The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-12
CHAPTER "

CHAPTER ".
This is not one Of those stories which
torDents the reader by refusing to tell him
all that the writer knows.
Once for all, let the reader understand
that the bonds and the letters which An
tony Blake found in his box belonged to u
very nice girl whose name was Edith Lane.
How it happened that they were all in this
box shall now be briefly told
1t was some six months before Antony
Blake found them that Edith Lanes father
called her into his own room. He then eX-
planned to her that she was 50 old that she
must learn to take care Of her own affairs.
81 do not mean" said he, TO turn over
TO you now the whole of your mothers
property, but l do mean to turn over TO
you 50 much that you snail not have to
come running to me when you want to buy
a shoestring and q paper of pins. l have
placed in this envelope number Of bonds;
am going to show you how to cut off the
coupons from these bonds. You will have
to do this twice year; you will then have
to carry these coupons to the Waverly
bank, where | have opened an account for
you. When you want money you will
write d check on the Waverly bank, and
you will go for the money yourself or send
for it. You can do as You please about
keeping an account of these things. If |
were you | would keep little cash book,
but l shall ask no questions. If you come
to me at any time for money | shall then
ask questions. But it is a great deal bet
ter that you shall learn 10 take care of
your own affairs before | die"
Poor Edith was distressed and panied to
hear her father talk of dying. She said as
much She said that she knew nothing
about business, and she had great deal
rather go on as they were. But he was
flint. lie told her that his precise object
was TO teach her TO draw a check and to
keep a bank account, and to teach her
something of her interest in the cOmmu-
nifty, not TO say her duties in the cOmmu-
nifty. He had begun with thirty or forty
thousand dollars of her fortune, which he
had put into these bonds
Edith was frightened, and said she did
not know where she would keep the bonds,
and she was afraid they might be stolen.
That" said her father, lis the second
thing that you are 10 be taught. You will
not keep these bonds; | do not keep mine.
| have brought these this morning from
my own safe to give them TO you. / have
ordered the carriage, and | am now going
to take you down to what Is known as the
Amicable Safe company. | am going to
hire little safe there in your name, and
you will keep your bonds in that safe.
When you want to cut OF the coupons you
viii go down 10 the An;cable you viii
have the safe opened, and you will cut off
what you need"
This frightened Edith more than ever.
She almost cried, but in her distress she
referred To an old joke of the family Dor
rowed from the Georgia Sketches II IS
the story of young man whose fsth her was
urging him TO marry, and said TO him.
Where would you be if ! had not mar
ried?' The young fellow replied between
his sobs, Yes. dad, but you married
mother, and l shall have TO be put out TO "a
strange gal" Edith slid she did not want
70 be put out to any AmiCAble Safe com
pany or any Waverly bank. She wanted
her father to take care OF her money and 10
give her what she wanted TO spend.
But he was perfectly arm. The carriage
came TO tho door, and Edith had 70 20 up
to pat on her hat aud sacque and gloves TO
go down for her first lesson. What she
was taught the reader already knows. She
was taken through the gates, she was in
PRODUCED to the attentive wander, and she
had assigned 70 her one Of the smallest
sales, exactly such a safe as Antony Blake
had, and as il happened tine number " -
next TO his, No. APIS. The reader now has
a partial notion Of what mistake had oc-
Cured
In point of fact, about month before
Antony Blake had met this disappOint-
he -. nv
minor powers who, under orders. overrule
this world, that he and Edith Lane went
nearly at the same time to the Amicable
Antony hsd gone simply to snow himself,
that be might keep up the reputation
which be had acquired a. a don among
donS. Edith had gone. on her second
visit. to cut of some coupons, which she
had done successfully. and which she had
carried TO deposit AT her bank. But It had
so happened that when she brought back
her little box TO place it in her safe, An
tony Blake was already in that corridor Of |
the columbarium, and was opening his
safe tn put his box away. The lock made
some little obstacle, and he LII laid his
box on the floor that he might have both [
hands in handling the key. Edith had 70
wait a moment for his operations 10 be I
dlsAF az tHtitNAs sly AsAA
box OF the floor Is she stood bv him, in
fact, il the reader Is curious, putting on
her gloves ~ the same moment. Antony
touched his hat % hex. st12-.l- uicAed ID /
the box and put il into his own safe, with
out any thought that he had made q
transfer. BE passed oct Of the doors. sa-
luted the wardens and was gone Edith |
put the other box into her safe. and. IS
the reader sees, the change was compleJel /
without g thought from either party.
X wss not till Antony Blake was well In
Pittsburg. dealing with The various sons
OF Tubal Cain who make that CITY enc OF /
the richest and lovelie~t IN tie world. thst /
Edith enc day ordered the carris-s. drove /
down 70 the Arnicsble, took out what she /
supposed 70 b her box, and found n II i
AntonY's CattsrauZus Rad Csa.Jus-s bonds !