Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-20

very often felt the influence of Jonas
accusation. The two men never
spoke. If they passed each other in
the drive Jonas cracked his whip Of
fensively, or Mrs. Terry looked scorn-
fully at the shrinking couple, but
they had long ago said all to each
other that it was possible to say.
In the fifteenth summer after the
loan Charles went yachting, and on
one memorable night was shipwreck-
ed. Almost by a miracle, and after
he had sunk thrice, he was rescued.
The first words he uttered to his wife
we're: "Josie, I have found the I. O.
U. Write down just what I say
Shakespeare, Knights edition, vol.
w., page 213, fourth compartment,
fourth shelf, fourth book
Josie wrote it down; but he was
so restless lest anything should now
happen to the library that he return
ed to New York as soon as there was
the least safety in doing so. When
he arrived at home he went straight
to the library, and putting his hand
on certain volume, opened it at the
page he had indicated, and there was
the lost l. O.U.
"When l was drowning, Josie,
the last time sunk, everything l
ever did came in moments flash
clear as day to me, and / saw my
self putting the note in the place l
found it. 1t is wonderful. But it is
true, and, Josie, dear, thank God
my name will he cleared at last"
The clearing of his name was
Charles first thought, but after it
came the very satisfactory one of
making Jonas pay the principal and
interest due him. "And after this
is done, Josie, l shall sue him fol
defamation of character, and make
HIM pay for every insolence."
This was no idle threat. The next
morning Charles lawyer confronted
the false-hearted scoundrel with his
l. o. U., and entered proceedings al
once to recover. Jonas at first tried
to compromise, but this offer Charles
ndignantly rejected. 81 want the
world to see," he said, s'that though
punishment for cowaidly deed be
long delayed, it is sure to come.''
And perhaps the social and com
mercial world in which these two
men moved never had a more viviC
Illustration of this truth. The bust
ness that had been built upon frauG
and wrong crumbled away as il
touched by some withering blight
The court awarded Charles Day prin
cipal and full interest, and subse
quent action for defamation gave him
in reparation for his fifteen years
slandered name fifty thousand dol
lars.
But by that time the firm of iona.
Terry was unable TO meet such /.
claim. He shut the doors in dishon
or, and fed in the darkness of nigh
from the thousands whom he hat
robbed.
sit is great punishment" sait
Josie, sorrowfully; "and he has fou
little boys"
SIT was great crime, Josie ant
the wrong to my purse was the leas
part of the wrong"
''But Mrs. Terry, sitting in he
wrecked home took different viey
of the case"
'Charles Day is entirely to blame,
she said. ''His weakness and lazi
ness threw temptation in Jonas way
1t is the weak men that make tn
wicked ones"
The relative speed of English ant
American railway trains has been
subject of much heated discussion
between travellers representing job
Bull and Uncle Sam. A writer i
the forthcoming (August) Harper
in paper on ''English and Amer
can Railways" discuss the questio