Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-02

and he said: "Let her have the money. l
will end Sc her note" Then I jumped
up and kissed him, and h. kissed me back,
| and Mr.. McLane made a note for ninets
days, and 1 signed 'sJones 4 Co.." and
Mr.. Flood wrote his name on the back of
it. 1 took the money away in canvas
b G, that Mr.. McLane said | must bring
back, and 1 took the money to pa, and
didn't he look surprised when I poured
ont the great big gold twenty-dollar pieces
on the counter?
Then 1 told him what had happened at
the bank, and when I asked him if he
didn't think [ was pretty good business
woman after all guess he felt ashamed.
| After this I never see anything like it =
such lots of carriages and such nice ladies
kept coming every day, and most all of
them traded with me, and pa was just as
pleased and happy as he could be. Jones
& Co. was making lots of money. When
| took Mr.. Floods money back, I just
marched right through the bank, past the
| big counter, into Mr.. McLane's room, and
| took very good care to let the clerk that
| laughed at me before see the bag. Mr.
Flood was in there, and Mr. McLane, and
opened the bag and turned out the money
on Mr.. McLane's desk, and Mr.. Flood
! came up and laughed, and Mr.. McLane
laughed and heard Mr.. Flood tell Mr..
McLane they would have the champagne
lunch to-day. And then Mr.. Flood told
me if wanted to borrow money again
not to 90 to any other banks, but to come
| to his, and thanked him, and Mr.. Nc
Lane brought my note cancelled by great
| blue ''Paid' stamped across the face,
right oyer where 1 wrote ''Jones & Co..
Then told Mr.. Flood that perhaps when
we felt able to send for ma should come
| and borrow some more money, because I
wanted to buy house for ma and Maud,
so that they wouldn't have to 60 into any
more TASTY boarding houses, and Mr..
| Flood said I should have all the money
wanted.
| When we sent for ma and Maud, grand
pa gave ma the money to come, and so we
didn't have to borrow any more; and we
took nice cottage, not very near the
store, for pa didn't want ma to know
about Jones d; Co., though was just crazy
| to tell her.
For several days we fooled her. She
| thought pa had a store down town, and I
was going to school. / told lots of fibs
about being detained at school, going down
town, and all sorts of stories to account
for being from home late.
One day who should 1 see coming into
the store but ma.
"Have you any pearl shirt buttons, little
girl?" said ma.
! Eyes, ma 'am." said I looking her right
| square in the face.
'sGoodness gracious!'' said ma, els that
you Veye."
I said "Beg pardon, ma am, what did
you want?" And then ma looked at me
again.
| had a store apron on, and small cap
like French girl; and, because I wasn't
very high pa bought me pair of wooden
| brogans, with felt on the bottom, into
which 1 slipped my feet, and they made
me four or five inches taller; and ma
stared at me, and then laughed and said:
| ooh, I beg your pardon, little girl; you
look so much like my daughter Gsneveve
that I thought you was herr
Then I heard pa smoker down behind
the counter. He had seen ma come in,
and hid. Just as soon as ma went out pa
jumped up and laughed, and said, Snatch
| off your apron and cap, Vevie, and run
| ronn6 ha nd of hof
mother"
| did, and when ma got home she was
! the most surprised woman you ever seen.
| We knew this thing couldn't last, so that
night we told ma all about the house of
''Jones & Co., and ma kissed pa and said
he was splendid, noble fellow, and just
as good as gold." and that she ''never was
so proud of him in her life," and fell to
kissing him and crying and taking on.
never saw ma act so foolish in all her life
and pa said she twas making love to him
over again.
Well, now, the story is about over. Ma
came down to the store to help. At first
| she looked kinder sheepish, especially when
some lady came in that she had known at
| the Lick House; but soon she got over all
that, and began to make bonnets, and we
| had millinery store; and then she in
sisted upon saving the expenses of a sepa-
rate house, and we moved into a larger
| store next door, with nice rooms fixed up
| to live in, and a nice show window for
bonnets, and little Maudie is beginning to
be handy about the store, and all of us
work, and we are just as happy as the days
long, and have lots of money.
| never seen Mr.. Flood but once since,
| when I went down to the bank unbeknown
| to pa, and told Mr.. Flood and McLane
| that any time they wanted to borrow a !
thousand dollars "Jones & Co.," would
lend it to them; and they laughed and
said ''they couldn't tell, stock might go
down." And then Mr.. Flood said, s'If all
the people he had given and loaned money
to would pay it back as had, he didn't
think he would get bursted in long time"
| And then 1 saw the clerk that laughed
at me, and l smiled at him and bowed, and |
since then he has been buying all his
gloves at the store. told him thought |
he used a great many pairs of gloves, and |
he said they wore out very fast counting
money. He is dreadful particular about |
gloves, and if there is nobody in the store
but me he is sometimes half an hour pick
ing out just the kind he wants.
Pa has bought splendid gold watch-a |
real stem winder-and welcomes & Co..
have bought a nice lot out on Governor |
Stafford's new cable railroad and paid for
it, and if the times are good this summer
as pa thinks they will be-we shall have