Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-12-23

would have been Informed OF the occurrences |
early on the following morning by several
competent and cred bic eve wItnesses-all of
the gentier sex. and the majority on the other
side Of fve-and-thirty years OF age.
1t was Christmas day, cold. clear and
frosty Mr.. Dawbarn was dressed in his
brightest black, and his cravat was as a mon.
ument to the most irreproachable of laun-
dresses. But Mr.. Dawbarn was pale and
agitated, his head shook and his bands trem-
bled, till tho papers he held in them ratified
and crumplevi
When servant opened the dining room
door and announced MIR Munro Mr.. Daw-
barn turned paler, and when the young clerk
whom Mr.. Robert Sudden had so playfuliv
rallied fortnight before in the street en-
tered the banker trembled more violently.
Mr. Munro" said the banker, when the
door was closed, "you--you--you doubtless
know why have sent for you--on this fes
tive occa-sion--sion, todaygn
The young clerk, who was az pale as Mr.
Dawharn. faltered out, "No, SIR" with SO
transparent an effort that the banker saw
that the young man perfectly understood the
reason of the interview
Your conduct, sir, has been such that l.
Il do not know how to address you,n stanl-
mered Mr.. Dawbarn. THAT you, sir my
servant. my paid and saiaried servant,
should haze SO abused my confidence; should
have so dared to try to so injure me isis
what did not expect from you know all,
sir, all You are discharged from the bank
this moment"
pang shot over the young mans face.
You will not be allowed to enter there
again. This quarters salary is there, sir"
The banker put upon the table small paper
packet. "As shall not suffer you to take
your place at your desk again, there is a half
years salary The banker placed another
small packet on the table, and the clerk made
a deprecatory motion with one hand II in
slst IN it, sir, and shall take no denial.
also insist on your leaving Bramlingdon to-
night, or tomorrow morning, at the latest.
Should yon have any debts here, leave list
OF them, and today being Christmas day,
will see that one of the clerks pays them the
day after tomorrow. There can be no ex-
cuse for your remaining, and your absence.
sir, is a matter of much more Importance
to ME than a few pal ry pounds; SO will
hear of no objection
/ Mr., Dawbaln paused and drew breath, and
the young clerk looked at him and then at
/ the window, as if out into far distance be-
/ yond.
/ My accounts. sir he began, when the
banker interrupted him.
/ "Will be found quite right, | dare say Had
4 you only robbed ME Of money, sir, | should
\ have been better pleased | have treated
/ you only too well, and in return see what
you have done" Mr. Dawbarn struck his
clenched hand upon the table. but no
matter Do understand that you will leave
BramlingdOn to-nightp
/ Munro took his ewes from the window, and,
looking full in the bankers face, said:
Lucy"
Mr. Dawbarn's face turned scarlet, and he
again struck the table Don't mention my
daughters name to me, sir, if you please
won't hear 1t! How dare YOU! There, sir,
are the publishing letters you have sent to
her, and if You have any sense of decencv or
honesty left. you will return those you have
of iers--of-of my daughters
Munro took M the letters his former mas
ter had tossed to him.
did you hear me, srE asked the banker.
81 her your pardon"
Il say, viii you give me back her letters,
and will you leave Bramliu-don to-nightF
There was pause, and the bells of the
church rang ont for morning service.
Il can make no promise, sir" replied the
Young clerk, very clearly. Il have a duty
to YOUR daurhter rs we'll as Il duty to YOU. If
she desires that should"-
''You set me at defiance, do YOU, sr?' burst
in the banker. VERY good, very good; but
don't suppose that If You stay here forever
that You will see my daughter, or be enabled
to write to her. II YOU stop in Bramlingdon,
she goes. Next week She travels with her
mother to London, abroad. anywhere, away
from her fathers assumptions clerk, who,
because his master asked him a few times to
his house. to sit at his table and treated him
as IN equal. so far forgot himself as to lift
his ewes IN 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 early
and had an interview with the young CLERK,
Munro. in the kitchen garden, the door Of
which opened into a lane, and of which door
either Lucy or the Young clerk, or both, pos
sessed Il key. Lucy had been forced into con-
fassion. and had gone on her knees TO her
papa. and went and implored 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 a certain portion of the
wall. near the tool house in the kitchen gar
den Mr. Dawbaln went on wildly and
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