The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-01-17
BURGLARI0ULY AND FEL0NI-
0USLY.

We had just locked up the safe, and
had put the key in my pocket am the
accountant of the North and South of
England Bank, Mt it's Pudsey Branch,
w. r. Yorks. had got my hat on, and
had taken up my umbrella, when man
came running into the bank with a bag
of money i'll his hand.
"Am / in time?" he cried | shook
my head.
Deuce take it I" he said, land I'm
off to Liverpoolt by the next train, and
then to America.
Sorry for it, / said; "but we can't
take the money!"
"Well, then, what is to be done
Here's twenty-five thousand pounds in
this bag, and those drafts of mine come
due in a couple of days. Well, y0uU
have to take EN- up" he said | can
unless you take the money in tonight"
/ knew that those drafts were coming
due, and that our manager was little
anxious about them, for they were rather
heavy. and the other names on them were
not very good. Black, too-that was the
man with the nancy bag-Black was
capital customer, and not only a good
customer himself, but he brought good
accounts with him, and we were young
branch and on our mettle.
Well, here was the money TO meet the
drafts anyhow, and | should have been
great fool to send it away because it was
after hours. So | counted ii all over !;
there was about nineteen thousand in
checks and notes, and three thousand in
gold.
"Come and have glass of beer with
me-" said Black, "on the way to the
station"
| put the bag of money in my desk,
and locked it up. / would come back
presently, and have it placed in the safe.
| walked to the station with Black we
had some beer together, and then he went
off Americawards, and | on the way to
Metropolitan Villas. You see, | was
rather in the habit of calling for glass
of beer as / went home, and then going
on I; and consequently, from the force of
habit, I'd almost got home before l re-
membered the bag of money It was
vexing, too, because we had tea-party
that night, the first since our marriage,
and it began at six o'clock, and I'd prom
ised TO be home IN hour earlier TO draw
the corks and help TO get things ready
And here it was six o'clock, and / had
TO 90 all the way back to the bank.
All the way back | went as hard as l
could pelt. However, the money was all
right i'll my desk, and now I'd put 1t IN
the safe. "Tell Mr.. Cousins our man
ager, you know said TO the servant
who'd let me in that | want the key of
the safe" But you had it in your pocket,
say you; which shows that you are not
acquainted with the rules and regulations
of the North and South of England Bank,
which say that the accountant or chief
cashier shall be responsible for the due
custody of the cash whilst it is in his pos
session in the daytime, and that at night
all moneys and securities shall be care
fully secured within the Office safe, which
shall be secured by two keys, one OF
which shall he in the custody OF the man.
ager, and the second in that OF the ac-
countant or cashier. But, you say again,
ms long "a YOU had one key, what dld you
want with two? There, | own, the regu-
lations are obscure. They. drawn
up by somebody without any literary
skill if they'd consulted me about EN-,
could have suggested good many I'M
provements. What they meant to say
was that the safe was TO be secured by
two locks, and that key OF each, not
interchangeable the one with the other,
was to be in the custody, etc. Now you
understand why l wanted Mr.. Cousins
key.