The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-18
following in our trail and giving us en-

following in our trail and giving us en-
tertainments. yy ,~
at last she; p,osed that / should take
some money from the bank, knowing as
she did that you, papa, kept the keys. I
remember how started when she
broached the. subject, but she told me
how many thousands u Of dollars there
were in a bank, and said that just enough
money to make up the sum needed would
never be missed, and, if it should be, I
il would potEbdsuspected.a t an. @a s@
\ ~ came home in the nidsuhm6sN va.
cation nll .pfsEie phn, ana decl4ed, syou
know, my intbntionS 70 remain at home
during the autumn to see to our moving
into the new house.
after had made up my mind to do
wrong, circumstances seemed to conspire
to lead me on. planned and planned.
l went often to the bank to see you and
petted old Silver-stocking more than ever
1 knew all about the combination lock of
the safe, and where you and Mr.. Strand
used to set down numbers
"Whcn you sent Mrs. Remington to
look at our house the thought came to me
that would not tell her about the secret
cupboard, and that perfected my plan. 1
coph always gosaboutsin the dark Freely
anhin familiar places, ,and find anything
vented nearly. as easily as IF it were
Hight: Tkept one ofathe two keys TO
the hall door of our old house, and knew
where you placed the keys of the bank at
night.
! "When you and Mr.. Strand both went
over to that meeting I thought my op-
portunity had come. About midnight,in
the midst of the storm that had come up
soon after you had gone, put on my oil
silk coat left the house, went through the
grounds by your summer path, AMI en-
tered the side door of the bank. .I
! "Silver-stocking never made a noise
except to sniff and sniff to make sure that
it was l. had taken my travelling bag
to put the money in, and wax taper
to light the safe with after I had opened
it. There was such a lot of money I took
more than 1 had intended to. After I
had strapped my bag I reached out and
took another note that was left loose
in little drawer, and tucked it under the
flap;
fully locking the safe and doors after me.
and went directly across the street to Mr..
Remington's. easily entered the hall
and placed the bag in the cupboard.
That ten-dollar bill, no doubt, got dis
placed, while was getting the bag in
behind the hat-rack to place it in the
cupboard, and fell into the corner.
81 didn't dare carry the money home
for fear you mig ut be suspected, ard our
house searched. Besides, Julia was away
on pleasure trip with friends, and 1
could not send the money to her at once.
And you remember, dear papa, that you
had promised to take me to the city with
you the next time you should co. l
thought could then carry the money to
her myself.
"After I had returned to my room, un-
discovered by any one, and meditated up
on what I had done, I thought should
die: The next morning before was up
IL had slept very late, for did not shut
my eyes till nearly daylight heard that
the money had been missed. l was al
most crazy, and became almost ill from
the excitement and the cold 1 took from
being out that dreadful night.
II have dreamed over and over. of re-
placing the money, and have thought
about it all the time when awake. I am
so bad I can never hope to be forgiven.
| but am glad that you, papa, now know
it all, tor have felt so wicked all these
weeks when you and everybody else had
been so kind to me.
"Julia McMarshall has written to me
several times, but the letters are all there
in my writing-desk, unopened. I have
had letters too, from some of the other
members of the Ten Tried Travellers ,
They are good girls, and one of them
wrote me lately that Madam Leclerc had
sent Miss McMarshall away from the
school, it having been found out that she
was an adventures. The girls were all
4 so thank ful that. they did not get led
away by her: oh, dear, they have no
idea how wicked have been!' ..r-
The long,. weary weeks Of sickness, suf-
fering and contrition that Ethel endured
were thought to be sufficient punishment
for the crime she had committed, if in
deed, it could, under the circumstances,
be called acrime. Thevillagers, one and
all, who had known and loved her from
her babyhood, readily fell in with the
opinion of the old doctor, and very con-
siderately took charitable view of the
affair.
This being the sequel Of the mysterious
Flint Rock Bank robbery, the Reming-
tons did not deem it best to wait for a le-
gal tribunal to pass upon their innocence,
but were satisfied with the hearty con-
CALCULATIONS of their friends over the
quiet Withdrawal of the cruel Indictment
against them. Ethel had suffered too
much to be quite the light-hearted girl
she had been. But she was finally grad
uated from leading seminary, and is
n01u tho laolnx1od