The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-11-27
DORA'S LOVERS.

Dora will never forget that day of 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
long, long season afterward. Clement
had invited her to 60 into the city to
witness the pageant; he had permission
from Mr.. Oliver, director of the Bank
OF Shekels, to take window in that
building, by which the procession pass
ed. Aunt Hitty had frowned upon the
affair, and had told her she was fool
to encourage that young jackanapes, and
SO keep better matches at distance.
elf 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
me! They're not to be named in the
same breath. Cleyerly is tall, Clement
Smlthers 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..
Gleverly. -
1t so happened that she and Clement
were the earliest arrivals at the bank,
with the exception of a clerk, and as
that person knew Clement, and had a
sweetheart to escort from the suburbs,
he soon left them in possession. Dora
had never been inside the bank before.
and while they waited and said their
tender nothings, she looked about her.
asking lnnumerable questions, in order.
perhaps, to postpone the inevitable
question.
''There's the safe,' said Clement, as
they paused before a door. ats bu;lt
into the wall. If you open this door. it
rings bell somewhere in the Office in
Exchange Street, and they are warned
that somebody is tampering with the
safe, and up comes a brace of police
men, aszR
Oh, Clement, what romancer You
are!" laughed Dora. "Won't they
hear it at Thule? Let's see and she
turned the handle of the door. - Theret
Why doesn't the bell ringp''
'f''The burglar doesn't hear it | SUM-
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
any body might open it by mistake.
When the bank officers want to omen
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 other spectators arrived. and
Element and Dora took their places at
the window, and caught far off the NUT
ned tread OF feet, the beating of drums,
ana the hint of a martial tune. just
then the door opened hurriedly, and an
irritated looking man popped in, like a
jack-out-of-a-hox. As4e
Who has been meddling with the
banks safe?" he cried.
:" don't think it has been disturbed. J,
replied gentleman present. Clement
and Dora had forgotten that safe ex-
lsted, and had just stepped out upon the
window balcony. -
Don't tell met" pursued the irate
Official. "Was nobody here when YOU |
,amepn
/" Only those two young people on the |
,alcony-lovers"
sConfound 'em,'' and he stepped |
Up to Clement and pulled his sleeve.
. Somebody's been tampering with the
afe-can you tell me any thing about