The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-18

fashioned ceiling behind it, touched hid
den spring. The door of secret cupboard
that was framed into. bend OF. the chin.
ney Immediately flew open. : = I'D, 8
There, on the lowest shelf of the small
and otherwise empty recess, lay an en-
broidered travelling bag, which Mr.. More
ton took out and unstrapped. To his
and the officers establishment, and to
the dismay Of the Remingtons, the bag
was filled with packages of lbank-notes
which, on examination, proved 10 Be stlle
identical ones taken from the Flint Rock
Bank. Ga .A "a Il II
The Remingtons both affirmed that
they had never known of the existence of
abe cupboard, which Mr.. Morcton said he
had made himself, some years ago, as a
storage place for quantity Of valuable
but unused silver. So far as he knew no
one had been aware Of the location of the
cupboard excepting himself, his wife, n ow
dead, his son Walter, who was in South
America, and his daughter Ethel, who
had not been out of her room for alonths.
He had left it to her to show Mrs. Rem
ington over the house at the time of the
purchase, and supposed she had told her
about the secret cupboard. - .gg
The attention of the little group
around the bag was nowacalleds by Mrs.
Remington to an ornamental scarlet mon
ogram-"E. Mon its front, embroid-
leaves.
''This bag surely belonged to my
daughter" said Mr.. Moreton, excitedly. :
When Ethel Moreton was questioned
with regard to the matter, she said she
had not thought of the bag since she had
been ILL. Mrs. Remington had called on
her few days before the robbery, but
she could not believe that that lady would
have stolen anything from the house. She
did not remember whether or not she
had told the Remingtons about the secret
cupboard.
The term of court at which the REM
ingtons were to be tried for the robbery
was now at hand, but. on motion of the
eminent counsel whom they had retained
the case was continued to the next term.
AS the money had been recovered, and
there was pronounced public sympathy
with the defendants, the bank officials,
especially Mr.. Moreton, were anxious to
have the prosecuting attorney quash the
indictment; but Mr.. Remington insisted
on legal exoneration.
One day during the early summer the
family physician, who had known Ethel
intimately from her birth, surprised Mr..
Moreton with the amour cement that his
daughter was kept ill by some mental
trouble, and that he believed it to be in
some way connected with the bank affair.
"She fell ill.," said DR.. Knowlton, ''the
day the robbery was discovered. From a
child she was never afraid to go out in the
dark. She is familiar with all the ms
and outs Of the bank. Silver-stocking is
fond of her and she would have no feal
Of him. She knew of the secret cup
board, and the money was found in hel
bag. Besides,- her~nervous attacks al
ways occur whenever the bank affair is
mentioned in her presence. The bur.
den upon her mind must be allevia-
ted or she will never live to see another
autumn.
The private interview. which the faith
tul and skillful old physician had sought
with Mr.. Moreton, was hardly over before
the latter, almost broken down by be.
wildering sorrow, repaired to his daugh.
ters sick chamber
It took much persuasion, and the re.
iterated .presentment of the. fact. that, the
innocent were suffering for the guilty, tc
induce Ethel, with sobs and tears, to tell
her story A. 1act che cold.
you know, papa, that I was at that
French boarding school in the city two
years. There were in the institution
what:wascalled secret cliques'. Just a
few of the girls with congenial tastes
met regularly in each others rooms
There were the Lovers of Laughter and
the Ten Tried Travellers each having
passwords and signs. belonged to the
Ten Tried Travellers The society was
at first useful in its design and tenden,
cies.
eve went on imaginary trips around
the world, and at our meetings, dressed
in travelling suits, and had our. maps
guide-books and Well stored lunch bas.
kets. we would stop and explore every
considerable townand interesting point
Toward the end Of the first year Julia
Mel Marshall came to the school She was
a very stylish young lady who had trav.
eled all over Europe and the East. Each
of the cliques We'd in efforts to get her
but ours was successful. One of our so.
ciety having left the school she was in.
stalled as one of the TEN
"Shet was very handsome and fascina.
ting, and had been in society great
deal, but came to Madam Leclerc's to per-
feet herself in music and French, previ.
Gus to going abroad again, this time on
her wedding tour. She fairly bewildered
us with tales of adventure, and proposed
that when she went on this trip we should
all accompany her; being married wo.