The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-07-14

there nine years; and oh /! what a stupid
thick head 1 must have, that it did moi
strike me at once. You are Rowlands p
"What have you heard them speak Of
me?"
"Indeed, yes. Ours, as you know, Mr.
Rowlands, is an old-fashioned house, with
many curious hooks and corners. Some
three years ago the governors resolved to
have the Office fitted up i'll the modern
style. We had to crowd bit, and to use
one part of the office while the workmen
altered the other. Almost the first thing
they did was to pull down what must have
been your old desk, and the wainscoting to
which it was affixed One of the partners
was looking on and I heard his loud ex-
clamation of surprise soon after the wains-
coting was taking from the wall. He had
stopped to pick up bundle of papers COW
cred with dust. They must have been
between the bricks and woodwork for many
years. His exclamation was caused by the
discovery that the bundle of papers was a
packet of bank notes."
"Thank heaven-thank heaven 1 see
it all, }" cried the old man.
''Then," said Frank, "we heard all
about it. The other partners came in to
examine the notes, and bit by bit, in the
course of conversations, we heard your
story. But why didn't you call after the
governors advertised for you? p
81 saw no advertisement Men out of
the world as | have been seldom look at
advertisements, except when they want
work"
"What pity The old governor said
he'd give thousand pounds to find you"
That evening was, perhaps, the happiest
evening these four people had ever spent
The old pan was jubilant and could not
sit still for five minutes at time. He
kept walking about and clapping Frank on
the back every now and then would call
him his dear boy. He would sit down and
laugh, then stand up and laugh, till his old
wife began to fear that he was turning
crazy. 1t was very late hour indeed be-
fore he would part with Frank, who, it was
arranged, should the next Monday morn
ing inform the firm of his discovery, leay-
ing them to take their own method of
righting the great wrong that had been
done.
Frank lost no time in obtaining a pri-
vate interview with his employers, one sat
result being that he had an ad-
vance in salary before he left the ROOM 1t |
was not long before Smith & Co. had done
all they possibly could to compesate their
old servant for his past misfortune. He
had been too long out of the city, and was
too much altered, to be of any use in their
office, but they gave him comfortable
annuity, and he had, through them, more
than one opportunity of seeing some of
hose who had known him of old, and of
making them aware that his good name
mad been rehabilitated.
As to what happened afterwards to
Frank and Mary, 1 have little to say.
Last summer I spent day at their subur-
IAN villa some few miles from Broad street.
Mrs. Denton was most amiable hostess;
Ter father and mother seemed as happy as
I'D people without care in the world
'ught to be- l had the pleasure of riding
Master Frank Emmet Denton on my knees;
nd as for Frank, senior, he condded to
ne in the garden that since he had been
married. he was the "laziest beggar out"
nd hardly ever went anywhere except on
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