Nevada County picayune., 1886-04-21

"But, perhaps" Sald old MT Markham; ',perhaps it isn't so. l may have fallen on the floor. l may have hidden itself away in tn, safe. I'll look. l'lt search care fully. Good heavenst 1 can't be lieve this of MoreheaI. Why, knew his poor father, as honest ; man as ever lived. It can't be-
 But thossst, Mir. Markham lit al the gas in the places and swept and dusted, and poked into every corner with the greatest care. the bill was not touud.
 ! He was forced to own that he must have been deceived in one in whom he had believed implicitly and not hing can be sadder. He was testy old gentleman enough but he was a good man, and he was grieveds as a Christian should j be, at this discovery.
 'I'll be as gentle as l can with the boy for his fathers sake,' he said 10 his wife. "But l cunt keen him, and l can't recommend him; and, of course, there's very little chance for him after that"
 "Chancer' said Mrs. Markham. And what does he deserve, my dear? You are too lenient alto gether-"
 i The next morning Morghead was met on his arrival with looks he did not understand; and his con sternation, when he heard of what he was suspected, was intense.
 He informed Mir. Markham that the person he had seen passing the door had been a lady who was engaged to him. They were to be married very soon, but he had not seen her for a year. She had just come 10 the city and was on her way from the train to tue house of an aunt, where the wedding cere- mony was to be performed,
 "Of course I could not let her pass" said young Morehead, "Mr. Markham, you don't believe l could do such thing-that l could be SO ungrateful! 1t is eer. tsinty my faelt that the money ia lost. 1 am respotislbfe for it in leaving it on the desk, but don't think me a thief Don't do that, MT. Markham"
 For q moment the old gentleman wavered. Then he said
 "Perhaps I'm an old fool, but you're Toms boy. If you were tempted and fell, confess, fol Heavens sake! No, no. We'll well, don't look so, boy. Others have been there besides yeu. Fl believe you. Go to your place."
 So young Morchead stayed Mrs. Markham led her husband ( life of 1t for week or two, but nothing welt ~.ong again. Moreland paid the lost money by degrees, and married as he in intended to; but the accusation and the doubt that might remain ,M his employers mind, clouded hIs spirits greatly. lie was scarce lv the same man. His health failed somewhat, and his sleep was troubled. Mrs. Markham laid the change in him to conscious guilt Mr. Markham doubted end won dered. He had tried to believe ir Toms boy" but circumstantis evideiice was against him.
 So matters stood a year iron the loss of the note, when, ot, day, being quite alone in bis office the old gentleman sat writing { note at the desk, and dverlurhed the inkstand.
 The green baize was saturated at once. MT. Markham, who was very neat, was greatly annoyed by the circumstance.
 "I'll tear it off," he said; ''ant send some one up to put on a Lew one. i can't have a stained deSS.'
 Then taking a paper knife he in serted the point under the baizc and up il came, stained, dincy ant torn.
 "pahw said Mir. Markham, ant tossed it into the waste paper basket.
 Before him lay the bare, unpol ished wood that the baize con cealed, and glued to it by pressure and heat, bank bill of the value of fifty dollars, with writing in red
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