The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-06
THE DAILY STAR
BurgIarioasly and FeloniouSly.

.tCCOuntalt OF the Nortn ana cottn VI
England Rank at its padsey branch, W.
L. Yorks / had got my hat on and had
taken up my umbrella, when a man came
running into the bank with bag OF
money in hishand.
cam in time?" he cried. / shook my
head,
''Dcace take it'll" he said; "and I'm off
10 Liverpool by the next train, and then
10 America"
''Sorry for it," Isaid; "but we can't
AXE the money"
"WeIl, then, what is to be done? Here's
!.22,O00 in this bag, and those drafts of
mine come due in a couple of days. Well,
You'll have to take 'em up" he said; 81
amt, unless you take the money in to-
light -.
I knew that those drafts were coming
tue, and that our manager was little
anxious about them, for they were rather
uieavy, and the other names on them
we're not very good. Black, too--that
vas the man with the money bag--Black
vas capital customer; and not only
.ood customer himself, but he brought
40od accounts with him, and we were Il
,oung branch and on our mettle.
Well, here was the money to meet the
RATS, anyhow, and ] should have been a
-reat fool to send it away because it was
liter hours. So I counted it all over; :;
here was about fl9,000 in checks and
notes and f9, 900 in gold.
"Come and have glass of beer with
ne" said Black, ION the way to the sta
ion"
put the bag of money in my desk and
ocked it up. would come back pres
ntly and have it placed in the safe.
walked to the station with Black; we had
ONE beer together, and then he went of
Americawards. and l on my way to Mem
,phillar Villas. You see was rather in
nc habit of calling for glass of beer as
went home, and then going on, and con-
.equently, from the force of habit, I'd
lmost got home before remembered the
Iag of money. 1t was vexing too, be-
ause we had a ea-party that night, the
irst since our marriaae and it began at 6
clock, and I'd promised to be home an
,our earlier to draw the corks and help
% get things ready. And here it was G
clock, and had to go all the way back
% the bank.
All the way back | went as hard as.T
0uld pelt. However, the money was all
ieht in my desk, and now I'd put it in
ihe safe. "Teil Mr.. Cousins MN
agcr, YOU know said to the servant
vho'd let me in, that want the kew of
he safe But YOU had it in your pocket,
sou say, which shows that you are not
.!couainted with the rules and regua-
IONS of the North and South of England
Sank, which say that the accountant or
llief cashier shall be responsible for the
',,e custody of the cash while it is in his
rosse>sion in the day time, and that AT
light all moneys and securities shall Be
,.arefully secured within the Office slfe,
ahich shall be secured by two keys, one
pf which shall be in the custody of The
manager, and the second in that of the
'ccontant OF cashier. But, you say
again. as long as you had one key, what
lid YOU want. with, two? There, / own,
he regulations are obscure. They were
Irawn up by somebody without any liter
Try skill; if they'd consulted me about
I'm, could have suggested good many
improvements What they meant to say
was that the safe was to be secured by
vo locks, and that the key of each, moi
Interchangeable the one with the other
vas to be in the custody, etc. Now you
understand why wanted Mr.. Cousin''
,cv.
"Ell, ,my!" said the servant, opening hel
mouth vide, "and what might you wan
}Ir. Cousins' key for?'
Just az stupid as you, you see. wa
mad with the girl. own | always get
ut of temper with those Yorkshire peo
ne. Ii you ask them the simplest qucs
ION, first they open their mouths ant
ape at You. When you've repeated TIN,
question twice, they shut their mouth
and think for bit. Then the idea seem
70 reach the thing that docs duty will
en- for brains and excites sort OF refel
.ction, for, by jingo! instead of answer
.n- your question, they 90 and ask yol
ne. And that makes me so mad. Oh
Iey'rc very dense race, thoss York
hire people.
"INhy, TO open the safe, stupid" sait
/. "WhCre is heT'
'Don't you knowr says she.
"Knowr' / cred in raqe; "wha
should | ark You for, if l did know?"
"Didp't thou know he were at tha
Aousew
"Ah! 50 he was, I'd nearly forgotten
hat he was one Of the guests at my wife
party. Clearly, couldn't get the saf
pen, and l didn't like to leave tn
oney in my desk, 80 put it in m.
ocket and took it home, thinking II
i've it to Cousins with my key, to put
in the safe when he returned.
A nice mess gotinto when ! reaches
home; for you see it had been arranged
hat was TO 60 upstairs and dress be
lore anybody came; and that then 0u
room was to be made ready for the Ia
lies to take their bonncts oif-for the
we're not all carriage people. Well, yo'
never saw such a thing! When I 60
.tome and crept upstairs to dress-th
9eople had all come, so the servant sal
there were six mufs and four bonnet