River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-07-19

except TO sniff and'sniff to make sure that
/ it was l. had taken my traveling-bsg
to put the money in, and a wax taper
to light the safe with after had opened
/ it. There was such q lot of money | took
more than / had intended 10. After
had strapped my bag l reached out and
| took another note that was left loose
in little drawer and tucked il under the
flap.
Il hurried out of the bank, though care
fully locking the safe and doors after me
and went directly across the street TO Mr.
Remington's. l 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 10 place it in the
cupboard. and fell into the corner.
Il didn't dare carry the money home
for fear you might be suspected, ard our
house searched. Besides, Julia was away
on a pleasure trip with friends, and
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 go.
thought / could then carry the money 10
her myself.
After had returned TO my room, I'M
discovered by any one, and meditated up
on what / had done, | thought | should
die. The next morning before | was up
Il bad slept very late, for | did not shut
my eyes till nearly daylight heard that
the money had been missed. | was al
most crazy, and became almost i'll from
the excitement and the cold l took from
being out that dreadful night.
- have dreamed over and over of re-
placing the money, and have thought
about il all the time when awake. am
SO bad can never hope to be forgiven,
but | am glad that you, papa, now know
il all, for 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. l 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 latel' 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
80 lildnhlul THAT tlicl ulu NOT Scl lct
away 10y her. Oh, dear, they have no
idea how wicked have BEEN"
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, il could, under the circumstances,
be called crime. The villagers, 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-
sideratcly took a 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-
gratulations of their friends over the
quiet withdrawal of the cruel indictment
against them. Ethel had suffered TOO
much 10 be quite the light-hearted girl
she had been. But she was finally grad
uated from leading seminary, and is
now the beloved and honored principal of
a family school where you may be sure
she profits from her own sad experience.
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