The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-10-19

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thousand dollars.'
Mr.. M'Lane opened his eyes, and
twisted his chair round, and looked at
me, and said, ga thousand dollars ~
with as much surprise rs though a
thousand dollars was all he had i'm the
bank. Then began to get scared and
cry, and then / told Mr.. M'Lane all
about pa and "Jones g. Co.," and what
we wanted to do with the money, and
that would pay it back to him; and
he looked kind "a puzzled, and asked
me what my pas name was, and all
about ma, and Maud, and how the baby
died. guess that was not very much
like business, and l don't know what
Mr.. M Lane wanted to know all that
for. Then he looked at me again, and /
guess he wasn't going to let me have
the money, when gentleman at the
other desk came up to where | was
sitting on chair, and Mr.. M'Lane
said:
"Well, Flood, what do you think of
this young merchant ?" And then 1
knew it was the rich Mr.. Flood and 1
looked into his eyes, and they kind of
laughed, and he said
I" Let her have the money. l will en-
dorse the note"
Then jumped up and kissed him,
and he kissed me back, and Mr.. M'Lane
made note for ninety days, and 1
signed it "Jones & Co.," and Mr. Flood
wrote his name on the back of it. L
took the money away in canvass bag,
that Mr.. M'Lane said L must bring
back, and L took the money to pa, and
didn't he look surprised when 1 poured
out the great big gold twenty dollar
pieces on the counter?
Then told him what happened at
the bank, and when 1 asked him if he
didn't think was pretty good busi-
ness woman after all, guess he felt real
ashamed.
In few days a beautiful carriage
drove up to the door, and nice young
lady came in and bought nearly twenty
dollars worth of things. L never sold SO
many goods to any one person before,
and the young lady was real kind, and
helped me to add up the bill. 1 saw pa
didn't offer to help me at all, and looked
kind of comical when she and me was
puzzled over the figures to get them all
right. The mines troubled me dreadfully
in addinu ond on bava not In tha MN Il,
of making figures either fives or moth
ing, SO they will add up easier. When
the young lady drove away, went to
the carriage and saw the letter " F' ON
the panel and on the harness. "F,"
said to myself, 81 wonder who it can
be ?" should have thought it was
Miss Flood, only she hadn't any dia-
monds in her ears or ON her fingers, and
was dressed only just nice and plain ;
and said, "of course it wasn't Miss
Flood"
After this, L never saw 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 g. Co." were making lots OF
money.
When 1 took Mr.. Floods money
back, just marched right through the
bank, past the big counters, into Mr..
M'Lane'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.. M'Lane and opened the
bag and turned out the money on Mr..
M'Lane's desk, Mr.. Flood came up and
laughed, and Mr.. M'Lane laughed, and
l heard Mr.. Flood tell Mr.. M'Lane they
would have that champagne lunch to.
day. And then Mr.. Flood told me if j
wanted to borrow money again not to
go to any of the other banks, but to
come to his, and I thanked him, and
Mr.. M'Lane brought me my note, can.
celled by a great blue "Paid" stamp
across the face, right over where 1 wrote
"Jones & Co." Then 1 told Mr.. Flood
that perhaps when we felt able to send
for ma should come and borrow some
more money, because wanted to buy q
house for ma and Maud, so that they
wouldn't have to go into any more
nasty boarding-houses, and Mr.. Flood
said should have all the money ]
wanted.
Then we sent for ma and Maud
Grandpa gave ma the money to come,
and so we didn't have to borrow any
more; and we took nice cottage, moi