The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1888-12-20

VIII he found quitersht, dare say. Had
Won only robbed TIE If money, sir, should
have been better pleased. | have treated
Won only too we'll, and in return see what
Won have done" Mr. Davbarn struck his
clenched hand upon the table. But no
matter Do understand that You will leave
Bramlinslon ;onishtH
Munro took his eves from the window, and,
looking full in the bankers face, SAID:
Lucy"
Mr. DaNbarn' face turned scarlet, aud he
a-ain struck the table Don't mention my
dau-htcr's name u me. sir, If You please. |
went hear Il, How dare yout There, sir,
are the rubbshiu. letters You have sent To
her. and II you have any sense Of dcceuey or
honesty left. yau will return those You have
Of hers-af-of my daughters
Munro tool, W the letters his former mas
ter had tossed 70 him.
Did You bear me, SIR asked the banker.
Il bes your parlon.'
Il say, viii you give NE back her letters,
and viii YOU leave Bramlingdon tonight
There was a pause, and the bells of the
church rang ont for morning service.
u can make no promise. sir," replied the
Young clerk, very clearly. i have duty
to YOUR dau~hter as well as duty 10 You. II
she desires that should
"You set me at defiance, do YOU, SIR burst
in the banker. VERY good, very good, but
don't suppose that If you stay here forever
that Won will sec my daughter, or I've enabled
to write to her. If YOU stop in Bramllngdon,
she goes. Next week she travels with her
mother to London abroad, anywhere, away
from her fathers presumptuous clerk, who,
because his master asked him few times to
his house. to sit at his table, and treated him
as an equal, so far forgot himself as to lift
his eyes up to his daughter, his only child"
/ II had been n terrible Christmas morning
in the bankers house. Mr. and Mrs Daw
harm had been informed that their only
DAUGHTER. Lucy. rose every morning carly
+ and had an interview with the young clerk,
i Munro, in the kitchen garden, the door Of
f which opencd into lane and Of which door
either Lucy or the young clerk, or both, pos
seSsed key Lucy had been forced into con
feesion and had gone on her knees to her
papa. and went and impored him not to hurt
+ her George She had given up all his letters
which she was in the habit Of placing under
/ her pillow every night, and which letters
Munro had written stealthily IN banking
hours and placed in certain portion OF thu
wall, near the tool house III the kitchen gar
den Mr. Dawbarn went on wildly auo
frightened Mrs. Dawbarn, good, motherlJ
woman, into a fit When Mrs. Daw barn re
covered, Miss Lucy went off into swoon
aud her father and mother had to recover
her. and Mr. Dawbarn was in agony lest th'
servants Of his household should be coguzau
of the disturbance, which was an entirely uli
necessary excitement on his part, as they
the servants, had known all about it for TIN
last eight months Poor Lucy was told tina
Munro was to be Immediately sent away
but that She and her mamma were to SO L
church that day rs their absence might b
remarked 10y n devout but curious congresa
ton. ard that she was to battle her eyes AM
look uuconcerned, easy, comfortable and com
posed.
As Lucy and her mamma passed the doc
of the dining room, Lucy heard tho youn;
clerks voice. She knew that she SHOULD
never see HIM again, and she could not ress
her impulse. She ran to the door, seized til
handle and would have opened it, but he
mamma pulled her away, and on the othe
side Mr. Dawbarn rushed to the door and pu
his back against it. Munro strobe to tn
window, that he might take last look Of hi
mistress as She left the house.
"Good-by, George dear, good-by" erie
poor Lucy in the passage. "Wc shall neve
see each other again, but good-by and good
by and Sood-by again"