world could do little for Abram
. WoodsOn, and he could do less for the
world. One morning. when Amy WAS
helping him on with his coat to 90 to
bank, he staggered and fell upon the
sofa. The doctor came and said Par
alysis.' He revived someWhat. but the
old General was a wreck of the Saddest
kind. He cOuldn t speak an intelligent
word. Amy became his hands, eyes and
mind. Roy Elwell was appointed act
ing cashier, for the directors would not
SlIpersede him at once. He fingered for
months with his faculties at skies and
sevens. One day he said something that
sounded like May tenth, and soon af
ter dropped anchor for the last time.
The bank officers. when examining
his cash and accounts. discovered a de
ficiency of betwetn one and two thou
sand dollars. And they who had held
the old General as mcorruptible said.
There is none true under the sun.
His bondsmen were called upon, and
the few, which finally means the many,
thought they knew the cashier had used
the funds III his keeping.
Amy, living secluded with her Old
domestic, Betty Floyd, was ignorant OF
the affair ut the bank. She knitted
"oIStCu "N-1-, nod fftrd laU drpSs-,
for her schoolmates of old days. Young
I Skinnem offered her what he called his
heart. BY Jove. twenty young fellows
would have come forward for her hand
hut there was something in her way
that wouldn't let man with decent
heart offer IL Skinnem thought lis
maEnmlimity twenty per cent. above
par He had inherited from his father
the mort gage OH the WoOdsOn home
stead, which he threatened to forecloSe
Troubles came in troops.
Looking over her fathers papers
one day, Amy discovered a note ad-
dressed to her. Il was in the neat hand
If the General. 1t told her that he
wrote this for her in case anything
should happen To hin-that the world,
after he WIS gone, might judge him
amisS. That lie had. it was true.
wrongtd her, his sweet. loving daurh-
ter: that he had been false to his trus-
teeslip; That their means were all gone
with the broken laEd-bubble: that lis
heart and thought were long sick with
. tire secret OF il; that May the tenth Of
such year lac had found his caSh un-
accuntably short. and 10 man yet knew
it. If he lived long enough he s'ouid
make it up-yeS. make it up, every cent:
but Amy must wait for hers; perhaps
he could never make that up, and if he
did not would his darling daughter for
give him:
Amy bowed beneath this blow.
Now appeared the reason Of the unpaid
bills and the ilI-supplicd household
And the thought came to the stricken
girl. how once she had proposed to sell
a share Of her bank stock and buy
gold watch and chain, and on New
Years morning she found them under
her breakfast cup, present from her
father. I get all this from sister Nell,
Of whom she made a cOntidant. YES.
Hal. Amy bowed as the lily bows when
blown upon. Size was lily without and
rock within. She sent for Roy Elwrll
She pressed Roy until she drew from
the reluctant fellow the affair 4, viewed
by the directors. 1t was a plain case to
,hem. \ land enterpriSe-an OPP .Ortu-
Iity for making money-and tie cashier
Welded to temptation. borrowed 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 dol
lars had gore the way of his. The fever
had been among them, too.
This point of view was not plain to
AMY. Through Elwell. who had been
made cashier after the death of the
! General. she obtained permission from
the officers to make a personal examina-
ton of the books. 10 be aided by Roy.
Her knowledge of bank routine was
now serviceable.
About this time l returned from an
/ India voyage. l served ds boy in the
bank awhile, you remember, and Roy,
with her consent, invited me To lend
them q hand. was glad for her sake,
F not to say my own.
Hal, are YOU yawning?"
''Spin away. spin away, Iny old boy"
J swell. we met and made our plans,
+ agreeing to make researches after FL
vel had finished his days work. BY
/ George. Hal, you ought II nave seen tins
+ girl. Her perceptions were al quicken