Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-28

bank notes He could not help laughing
as he stood there in the dim gray morning
hardly half clad, for the pursuit had not
been without excitement. "An expensive
roofing for Duffs pigs, ne murmured,
gathering the various dusty bundles to-
gether and retreating indoors from the cold
morning air.
Il think, Duff, 7" said Trail, seriously,
when they met III the Office after break
fast-''I think, to make certain that no
thief or witch or ghost has been tampering
with the cash during the night, we had
better count the cash hencetorth in the
| morning as well as night; that will make
certain whether the money disappears by
night or during the day.
Mr.. Duff assented
Suppose you begin this morning"
Again Duff assented; and with reluc-
tant fingers, at his partners suggestion.
counted the money. powers OF Dark.
ness - he exclaimed, 81 shall not stay an
other day in this house. The cash is again
| five hundred pounds snort.
Had MIR Duff not been a remarkably
bald man, he would have probably torn his
| hair in agony.
'.How much do you reckon your pigs cost
you annually, Duff = Trail asked with APP
| parent irreleyance, and, as Mr.. Duff
thought, fiippaney.
Pigs Hang the pigs Hang the
hank and Yes; l mean to resign ny
office. I'm not going to remain here to be
ROBBED and ruined.
Il see you are putting a new roof on
your sly, aud papering it, Trail went on
| SPONTANEOUSLY. ''Sparing no expense on
It, Doing the thing stylishly, Ell ?"
| ''Are you mad, Trail p
"Well, let me see. AT the rate of two
thousand pounds, say, in three months,
that pig-sty will cost you and me Just
about eight thousand pounds year. y
Trail was apparently in his gravest mood.
That's pretty moderate, eh 2"
'Poor Trail The loss of his money has
| taken his brain. What demon has entered
this house ?" sighed MIR. Duff in the pres
ence of despair more tragic even than
his own.
'Look here, old fellowl" said Trail,
suddenly bursting into laughter, " look
here! found these in the roof of your
pig-sty this morning and what is more. l
saw you put them there with your own
hands"
:" Prodigious -
Yes, all the missing money was there.
The banker gave champagne dinner to
i'his delighted clerks on the evening of that
! day. His own health, however, was in
rather bad way. In a month or two he
resigned his office, retiring ON liberal
pension to his farm, and in order to COM
pensate James Hamilton for all his recent
trouble and misery, Mr.. Duff requested
as a personal and final favor that
the directors might appoint him to the po-
sition of assistant agent with George Trail F.;
proposal which the directors favorably
entertained. These Offices both OF the gen.
tlemen hold with honor to this day. 1t
may be mentioned, too, that George Trail
and James Hamilton are now brothers-in-
law, each having in due time welded one
of Mr.. Duf's daughters. The bank is
James Hamilton's home; while George
Trail has rented farm adjoining DIR.
Duffs. The fresh country air and exercise
and fishing and unlimited goling-al en-
forced on him by the doctor rs the best
medieine-have put an end TO the old
bankers somnambulistic rambles. Il Cham
ber's Journal.