The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-11

Wos StakBereu at tniS apparent PROOF
OF the mans impecuniosity, and GER
tainly the position was an awkward one.
Hargreaves, for the moment stunned by
the fall, was fast recovering his senses -
On the face of 1t had been guilty of an
aggravated assault and robbery And /
had not title of evidence against the
man.
/" I think we had better get out of this
as fast as we can," / said to Kate
Hargreaves has been too many for u.s."
and l began craming his things back into
his pocket. "Stop," cried Kate, Jem,
I have been thinking 3thefel is just one
chance. Let us steal the pawn-ticket."
The thought that was in her mind
also flashed upon me. i slipped the
ticket into my pocket, Kate put her
arm in mine and we marched boldly
down stairs and out of doors we were
in the street before anybody had noticed
us. Then we went straight to the pawn
brokers' shop and redeemed the cowskin
waistcoat, carrying it off to my office,
where we carefully examined it.
AT first sight there was nothing re-
markable in the waistcoat; but Kate's
attention was speedily drawn to the
elaborate way in which the lining was
quilted in, ,and the pains-taking stitching
about it. 1t was an exciting moment
when, after unpicling some of the
lining, she brought the corner of
piece of paper to light 1t was bank
note, and bit by bit, as the waistcoat was
unpacked, note after note came to light
till the whole 100000 was made up.
You can imagine our joy as we put
the missing money into Uncle Henry's
hands. He was on the point of calling
in an accountant to take charge of his
books, and inform his creditors that he
could no longer meet his engagements,
but the recovered 100000 put q new
aspect on affairs. My uncle's credit was
saved.
We sent the cowskin waistcoat to Mr..
Hargreaves at Howbent, with q polite
note, begging him accept the two-and-
-pence-half-penny we had paid for
its redemption, as compensation for the
slight damage we had done to its lining
= q damage which his skill in the craft
would enable him speedily to repair
We saw nothing more of him till the
end of three months, when favorable
turn of affairs enabled my uncle to re-
pay his loan with interest Then, Bob
was seized with remorse, --or some feeling
that answers the same purpose, and he
confessed to me had stolen the notes
that we had so fortunately recovered
The devil had tempted him, he said for
he had noticed that, when locked up
the safe, made use of small KEY L
took from a nail over the fireplace. The
temptation to clear 100000 at blow
was irresistible. He watched me out of
the office, and no had difficulty in shoot
ing back the lock of my door with his
clasp-knife. There was no risk for,
had he been found in my room, he
would have plausible excuse ready
Then he found the key of the safe hang
ing where 1 had left it, and was soon in
possession of the money he had so re-
Gently parted with. He took my portfo-
lio,too, for he had seen me put the list of
notes there. He would have gone to
London next day and cashed them, had
he not heard from me that / had COPY
of the list of numbers-may 1 be for
given for the falsehood L told on the oc-
casion but, assuming that the notes
would be stopped, he wrote to Captain
White, who, from frequent visits to the
Continent, and his habit of dealing with
large sums of money, was convenient
agent for the purpose. fancy that Bob
had had similar dealings with him be-
fore of a like nature, although he SOL
emnly affirmed that he had not. AS
Robert said, he was no scholar, and had
not noticed, in using one of my en-
velopes--for the sake of economy-that
there was any but an ordinary device on
the seal. If he had, he would have
thought nothing of it, and he was still
in wonder as to the way in which we
found out his appointment with White.
He had sewed the notes up in his cow
skin waistcoat the day, after he had
stolen them; in fact, that was his occu-
patton on the morning of my visit. And
he secured place of safe deposit for
his money by pawning the waistcoat on
his way to meet Capt. White.
After all, Uncle Henry made lot of
money through being obliged to hold on
to his cotton for it rose suddenly
half nannu q mound ON raceint of disas