Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-09-14

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81 ,000."
Mr.. McLane opened his eyes and
turned his chair around and looked at
me, and said: "a thousand dollars"
with as much surprise as though 81 900
was all the money he had in the bank.
Then l began to get scared and cried;
and then / told Mr. MclIane all about pa
and Jones & Co., and what we wanted
to do with the money, and that | would
pay it back to him and he looked kinder
puzzled, and asked me what pas name
was; and told him and where the store
was; and all about ma and Maud, and
how the baby died. | guess that was
not very much like business, and |
don't know what Mr.. McLane wanted to
know all that for. Then he looked ut
me again, and guess he wasn't going to
let me have money, when gentleman
at the other desk came up to where |
was sitting on chair. and Mr.. McLane
said
"Well, Flood, what do You think of
this young merchant
And then | knew it was the rich Mr..
Flood; and [ looked into his eyes and
he said:-
Let her have the money; l will en-
dorse the note"
Then ! jumped up and kissed him,
and he kissed me; and Mr.. McLane
made note for ninety days, and
signed Zones & Co., and Mr.. Flood
wrote his name on the back of it. l
took the money away in a canvas bag.
that Mr.. McLane said must bring back
and | took the money to and didn't
he::look surprised whenI poured out the
big $50 gold pieces on the counter?
Then told him what had happened at
the bank, and when | asked him if he
didn't think | was pretty good bust
ness woman after all, | guess he felt
real ashamed.
After this, never see anything like it
such lots Of carriages an. such nice la
dies kept coming every day, and most of
them all traded with me, and pa was
just as happy as he could be. Jones q
Co. was making lots of money. When
l took Mr.. Floods money back, | Just
marched right through the bank, past
the big counters, into Mr. McLane's
room, and l took very good
care to let the clerk that laughed at me
before see the bag. Mr.. Flood was in
there, and Mr.. McLane and l opened
the bag. Mr.. Flood came up and
laughed, and Mr.. McLane laughed, and
I heard Mr.. Flood tell Mr.. McLane
they would have the lunch to-day.
And then Mr.. Flood told me if wanted
to borrow money again, not to go to any
other banks, but come to his, and I
thanked him, and Mr.. McLane brought
my note corceled by great big blue
"Paid" stamped across the face, right
over where | wrote. Jones & Co."
Then | told Mr.. Flood that when we felt
able to send for ma l should come over
and borrow some more money, because
| wanted to buy a house for ma and
into any more nasty boarding houses,
and Mr.. Flood said 1 should have all the
money wanted.
When we sent for ma and Maud,
grandpa gave me the money to come.
and so we didn't have to borrow ary
more; and we took a Lice cottage, not
very near the store, for pa didn't want
ma to know about Jones & Co., though |
was just crazy to tell her. For several
days we fooled her. She thought pa
had store down town, and | was going
to school. told lots of tibs about being
detained at school, going down town, and
all sorts Of stories to account for being
home late. One day who should l see
coming into the store but ma
Have you any pearl shirt buttons, lit
tie girl?" said ma.
eyes, maam," said I, looking her
right square in the face
Goodness gracious" said ma "Is
that you, Nevie?"
Il said, Beg pardon, ma'am, what
did you want?" And then ma looked at
me again.
had store apron and a small cap
like Frel:':h girl; and because wasn't
very. high pa bought me pair of wood
en- broganS, with felt buttons, into
which slipped my feet, and they made
me four or five inches taller; and Ina
stared at lne, and then laughed and
said:
"Oh, beg your pardon, little girl
you look SO much like my daughter
Genevleve that L thought you were
her"
Then heard pa smoker down behind
the counter. He had seen ma come in
and he hid. Just as soon as ma went
out pa jumped up and laughed and
said: Snatch off your apron and cap.
Fevie, and run around the block and
get home before your Mother"
did so, and when ma got home she
was the most surprised person you ever
saw. We knew this thing wouldn't last,
and SO that night we told ma all about
the house of Zones & Co., and ma
kissed pa and said he was noble fellow,
and ''just as good as gold," and that she
never was so proud of him in all her
life, and fell to kissing him and crying and
talklngon. l never saw ma act so foolish
in all her life, and pa said she was
making love on him over again"
Well, now the story is about over.
Ma came down to the store to help. At
first she looked kinder sheepish, espec-
tally when some lady came in she had
known at the Lick house, but she soon
got over all that and began to make bon
nets, and we had millinery store, and
then she insisted upon saving the ex-
pense of separate house, and we moved
into large store next door, with nice
rooms fixed to live in and a nice show
window for bonnets, and little Maudie
is beginning to be handy about, and a |
of us work, and we are just as happy as
the days are long and have lots of mon
ey.
1 have never seen Mr. Flood but once
since, when went down to the bank I'M
beknown to pa, and told Mr.. Flood and
Mr.. McLane that any time they wanted
to borrow 81 900 Clones & Co." would
lend it to them; and they laughed and
said, Couldn't tell-stocks might go
down." An then Mr.. Flood said, "If all
the people he had given and loaned
money to would pay it back as had,
he didn't think he would get busted in a
long time"
And then saw the clerk that laughed
at me and / smiled at him and bowed
and since then he has been buying all
his gloves at the store. I told him
l thought he used great many
pairs of gloves, and he said they wore
out very fast counting money. He is
dreadful particular about his gloves, and
if there is nobody in the store but me.
he is sometimes half an hour picking
out lust the kind he wants.