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

We had just locked up the safe, and I
bad put the key in my pocket am
the accountant of the North and South
of England bank at its Padsey branch.
w. r. Yorks-I had got my hat on and
had taken up my umbrella, when n man
came running into the bank with bag
of money in his hand.
"Am 1 in time ?" he said. shook nv
head.
"Deuce take it " he said, "a and Tn
off to Liverpool by the next train, and
| then to America. {"
Sorry for it, I said 'but we can't
take the money"
Well, then, what is to be done ?
Here's twenty-thousand pounds in this
| bag, and those drafts of mine come due
in couple Of days. Well, you'll have
to take them up, ne said :" I can't, un-
less you take the money in to night"
1 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 mon y-bag)-
Black was capital customer aud not
/ only good customer himself, but he
brought good accounts with him, and
we were a young branch and on our met
! tie.
Well, here was the money to meet
| the drafts, anyhow, and should be a
! great fool to send it away Just because
it was after hours. So I counted it all
over; there was about ninteen thousand
in notes and checks, and three thousand
in gold.
"Colne and have a glass of beer with
me" said Black, "on the way to the
station"
I put the bag of money in my desk,
and locked 1t up. L 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 Americaward, and I on the
way to Nomophillar Villa. You see, I
was rather in the habit of calling for a
/ glass of beer as l went home, and then
| going on and, consequently, from the
! force of habit, I'd almost got home be-
fore 1 remembered the bag of money.
1t was vexing, too, because we had a tea
party that night, the first since our mar
riage, and it began at six o'clock, and
I'd promised to be at home at an hour
earlier, to draw the corks and help to
get things ready. Aud here it was six
O'Clock, and I had to go all the way back
to the bank.
All the way back went as hard as /
could pelt. However, the money was
all right in my desk, and now I'd put it
in the safe. ''Tell Mr.. Cousins our
manager, you know said to the ser
want 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 re-
sponsible for the due custody of the
cash while it is in his possession in the
daytime, and that at night all moneys
and securities shall be carefully secured
by two keys, one of which shall be III
custody of the manager, and the second
in that of the accountant or cashier.
Bat, you say again, as you had one key,
| what did you want with two? There, 1
own, the regulations are obscure. They
were drawn mp by somebody without
any literary skill if they'd consulted
me about 'em, could have suggested a
| good many improvements. 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 wanted
Mr.. Cousins key.
''Eh, my " said the servant, opening
her mouth wide, "and what might you
want Mr.. Cousins key for ="
Just as stupid as you, you see. l
was mad with the girl. 1 own l always
get out of temper with those Yorkshire
people. If you ask 'em the simplest
/ question, first they open their mouths
| and think for a bit. Then the idea
seems to reach the thing that does duty
with 'em for brains, and excites a sort
| of reflex action, for, by jingol instead
| of answering your question, they go
| and ask you one. And that makes me
so mad Oh, they're a very dense race,
those Yorkshire people.
"Why, to open the safe, you stupid,
said I. "Where is he ?"
"Don't We know p says she.
"Kuow ?" I cried, in a rage. "What
should I ask yot. for, if did know y
didn't thau know he were at thai
house ?"
Ahl so he was. I'd nearly forg item
that he was one of the guests at my
wife's party. Clearly, I couldn't get
the safe open, aud didn't like to leave
the money in my desk, so Iput it in my
pocket and took it home, thinking I'd
| give it to Cousins with my key, to put
/ in the safe when l returned.
A nice mess I got into when reached
home for you see it had beon arranged
that was to go up stairs and dress be-
fore anybody came and that then our
room was TO be made ready for the la
dies to take their bOnnets otf-for they
were not all carriage people. Well,
YOU never saw such n thing When
got home and crept up stairs to dress
/ she people had all come, so the servant
~ = EM-.w
| bonnets, and five pork pic hats, and
half dozen everyday cuFls hanging
| over the looking-glass. Upon my word,
I really didn't like to perform my toi
let among all these feminine gear; and
there was no lock on the door and my
\ dress clothes were all smothered NJ
among these muffs and things. But
got through pretty we'll, and had Just
| gotsone of my legs into my trowsers
| when b ng.atrop-dOp-dop such a rat
tie at the knocker, and heard my
/ wife scutling away into the hall. They
were the Marksbys, our trump cards
who kept their own carriage and every
thing grand.
$50 kind OF You, dear r. said my
wife, kissing Mrs. Marksby most affec
tionately; 1 could hear the reports
where l stood.
$50 delightedl Really, how nicely
how beautiful you arrange everything
/ can't have thirgs so nice, with all m.
servants and"
g Run mp stairs, dear, do - said m.
wife; you know the room--ny room
right hand at the top OF the stairs"
/ heard a hutter Of female wings o
the stairs. What was I 10 dof If
could have managed the other leg,
wouldn't have minded, but I couldn't
. / hadn't worn those dress things for
good while, and / don't get any thinnt
81 grow older. No, for the life Of u
I cCuldn't dispose Of that othsr leg