The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-25
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The Pretty Cashier and Her Un-
business-like Investment.

There were no two ways about it: Cash
Ter Butler must leave the bank temporarily
for long vacation, if he did not wish to
leave it permanently for. another world.
Hard work and no play having wrought
their inevitable effects, tired brain and
fagged-out body imperatively called for
rest So he was to have years leave of
absence, and on the first day of next quar-
ter would begin doing what he had never
done before in his ife-nothing.
Who was to take his placed That ques-
ton exercised the minds of all who were
concerned, and of good many who
weren't, but particularly interested Nettie.
Nettie was Mr.. Buffers daughter, and as
good and intelligent as she was pretty,
which is saying great deal-since every
body acknowledged her to be adorably
pretty-but still no more than the truth.
Brunette, with eyes like black diamonds
and cheeks like the golden brown side of a
fall apple; with mouth that you ardently
wanted to kiss until you perceived from
the decided cut of the lips that you had
better not try; with nose which began
very demurely as the staidest of Grecians
and ended with an unexpected and en-
chanting little twist at the tip-in short, a
darling; such was Nettie. For two years
she had been her fathers assistant in the
Baalbec First National Bank-ever since
she left school, in fact. From dropping in
of odd afternoons to Tighten his work
when business was unusually pressing she
had come to spending her whole day with
him; and when he was allowed clerk,
who more suitable than she? 1t was an
excellent plan. Her father liked it be-
cause he loved to have her with him and
knew her qualifications for the position;
Nettie liked it, because she helped her
father and rendered herself independent at
the same time; and the bank officers liked
it, because they paid her not quite half
what a man would have received for the
same work. Thus all parties were pleased.
A vast number of things she learned in
the First National. To see her with her
bright, pleasant face irradiated by a smile
which lit up that temple of Plutus like
rise in the rate of interest you would never
have taken her for the shrewd little finan-
cier she really was. She acquired first the
ability to separate her work from her SYM
pathies and put womanly likes and dis
likes entirely out of the question. She
knew that, from business point of view,
Peter Coupon-thin, sallow, impolite, and
lust horridn-was, as he ought to be re-
garded by cashier, a perfect Prince
Charming, always to be given whatever
he asked in the way of accommodation,
while Charley Poor, as handsome as a
picture, must be considered a veritable
bedSI, DecduSe IeUer ndu cOllaJefal anu
Charley none. She learned that Smith
might renew his notes till doomsday if he
chose, being the seventh directors cousin,
but that Jones was to be refused discounts
under all circumstances, because he had
voted against the president at town meet
ing. She was perfectly aware of the i'm
pending bankruptcy of Robinson, who was
supposed absolutely safe, and had recently
donated" the fre-company a sumptuous
electro-plated trumpet. She was equally
well informed as to the high probability
that Brown, universally thought almost
pauper, would eventually make a neat
thing out of those Western lands of his;
and, most wonderful of all, she never
lisped single word of these interesting
secrets.
This being the state of the case, it is not
surprising, in the midst of the speculations
about Mr. Buffers successor, when name
after name was suggested and rejected,
and it began to be apparent that obtaining
new and competent cashier was not so
easy as it might be, that the question
should suddenly occur to Nettie why
shouldn't it be Il' For moment her
breath was fairly taken away, but when it
came back she Immediately made active
use of it in broaching the idea to her father
who, much to her surprise took it SO coolly
that she began to suspect he had been
thinking of it himself. However that
might be, he saw President Parr that very
day. and made the proposition to him,
The president hummed and hawed and CON
suited the directors, who likewise 'ummed
and hawed. They thought the scheme
most novel and revolutionary, and yet
they could bring up no argument against
it, except that such u thing had never been
heard of before.