The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-11-30
The BANK NOTE.

! yo""k "ASs WV "oS P"." "~s ~
morning visit.
Il am; Can 1 do nything for you
there!"
Eyes; you can do me a great kind
ness. Ny confidential servant. B,ynes.
is gone out for the day and night, and
do not like 10 trust nv pe's footman.
of whom know nothing. 10 pu' this
letter in the postoffice, as l. contains d
fiity pound note"
''Indeed! that il a large sum tc
trust to tine post"
"Yes; but am told it is the safes
conveyance. It is, however, quit.
necessary that a person whom l cat
trust should put the letter in th.
box"
Certainly" replied Capt. Free
land. Then, with an air that showe.i
he considered himself as a person Il
he trusted. be deposited the letter in
safety in his pocketbook aud took
leave. promising he would return t.
dinner tie next day. which was Satur-
day.
On his road Freeland met some o;
his brother officers who were going t.
pass the day aud night at Great Nal
vern; and as they earnestly pressed
| MIN to accompany them. he who'll.
forgot the letter entrusted to his care !;
and, having dispatched his servant t"
Worcester for his sac de mutt and
other things. he turned back with hi
companions and passed the rest of the
day in that SCATTERING, but amusing.
idleness. that dolce far niete, which
may be reckoned comp ,ra,ively >irlu
Gus if it leads to the forgetfulness OF
little duties only and is not attended
by the positive Infringement of create,
ones. But in net putting this import
ant letter into the post, as he had en-
gagged to DO. Freeland violated real
duty; and he might have put it in a,
Malvern had not the renconter- with
his brother officers banished the COM
mission given him entirely from hi.
thoughts. Nor did he remember i,
till, as he rode through the village the
next morning on the way to Worcester
they met Lady Leslie walking in the
road.
Atsight of her, Freeland recollected
With shame and confusion that he had
not fulfilled the charge committed to
him and fain would he have passed
her unobserved for. As she wa
q woman of high fashion, great
talents. and some severity, he was
afraid that his negligence. ii av,wed.
would not only cause him to forfeit he,
favor. but expose hun to her powerful
sarcasm.
To avoid being recognized wa, how
ever, impossible, and as soon as Lady
Leslie saw him, she exclaimed:
"Oh! Capt. Freeland, l am 50 glad
to see you! have been quite uneasy
concerning nv letter since gave it to
your care for it Was OF SUCH conse-
quence! Did you put it into the post
yesterday |
Certainly" replied Free!and. hast
lily, and in the hurry of the moment,
certainly. How could you, dear
madam. doub. nv obedieEc. to your
:"
Thank you. thank you" cried
she. "How you have relieved nv
mind"
He had SO; but he had painfully
his own. To be sure, it ~as
only white lie. the lie Of fear. Still
he was not used 10 utteriBg falsehoods
and be felt the neanness and degra.
1ation of this. tie had yet to learn
hat it was mischievous also, aud that
none can presume TO say where the
o: the most apparently
rival lie will end. As soon rs Free
aud parted with Lady Leslie. he babe
,is friends farewell. and. putting spur
% his horse. scarcely slackened his
,ace until he reached general post
,ffice and deposited the letter in s
'afety. "Now then. thought he. 81 I
rope i shall be able to return and G
line with Lady Leslie without shrink {
ng from her penetrating eve.
He found her, when he arrived. very ,
,ensive and absent so much so that ,
he felt it necessary to apologize 10 her i
,uests, informing them that Mary a
Benson. n old servant of hers. whu =
vas very dear to her. was seriously i'll
md painfully circumstanced. ana that
he feared she had not done her duty r
0 her. o
ITO tell you the truth, Captain {
IRELAND said she, speaking TO him y
D low voice, Il blame myself for !,
Ot having sent for my confidential q
ervsnt, who was not very far of. aud
ent him with the money instead of '
rusting it to the post. ia
''lt would have been better to have v
one 50. certainly" replied Freeland, {,
eeply blushing. d
'Yes: for the poor woman to whom
sent it is not only herself in deli. C.
ate state Of health, but she has q sick II
usband unable to be moved: and Ms, h
ut owing to no fault of his, he is on
re point of bankruptcy, his cruel q,
ndlord has declared that if they do re
ot pay their rent by tomorrow he n
i'll turn them out into the street. and III
ize the very bed they lie on! How tie
'er, as you put the letter in the post Il,
ice yesterday they must get the vi
ity-pound note to-day. else they tn
'uld not; for there is NJ delivery Of ii,
tiers in London on Sunday. YOU es
low." ri
True, very true" replied Free Iii
nd, in tone which be vainly tried W,
render steady. &c
"rherefore." continued Lady lie. ov
!, Elf you had told me when We mr. I'M
At the letter had not gone. shouk lie
We recalled Baynes and sent him Of tr,
the mail to London and then h. vi
'uld have reached Somerstown. Ior