Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-21

tagged and harrassed, and / told him SO.
a. I'm afraid you keep too many irons in
the fire." said l.
"Not bit of it. One keeps the other
warm. If you were as much by yourself
az am, you'd want bit more work than
YOU could manage just to keep you and
yourself from quarreling.
'Have you heard anything more of
young Brown!
"Young who?"
"Young Brown"
GIVE forgotten his name. And you
won't remind me of it if you and mes to
keep friends. There's no such name
Talking of not looking wen-it's you that
don't look Yourself, it seems to me. You
want days holiday, and I've looked in to
ask YOU to be so kind as to take one."
YOU'RE vefy kind, I'm sure; but"
But be hanged Look here. Mr..
Standish. To.days Friday and there's
the usual business of paying in and draw
ing out to be done over at Redport -
| morrow. l can't do it myself, as I've got
to be in three other places at once by the
| first train, and I'm not such an ass as to
trust any of my people here with the value
of sevenpence. halfpenny. Once hit, twice
shy. I'm done with trusting for the rest
of nv DAYS. At the rate of fifty pound
week it don't pay. You've never been
| over at Redport, and though say it that
shouldn't, the place is worth seeing, as
specimen of what places can be made to
| grow. You take days run over there
fo-morrow-yo, and Mrs. Ssandish, too.
Til give you a pass on the line, and tele-
graph to the Star to treat you like princes
| II unppl how IN Ia ,r,1I
be to hand my check-case over the bank
counter, which won't take you two min
utes, or fifty yards out of your way to the
new pier, and then you can make Satur-
day Monday of it, if You please. l
want you to see Redport before it grows
out of all knowing. Say yes, and I'll have
the checks and things ready for You to pick
up at my house on your way to the train.
| was not particularly anxious for holt
| day, and certainly no wish to spend one en-
| prince at the Star. But, at the same time,
| | had no sort of objection to an idle day,
and it was almost necessary, as matter OF
business, to see the neighboiing town,
which was becoming every day more and
more an office word. So, though more to
please my best client than for any other
reason, l agreed, only bargaining that l
should be left free from the special atten-
tions of the Star John Butler thanked
me for my promise to go as If | had done
him some extraordinary favor.
"Well, if you won't let me telegraph,
| when you do ask for lnnch at the Star
mention my name. You won't see much
going on in the building line just now !;
one Of the things I've go! to be away for
tomorrow is to get another scoundrel-till
he's found out, like the rest of 'em-in the
place of poor young-of that young black
| guard whose name I'll never remember
again if / live for thousand years."
Now | don't want to have it supposed
for a moment that my going over to Red
port alone-that is to say, without my
aife-was due to any fault or neglect Of
mine. If | could have foreseen that my
day of ideness was to be one OF solitude
! also. should probably not quite so readily
have consented to take holiday. As it
/ happened, however, | found, when | got
/ home from the office, that Mrs. Standish
| had almost that very moment received an
urgent summons to the sick bed OF her SIS
/ ter, who lived at the other end of England
which obliged her to take the very next
/ train from Carcester and 70 travel all night
| through. Naturally, until | had seen her
of, 1 did not think again of my promised
visit to Redport. So, as it was too late to
back out of going, decided to run over in
the morning, do my business al the bank,
and get ba X as early in the afternoons
the then infrcquent trains between Red
{ port and Carcester allowed.
So next morning, having told my clerks
to close the office at the usual hour, which
] m SaHur1av was alvavs an early one I
went TO John Buffers house, and from his
hands received the check-csse which he
had ready for me. Knowing his feelings
| about the matter, refrained from making
any sort Of aliusion to it, and even made
! point, while receiving the case, of speaking
careiessly about Indifferent things. put
the case, otherwise untouched, in my
breast. pocket, and there it remained till l
reached the counter of the bank at Red.
port.
PART III MKT WEEK