The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-03-24
LITTLE ANGEL.
From the Odd Fellows Tailsman.

Continued from yesterday issue.
But the vixen could not help feeling
little conscious whenever she saw me.
There was some occult magnetism between
us two, and while her maiden modesty kept
her eyes averted when mine were turned in
her direction, she also INDUCED herself in
sundry sly chances at me. She discovered
my enslavement before | did and Mrs.
Hunters letter did not reveal much to her.
All this came out by degrees in little con
versations that occurred within the sound of
Niagara during the following days. After
Mr.. Blinker's disappearance worked
steadily at the books of Jones & Co. for
four or five hours day and went back to
the Cataract House by the noon-train or the
two, thirty. Mr. Blinker had only stolen
some twenty thousand dollars in all, and
this distracted capital would be replaced
within few months from the proceeds of
some Michigan property which Mr.. Jones
was then selling. My afternoons at the
Falls were simply gorgeous.
Meantime, Jones & Co. needed ten
thousand dollars to 'put them through" the
summer 1t would not do to borrow this
from any of their correspondents, as the
fact of their loss and of their consequent
shortness was the very fact that must be
concealed to keep their credit unimpaired.
| was to tell Mr.. Pinch, in confidence,
about the defalcation and Blinker was to
be shielded for the sake of his uncle, Mr..
Jones. BY the by, the whelp had made
several tender speeches to my Little Angel,
and was actually called away on
the very threshold of declaration
to be confronted by the false
balances that moonlight night. He wllted
Immediately, confessed the sixteen thous-
and steal, and while Mr.. Lowton sought
for me Blinker took a carriage and drove
over the bridge to the Clinton house. He
has never found it convenient to return to
this land Of the free.
AT the end of the week / went to New
York, taking slight draft for nineteen
thousand nine hundred and eighty-four
dollars, payable to Pinch & Plugget or
order. told Mr.. Pinch, who fairly danced
with delight, that | was not at liberty to
tell him about Jones & Co., but felt tol.
erably sure their embarrassment would
be only temporary. Then | got my ten
bonds from the safe, took them down to
Wall street and got in exchange check
for ten thousand three hundred dollars.
The next day l told Mr.. Pinch l should
like to have two weeks vacation, as | had
been working pretty hard on that Jones
" Co. business" The old gentleman
acquiesced promptly, and when l was
bidding him goodbye, he whispered, II
guess we can afford an additional five
hundred per annum on your salary, Gran
ger-that is, up to January, next. After
tEat-we shall see"
The next morning found me in Roch-
ester, and Mr.. Lawton had my check for
ten thousand dollars as loan, to be re-
turned at convenience. The same after
noon found me and Mr.. Lawton at the
Cataract Aouse, where we dined | may
say here that had my ten bonds back
before the year was out and that they
were placed in my hand by. But that
is anticipating.
Lucy took my arm! IN the cleaning
and we walked over to Goat Island We
climbed up the tower-steps and looked at
the Canada fall. Nobody there, only we
two, and the mad water rushing and roar
ing below.
Miss Arden" I began, 81 am. happy
to"
'If you meant all you said the other
evening"" she said, 81 think you had bet
ter say Lucy"
sand will you always call me Phillip
said |, looking into the brown eyes. 1t was
quite dusty and nobody was near, and my
eyes were quite close to the brown ones.
"Yes. That is, when we are out here OF
when nobody else can here me. You need
not hold me; / shall not fall Now, what
are you happy to announce"
~ have forgotten. love you; that is
all l can say now"
"rhen," she answered, severely, ~ mus
take back that promise. cannot always
call you Phillip; l must call you goose,
sometimes
And odd maid'i" asked, looking fol
a speck on the brown pupils.
mo; that was SANDER. BY the by,
wrote to Mrs. Hunter to-day. | told hel
she need not trouble herself to make inves
LEGATIONS. told her you ad--had sale
| thinDs 10 mo the other niyht Nou m IA,