The Van Buren press., 1877-07-17

a hidden spring TIE door of seer
cupboard that was frmed into a bend
the chimney Immediately flew open.
There, on the lowest shelf of the sma
and otherwise emptyrecess, lay an en-
broidered travelling by, which MIR. Nor
ton took out and ustrapped. To h
and the officers establishment. and to Il
dismay of the Reminaons, the bag WI
filled with packages otbank-notes whic
on examination, prova to be the ident
cal ones taken from TIL Flint Rock Bnnl
The Remingtons bth affirmed this
they bad never known fthe existence q
the cupboard, which M. Moreton sal
he had made himself, SINE years ago. a
a storage place for qan,ity of valua
BILE but unused family sIver.. So far a
he knew no one had ben aware of th
location OF the cupboaa excepting hin
self, his wife. now deaf his son Walter
who was in South Iherica, and hi
daughter Ethel, who haI not been out o
her room for months lie had left it t,
her to show Mrs. Remington over tn,
house at the time of tn purchase, ant
supposed she had told er about the Sc
cret cupboard.
The attention of the Tile group arount
the bag was now calledpy Mrs. Reming
ton to an ornamental sRret monogram
=" E Mon its frnt, embroidered
within wreath of brilliant autumn
leaves.
This bag surely belonged to my
daughter said Mr. Nreton, exctedly
When Ethel Moreto was questioned
with regard to the mater, she said she
had not thought of u bag since size had
been i'll. Mrs. Remigton had called on
her few days betori the robbery. but
she could not belNe that that lady
would have stolen .nything from the
house She did not remember whether
or not she had told II Rcmingtons about
the secret cupboard. Il
The term of COURT which the Rem
lngtons were to be trA for the robbery
was now at hand. butpn motion of the
eminent counsel whonthey had retained,
the case was continue to the next term.
AS the money bad ben recovered, and
there was pronounce public sympathy
with the defendants, lie bank officials,
especially Mr.. Morete, were anxious to
have the prosecutingt torney quash the
Indictment, but Mr.. hmington insisted
on legal cXonerationi
One day during thearly summer the
family physician, VIII dad known Ethel
intimately from her 18th, surprised Mr..
Moreton with the advancement that his
daughter was kept by some mental
trouble, and that he klieyed it to be in
some way connected it'll the bank affair.
"She fell ILL" saidr. Knowlton,' the
day ,, The robahssTi is re isspsered. FseRa
Z; % is fou u|. - q the ID s,rg s,s,u 'uase
q fear Of 49, " Sic knew of the secret
cupboard, and the money was found in
cr bag Besides, her nervous attacks
lways occur whenever the bank affair is
in her presence. The burden
pou her mind must be alleviated or she
ill never live to see another autumn
This private interview, which the faith
ii and skiltul old physician had sought
18th Mr.. Moreton, was hardly over be-
ore the latter almost broken down by a
ewildering sorrow, repaired to his
aughter's sick chamber.
1t took much persuasion, aud the reit
rated presentment of the fact that the
lnoeent were suffering for the guilty, to
lducc Ethel, with sobs and tears, to tell
er story. At last she said:
you know. papa, that was at that
french boarding school in the city two
ears. There were in the institution
What was called 'se ret cliques' just a
ew of the girls with congenial tastes met
egularly in each others rooms. There
we're the Lovers of Laughter and the
Ten Tried Travellers each having pass
words and signs. l belonged to the
Ten Tried Travellers The society was
It first useful in its design and tenden
lies,
1--WE went on imaginary trips around
he world, and, at our meetings, dressed
n travelling suits, and had our maps
yuide books and well stored lunch has
lets. We would stop and explore every
ION siderable town and interesting point
"Toward the end of the first year Ju
ia McMarshall came to the school She
was very stylish young lady who had
raveled all over Europe and the East
Each Of the cliques WED in efforts to ge
ler, but ours was successful. One OF
our society having left school she wa
Installed as one of the Ten
.sShe was very handsome and fascina
ing, and had been in society grea
deal, but came to Madam Leclerc's tC
perfect herself in music and French, pre-
vious to going abroad again, this TIM
on her wedding tour. She fairly Devil
iercd us with tales of adventure, and pro
posed that when she went on this trip W,
should all accompany her, being then /
married woman she couli chaperon us
1--WE all asked our patents, when W.
went home at Christmas, if we could &C
with her. and were all rtfused-as you
papa, may remember in my case. Then
on our return, Miss McNarshall propos
ed that we should get upa fund, putting
into it all the money we could by any de
vice coax from our parents and place it il
her hands to pay our expenses. She wa
to invite us to go with her and our pa
rents were to believe tha we were to b
her free guests. But we could not ge
near enough for the purpose.
"At the beginning of he spring term
Julia got changed around so as to roor
with me. She used to tdk to me unit
| became completely carried away witt