The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-12-04
D0RA'S LOVER

DORA Will never forget that day oil the
procession; she remembers the very airs
the bands played, the glitter Of epaulets,
the splendidly caparisoned horses, the
waving flags. She was very happy on
that day-far happier than she was for a
long, long season afterward. Clement
had invited her to go into the city to
witness the pageant; he had permission
from Mr.. Oliver, director Of the Bank
of Shekels, to take a window in that
building, by which the procession passed.
Aunt Hitty had frowned upon the affair,
and had told her she was fool to en-
courage that young iackanapes, and 70
keep better matches at distance. If
he weren't going off directly, l should
forbid it, she said. How you can care
for him, when such man as Simon
Cleverly is at your feet, passes mel
They're not to be named in the same
breath. Cieverly is tall, Clement Smith
ers is short; Cleverly's eyes are dazzling,
Clements are near, sighted; the one has
fortune Of his own, the other hasn't a
sou, so to speak. As for the question
of money, Dora felt that she would rather
share poverty with Clement than dwell
in marble halls and fare sumptuously
every day with Mr.. Cleverly.
1t SO happened that she and Clement
we're the earliest arrivals at the bank,
with the exception OF clerk, and as that
person knew Clement, and had sweet
heart to escort from the suburbs, he soon
left them in possession. Dora had never
been inside the bank before, and while
thoy waited and said their tender moth
ings, she looked about her, asking innu-
merable questions, in order, perhaps, to
postpone the inevitable question.
There's the safe, said Clement, as
they paused before door. Its built
into the wall. If you open this door, it
rings bell somewhere in an Office in
Exchange street, and they are warned
that somebody is tampering with the
safe, and up comes a brace of policemen.
oh, Clement, what romancer you
are' laughed Dora. Wont they hear
it at Thule2 Let's see'-and she turned
the handle Of the door, ThereI Why
doesn't the bell ring?'
The burglar doesn't hear it, l sup
pose, or he'd make off. Maybe it's the
inner door, the door of the safe ITSELF
They don't lock this one, You see, and
anybody might open 1t by mistake. =.
When the bank officers want to open the
safe, they know how to prevent the bell
from ringing, they tell me, but maybe
it's all humbug. Cleverly told me about
it--he's teller here. And presently 9TH
er spectators arrived, and Clement and
Dora took their places at the window,
and caught far off the muflled tread Of
feet, the beating Of drums, and the hint
OF a martial tune. JusO then the door
opened burTiedly, and an irritated. look
ing man popped in, like a jack.out' of-a.
box.
C'Who has been meddling with the
banks safeP' he cried.
Il don't think IL has been disturbed, >
replied gentleman present. Clement
and Dora had forgotten that safe ex-
listed, and had Just stepped out upon the
window balcony.
Don't tell mel" pursued the irate of
ficial. WAS nobody here when you
camep'
Only those two young people on the
balcony--lovers.
'Coniound 'emr and he stepped up to
Clement and pulled his sleeve. Some
body's been tamperins with the safe
can you tell me anything about itl'
There was no harm done, / assure
you, he answered. THE door was op.
ened by mistake
The procession moved into sight, the
music scared above them, the crowd
surged beneath; there was rythm in the
tread Of the marching feet, and the sun
struck sparks from the housings Of the
horses and the points Of bayonets.--
Cleverly, on a capering steed, looked M
and smiled on Dora, while daggers shot
from beneath bis brows Rs he recognized