San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-09
CHAPTER Nv

CHAPTER Nv.
This is not one of those stories which
torments 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 "a
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 so old that she
must learn to take care of her own affairs.
81 do not mean," said he, ito turn over
to you now the whole of your mothers
property, but | do mean to turn over to
you so much that you shall not have to
come running to me when you want to buy
a shoestring and paper of pins. have
placed in this envelope Il number of bonds;
am going to show you how to cut of 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 check on the Waverly bank, ana
you will go for the money yourself or send
for it. You can do as you please about
keeping aM account Of these things. If l
were you | would keep little cash book,
but | shall ask no questions. If you come
to me ut any time for money | shall then
ask questions. But it is a great deal bet
ter that you SHAH learn to take care of
your own Affairs before die"
Poor Edith w;,s distressed and panied to
hear her father talk of dying She said Us
much. She said that she knew nothing
about business, and she had great deal
rather 90 On Is they Were. But he was
flint. He told her that his precise object
was to teach her to draw 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,
aud she was afraid they might be stolen.
That" said her father, ''is the second
thing that you are to be taught. You will
not keep these bonds; l do not keep mine.
| have brought these this morning from
my own safe to give them to you. have
ordered the carriage, and l am now going
to take you down to what is known rs the
Amicable Safe company. l am going to
hire little safe there in your name, and
you will keep your bonds in that safe.
When you want to cut off the coupons you
will go down TO the AmiCable, you will
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" 1t is
the story of young man whose father 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, Eyes, dad, but you married
mother and shall have to be put out to a
strange gal" Edith said she did not want
to be put out to any AmiCable Safe COM
pany or any Waverly bank She wanted
her father to take care of her money and to
give her what she wanted to spend.
But he was perfectly firm. The carriage
came to the door, and Edith had togo up
TO put on her hat and 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
trOUuCGu 10 Jne dlGSuJlNe warner, anu sue
had assigned to her one Of the smallest
safes, exactly such a safe as Antony Blake
had, and As it happened the number was
next to his, No. 1925. The reader now has
a partial notion of what mistake had oc-
Cured.
In point of fact, about a month before
antony Blake had met this disappoint-
ment it had been so ordered 10y those
-hn
this world that he and Edith Lane went
nearly at the same time to the Amicable.
Antony had gone simply to show himself,
that he might keep up the reputation
which he had acquired as a don among
dons. Edith had gone, on her second
visit, to cut Cif 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 to put his box away. The lock made
some little obstacle, and he had laid his
box on the floor that he might have both
hands in handling the key. Edith had to
wait n moment for his CrP"ationS TO be
finished, and, rs it happened, she laid her
box on the floor as she stood by him, IN
fact, if the reader is curious, putting on
her gloves at the same moment. Antony
touched his hat to her, stopped, picked up
the box and put it into his own safe, with
out any thought that he had made
transfer. He passed out Of the doors, sa-
luted the wardens ard was gone. Edith
put the other box into her safe, and, as
the reader secs. the chance was completed
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