The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-10-14

IuOTuIuS, Il WouG you u sup ~ GiuC
Boyd's as you 60 to school, and asl
him if he will call On me in the cours'
of the morning or afternoon, just al
he finds it most convenient.
Elder Boyd was little surprised a
this summons. Ho weyer,about clever
o'clock he called in. The widow hsG
got on the dinner, and had leisure te
sit down. She appeared little en-
barrassed.
Freddie told me that you would
like to see me" he commenced.
ayes, elder, I should. But am
very much afraid you will think
strange. at least, of what have to say
to you."
The elder very politely promised
not to be surprised; although at the
same time, his curiosity was visibly
excited.
'Suppose,'-said the widow, casting
down hes eyes-".nind, was emily
supposing case-supposing a person
should find pot of gold pieces in their
cellar, would the law have q right to
touch it, or would it belong to them p
The elder pricked up his ears.
ga pot of gold pieces, widow? Why
unquestienably the law would have
nothing to do with it."
"And the man who formerly owned
the house couldn't come forward and
claim it, could he, eldcr?"
"N0, madam, unquestionab.y not.
When the house was disposed of eve
.rything went with it, of course"
81 am glad to hear it, elder. You
won't think strange of the question,
but it happened to occur to my mind,
and thought 1 would like to have ii
satisfied."
"Certainly, widow, certainly" said
the elder abstractedly.
Sand, elder, as you're here, 1 hope
you will stop to dinner with us. II
will be ready punctually at twelve"
"Well. no." said the elder, rising,
sIm obliged to ye, but they'll be ex-
pecting me home"
"At any rate, elder," said the widow
taking piece of steaming mince pie
from the oven, "you won't object to
taking a piece of mince pie. You
must know that 1 rather pride myself
on making mince pies"
The warm pie sent up such q deli
cious odor that the elder was sorely
tempted. and after saying, "Well,
really" with the intention of refusing,
he finished by saying, "On the Whole
guess l will. as it looks SO NICE"
The widow was really q good cook,
and the elder ate with much gusto the
generous piece which the widow cut
for him, aud, after little chatting on
subjects, withdrew in
some mental perplexity.
"Was it possible" thought he, shat
the widow could really have found a
pot of gold in her cellar? She did
not say SO, to be sure. but why should
she have shown so much anxiety to
know as to the proprietorship of the
treasure thus found if she had not
upon some? To be sure, as
far as his knowledge extended, there
was no one who would be likely to
lty up such an amount of gold but
then the house was one hundred and
fifty years old, at the very least, and
had had many occupants of which he
knew nothing. 1t might be, after all.
The widows earnest desire to have
him think 1t was only curiosity like
wise gave additional probability to the
81 will wait and watch"
thonght the elder.
1t SO happened that Elder Boyd was
one Of the directors in savings insti-
tuition situated in the next town, and
used to ride oyer there
once a month to attend meetings Of
the board.
On the next occasion of this kind
widow sent over to know if he could
carry her with him, as she had little
business to attend to there. The re-
quest was readily accorded. Arrived
at the village, Mrs. Hays requested to
be set down at the bank.
"Ha, ha," thought the elder, "that
means something"
He said nothing, however, but de-
to find out, as he could read
lily from the cashier, what business
she had with the bank.
The widow Hays tripped into the
office, pretending to lock very non-
chalant.
"Can you give me small bills for q
$40 gold piece ?" she inquired.
"With the greatest pleasure" was
the reply.
"By the way" said she, 'the bank is
in q fine, fourishing condition, is it
not?"
"None in the state is on better
footing" was the response.
You receive deposits, do you not Z"
ayes, madam, we are receiving them
every day."
"Do you receive as high as ten
thousand dollars 2"
"No," said the cashier, with some
surprise; COR rather we do not allow
interest on 80 large sum. One thou.
sand dollars is our largest limit. Did
you know of anybody who"
ssIt is of no consequence" said the
widow, 81 only asked for curiosity
By the way, did you say how much
interest you allowed on such deposits
as come within your limit?"