Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-10

found herself alone in the bank.
She had locked the door behind the
cashier, the only friend seemed left to
her by the world, and returned to the
vault.
Her fingers hastened to try the safe,
but it yielded not, and while she sank
back with sigh darkness came upon
the town.
The jail stood almost directly oppo-
site the bank, and its hard stone walls
looked like the closed portals of doom to
the girl. Ever and anon Amy tried the
safe. each time with hope in her heart,
but it sank after the effort.
Suddenly a sound caused her to start.
Loud cries reyerberated through the
street. They grew terribly distinct, and
at last left no doubt as to their import.
The mob were about to assault the
Jail.
Amy listened. tugged at the iron
doors, then desisted, with a groan, to
listen again.
All at once the door of the bank was
unlocked from without. and a man
sprung to Amy's side.
"0pen yet ?"
"No."
"My God The mob is at the Jail |!
1t is armed with sledges and picks. The
sheriff has fed with the keys. I told
him to 60, and the fiends will soon batter
at the DOORS
Before Amy could reply. sharp, STEM
torian blows fell upon their ears.
"Listen!" said the cashier, pale as
death. "They are at work. Holy Heav-
en- why don't the mechanism save him 2"
With his last words Meredith few at
the safe like tiger, but the doors re-
fused to yield.
"God help him |" he calculated.
"Watch it all the time, girl l will re-
port soon"
He was gone, and for the second time
the girl was alone in the bank.
Louder and louder grew the blows Of
the sledges on the Jail doors.
They could not resist long, for, as
they were the outer ones, they were not
very strong.
Hark the strange noise and the wild
cry that followed told Amy that the door
had yielded. She sprung to her feet
but the night prevented her from seeing
across the street.
But she pictured the mob swarming
into the Jail, eager to tear Orrin Wal
ters from his cell and perpetrate thai
crime which the cashier had declared
objectionable.
Then back to the safe again.
1t still defed her hopes, and met he
with new fears.
John Meredith suddenly reappeared.
Amy open yet? ?" he cried.
"No, sir. If it was 1 would not b.
here
The cashier sank back gasping.
"They. are hammering on the grated
door. A few more blows and they viii
be at his CELL
'No, no, don't say that, Mr.. Mere
dith y cried the despairing girl. "Can'
you do anything?"
"Nol They wouldn't listen to tn
voice Of God. The safe must open with
in five minutes or he is gone"
The cashier sprung to the safe again
and the next moment cry of exultatio
broke from him.
The doors opened
Amy leaped to his side
'.Let me at the papers know th'
corners of the safe as I know my Shaks
peare i" cried Cashier Meredith, push
ing her back.
Amy stood behind him breathless, bu
smiling.
"Here they are p said the cashier
rising, and the papers. which he held i
his hand were suddenly snatched away
"Pll save him !" cried the girl, anc
before the man could restrain her sh
was bounding toward the door.
Across the street she few, the paper
in one hand, and something that gil
tered in the starlight in the other.
MAKE way !" she cried, as she struc
the steps that led to the battered POI
tails. 81 can prove him innocent, an
no one must refuse me audience !"
She was recognized at once, and tt
sounds of the sledges suddenly gre
still.
LET the girl have chance!" shou
ed dozen voices, as the members of Il
mob fell back and permitted Amy
pass to the front.
$50 on 'tis but trick to gai
time p said voice and the banker
daughter turned upon the speaker.
i "Liar p she cried. "You will swa
low your cowardly words when my dea
father speaks for the man in yond
CELL"
Orrin Walters heard the voice ar
started.
He had listened to the blows an
, curses of the mob unmoved, but Il
voice of the woman he loved made hi