The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-02-26

bank and you haven't got blinds, but a
wire netting over the windows, and any
and silver.
g That's true" I said.
Yes, see" said the superintend
ent, s. just as Joe saw it. He follows you
up from here to yonder, and he sees you
| put your money in your coat pocket,
and then he follows you home, and when
! ali's quiet, he cracks the crib. Oh, it's
ali a nutshell and that's how prop
erty goes. And then you come to the
/ police"
"But, if you know it's Joe, why
| don't you send after him and catch,hims?'
Oh, we know cur own business, sir
/ you leave it all to us we shall have Joe
tight enough, if not for this job, any
how for the next. Well give him bit
of rope, like"
couldn't put any fire into the ran,
! do what could he was civil, that is
for Yorkshireman impassive he'd
| do what was right I'd given the infor-
nation very we'll, all the rest was his
| business.
So I came home miserable, despair
ing. It was just daylight by this time,
and as I opened the shutters, the
| debris of oIIr feast was revealed; the
| lees of the lobster salad, the picked
| bones of the chickens, the melted re-
| siduum of She iellfes, while about every
| thing hung the faint smell of sour wine.
l sat down amid all this wretched mess,
and leaned my head on my arms In
| dull, miserable lethargy. Then ]
| sprang up, and as I did so I caught
| sight of myself in the looking-glass.
4 IL II.
| hang-dog fellow myself? Did a few
hours misery change man like this
| Why, I was q very felon in appearance
| and SO Z should be thought 70 be.
| Who would believe this story of rob-
] berry? Why, the police didn't believe
in it, else they'd have taken a different
| tone. No ; / should be looked upon as
| thief by all the world.
Then my wife came down stairs, and
! with few touches, restored little or,
der and sanity, both to outward matters
and my mind. She brought me some
| eoffee and an egg and some bread and
butter, and after I had eaten and
| drank, I didn't feel quite so bad.
Jack, she said, ''you must go to
London at once, and see the directors.
Have the first word, and tell them all
about it-all the particulars. It was
] OUAf u llbbLG Dlb VI ChIGlE2o16ooa dlbCI
| all, and perhaps they'll look over it.
" Yes, that's all very WE'LL" said.
''But how am to get there? I've got
no money. This wretched party has
! cleared us right out.
g Borrow some of Cousins.
' He asked me to lend him a sover-
eign last night, and couldn't"
Now you'll say " Here's a man with
out resource. Why didn't he pawn his
watch ?" To tell you the truth, that's
what I did the week before. and the
money was all gone. Then under
these.ci rcamstances, you'll add, sit was
immoral 30 give party" But you'll
bear in mind, the invitations had been
out for Il fortnight, and then we were in
funds.
"Well, Jack, said my wife, "you
must get the man-the p. B.-tO give
you some more money on the watch.
Sell him it right out. It must be worth
at least ten pounds, for it cost thirty,
and you've only had five upon it. Sell
the ticket.
Yes F.; but where was the ticket Why,
in the little cash pocket of my brown
greatcoat. Still, I had heard, that if
you'd lost ticket, you could make the
man give another; and Brooks. the
pawn-broker, was respectable fellow
who, perhaps, would help me out of my
difficulty. I went to him, anyhow, on
my way to the station. I felt like a
ticket of-Ieave man as I went into his
shop, but put a good face upon it.
Brooks" 1 said, "that watch-you
know the ticket-it's stolen.
Brooks gave a most portentous wink.
He was a slcw-speeched man, with a
red face, and tremendous corporation.
Nay" he says, my lad, thou'rt
wrong there.
ing up furiously. Every one suspected
me, it seemed.
g Whoi, it, might be stolen once, but
it arn't now ave got it here. This is
how it were. A cadging sort o chap
comes in, and he says: Master,
what'n you give me for this here tick
ct p Now, you know the hact don't
allow us to give nought in that kind of
way, but I says to the chap: Let's
have a look at it 4 and then saw it
was yours, and said to the man My
| lad, you aren't come honest by this. ,"
" And you gave him into custody
/ he's in prison? Old Brooks, what a
capital fellow you are -
'Nay," he said sI know'd better
nor that. Do you think I'd hexpose a
customer L know you gents QOn
| care about these little matters abroad
| and so I slaps my fist on the counter,
| and I says Hook it Just like that.
| And away ne went like a lsmp-lighter. !"
| I sank down on the counter, overpow-
| cred with emotion.
" And what's more, went on Brooks,
che never took up the money I'd tent
| him for the coat %
what coat ?" I cried.
Z" A very nice brown coat he put up
with me. About fit you, I should think.
See, here it is.
It was my identical brown greatcoat,
/ wrapped up In a bundle, and tied round
! with my own handkerchief. I made a
dart at it, opened it, plunged my hand
into the breast pOcket-there was
the money, there was the twenty-five
thousand pounds.
How did I get to the bank that morn
| ing, on legs or wings? And how did
get home, as soon as had put the money
safe away? Mary knew by my face il
was all right and didn't we have 8
| dance of Joy all round the house.
My burglar had been only a sort oi
sneak after all, who had got in at an
open window aud bolted with the spoils
| OF the hall but If he had taken tho
pains to look into the pockets of tbs
coat, he'd have been a rich-thougE
perhaps a miserable and inseoUre-man
and I should have been utterly and
deservediy ruined.
Inflammation of the Eyes.