The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-05-30

blind confidence in the honor of his en-
ployes, he had placed scarcely any
check on their actions. Despairing at
last in his efforts to determine the guilty
party by any process of mental insight,
he resorted to more prosaic methods,
endeavoring to ascertain if eitherof the
men had incurred any unusual expendi-
lures, or been specializing in stocks on
the sly. Failing in these lines OF inves-
tigation, he tried to decoy the robber
with tempting bait of gold notes; but
it was evident that alarm had been
taken and the thief was on his guard.
Macy's suspicious oscillated from one to
the other, but always returned with
added conviction to the handsome fell
low who came and went in these days
with a singular flightiness of action.
Macy became convinced that Markham
meditated fight, and resolved TO keep
sharp lookout for him on steamer
days. ,.H dNl
In the midst of his own fruitless in
vestigatlons he waited with ever-increas-
ing Impotence for the result of Man
tissa' experiment, observing with much
satisfaction that she never failed to
place herself in Markham vicinity on
the occasions of his visits to the house,
watching his actions and listening to
the conversation with untlag ging
patience. Hoyt, honest fellow, seemed
undisturbed by this mark OF preference,
and it was evident to Macy that the
latter had received some mixing of the
dark cloud gathering over his rival S
head %. s. t.f ..5,. ,ssn
Macy was by no means tender
hearted man. but one evening his heart
misgave him. The young men had
both dined with them, and. when they
adjourned to the parlor, Tissa sat down
at the piano and sang some nonsensical
Scotch ballads of love and loss, while
Markham stood by and turned the
music with look that Macy had never
perceived before in his eyes, When
Hoyt took his leave, Macy beat a pre-
cipitate retreat to the library, and re-
Elected on the meaning of that look.
Was it possible that Tissa, in her new
found zeal, was treading on mans
heart for the sake of accomplishing her
purpose? 1t would be rather hard on a
man. be he ever so dishonest, to be be.
trayed by the woman he loved. He
should speak to the child about the
matter III the morning. Tissa was over
doing her part
The evening was well progressed
when he conceived the idea of taking &
little walk over to the office, advancing
the ostensible plea that the cool nigh
air would do him good, but secretly
actuated by desire to hunt up chap
ter on proiectiles, and problem tha
with certain metaphysical substitution;
would apply to the case that was agitat
ing his mind. 1t was by no means the
first time that he had made like sur
reptitious visit to the deserted building
for a similar purpose, but as he drew
out a small volume of Davies "Calcu.
lus, the thought occurred to him tina
if his movements should chance to b.
observed by his Grant employee, the,
might well strike terror TO his guilt,
heart He tenderly turned the dog
cared pages, gloating over the formula
and diagrams with the lingering aifec
ton some men display in reviewing ia
vorite lines of poetry, or following tn
lines of choice engravings.
He found the place, and stopped t.
admire the lissome grace of hyper
bolic curve that from given point "a
commenced its march into intinity
when he became conscious of singu
lar and radical change of thought H
no longer coolly and dispassionatel
reasoned of abstract rules and princi
Piles, and applied them in cold blood t
his fellow-men. From faithful de
votee of an abstruse science, ne foun
himself one of its component parts
and discovered that he was ineXtricabl
entangled in a spiral curve which he'll
him captive with the tenacity of a steC
coil, and bore down with a cruel pre-;
sure on his head. His perpleXity an
irritation were heightened in geOmetr
, cal ratio by the jeering line of specta
: tors who PASSED scornfully by, ridicu
ing his sullerings without making tn
slightest attempt to eXtricate him.
:. A parallelogram, skipping by on
,, pair of borrowed legs, laughed in h
face and tweaked his nose without tn
!. slightest provocation. Simultaneor
equations winked hideously at his mi
cry. Negative induces turned col
shoulder to his piteous appeals for hell
: A ghoulish-looking fellow, with a fac
, shaped like a rhomboid, leered at hi
through pair of triangular eyes, an
made a low obeisance in mockery
his misery. Propositions in proportic
: revolved about him in merciless coque
> ry, and he became antecedent and COZ
y sequent in turn, was multiplied and d
:. vided without quarter, and suffered Il
9 excruciating torture of being calculate
Il in duplicate and triplicate ratio,
;. small army of knaves, each wearing 8
IL absurd hat, shaped like radical sig
mined his flesh with tiny shoyels in {
l. ambitious effort to extract the squa
= and cube roots out of his system.
LOOKING down upon his person.