Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17
CHAPTER xxi.
HARRY LEARNS A NEW WORD.

morals ana character. Ihat, apart from
any sordid consideration or misery Joy, it
enables a man to face with greater courage
the smaller ills and a~nnoyanceS Of life. rem
ders him less liable to many temptations,
teaches him to regard his fellow-creatures
with more affectionate eyes, and generally
to acquiesce in the wisdom of the arrange
ment which made the world as it is. II this
Re SO, the universal desire to grow rich may
Lave for its handspring the noblest motives.
As in nine cases out of ten a woman holds
money in far greater reverence and awe than
a man does, the possession Of such a balance
should be to her doubly gratifying and
~elevating. With money oma is a power.
1t was the weak concession, begun years ago
for mans selfish ends, completed to-day for
the sake Of justice, that a woman has any
right to hold property at all, which has led
up to the demand for womsnhood suffrage.
Beatrice had a very large credit balance
in the hands of the family bankers, Messrs
Furlong, Stephens, Furlong, Seymour & Fur
long, an establishment which, for the sake of
brevity, and on account of its antiquity, was
commonly known as the Blacktown Old
Bank. 1t was a very large balance; so large
that it annoyed Horace and Herbert to think
| OF its lying at the bankers. With their
praiseworthy regularity the trustees had
every half year paid their niece's income to
her account at Messrs. Furlongs, and as
Beatrice did not spend one-ifth Of it the
money bred with Its proverbial fecundity.
Until their niece came to stay with them
the Talberts had, without even consulting
her, invested all surplus income in good
dividend-paying preference or debenture
stocks, chosen because they only paid four
per cent.-no well-advised borrower should
think Of offering more than four per cent.
Doing so creates mistrust. During the last
year Beatrice had asked them to let the
money lie at the bank. So at the bank it
was, as Horace said. not bearing a fraction
of interest. It vexed him to see such waste.
Only at Christmas he had demonstrated
with her. "You are simply making our
friends"-several members of the elongated
firm lived in the neighborhood-'a handsome
yearly present. Paying one Of their clerks
salary, in fact"
perhaps that was why Mr.. Stephens va.
so attentive to me at dinner last week" said
Beatrice placidly.
"Oh, nonsense! It's a mere nothing tt
them. But why should they have your
money for nothing, and lend it out at seven
or eight per cent ~
Beatrice could give no reason. She simply
said she wished it to remain as it was for a
while. Horace and Herbert began to wonder
if she had afoot any scheme for endowing a
hospital, or restoring the parish church
However, the money lay ida and at call,
and if Horace's explanation of the method
by which bankers make fortunes was correct
the page in the red basil-eovered ledger
headed Beatrice Clauson," must have beer
a gratifying sight for the Messrs. Furlcnl
and the rest Of the firm.
One m~orning-the very morning which
Mr.. Hervey had appointed for his second in
terview with Beatrice-a few minutes afteI
the respectable liveried porter had draw
the bolts of the outer doors, and so pro
claimed that the bank was ready for al
corners, a check for one thousand pounds
payable to self or bearer and signet
Beatrice Clauson" was handed across tn
broad mahogany counter to the spruce cash
Ter.
He leaned across the counter and askeC
her in the politest manner:
"Howl-you-hav'-itr
Mrs. Miller would have FIVE hundred Il
gold, and five Bank of England notes 70,
one hundred pounds each. The o wa
= counted out. Mrs. Miller buttoned the note
inside her dress. The bag Of gold she place.
in her pocket, where with every movement
it bumped heavily but reassuringly agains
her leg, and in dumb but painful show pro
, claimed that it was safe. Then she ~rejoinet
: her mistress, and the cab carried them b
Blacktown railway station.
They booked to P%adaington. As the,
. wanted no companions they entered a ladies
carriage. Every traveller knows that solitud
is most often found in those compartment
reserved exclusively for the fair sex. This
a delicate compliment to man, but not, per
haps, fully appreciated by such men who
after eying vacant seats enviously, have t.
enter a carriage more than three parts full
pf people.
The train started. For a while Beatric
sat as one in a reverie. Mrs. Miller, who he'll
the boy, watched her face. Beatrice sighed
looked UP and met her companions gaze.
HE will follow US, she said. She tremble
as she spoke.
"Yes, II he can find us. Poor dearl If h
car do so he'll hunt you to death. Wen e
where he can't find us. There Well wal
until he can trouble you no more, my sweet.
"Ah, when will that beg' sighed Beatrice
''When he is struck down. When m,
prayers are answered When you look on hi
dead face, and know that you are freem
''Hushl hushl How can you dare to pra
for a mans death2 Even l, whom he has S
wronged, could not force my lips to forr
that prayer"
"Oh, my dearl my dearl that is different
You would be praying for yourself. Go
would not listen; but / pray only for yo
and H will"
SARAH, be silent" said Beatrice. She ha
always set her face sternly against her maid
religious flights. But Mrs. Miller's excite
ment had by now reached a pitch which re
sisted even Beatrices commands.
"Seeln she said in thrilling tones, whic
made even the child open his eyes in wonder
ment, 'last night a sign came to me, adream
Hooked down from somewhere and saw my
self as l must be, as it was fixed l should b
before the world began, where the worn
dieth not
"My poor Sarah, be calm.n
"Where the fire is not quenched. l say
myself, and | saw him. He was close a
hand. Oh, God means to strike, and soor
very soon"
Her voice had such intensity, her eyes sue
a wild look in them, that little Harry, VIII
had watched her in that spell-bound name
, common to reflective children, came to "