The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-07-22

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where each had half "A dozen children
20 support, besides their wives, who,
Il 10 grievous To re.atc. were drones.
They were only Dominally acquainted
with that goodly art commonly asso-
xinted with charwomen.
Pierre and Is ptiste were hard work
srs They worked tar into the night.
and, oc, asionally, the thin nists OF
dawn had begun TO break on the mar
row city pavelnents before their Ia
bors would cease. No one on.d truth
July say that theirs was not a hard
earned pillow. Sometimes they did
not toll in vain. 1t depended largely
upon the polite.
1t was ear Nv one November that this
borny-handed pair planned the BUR-
glary OF certain safe located in
certain wholesale establishment in ST.
Mark Street. on the particular even
ing that Pierre and Baptiste hit upon
5pr the deed. the head bookkeeI er had
ben having n wrangle with his ac-
counts.
II can't make head or tail of this"
he declared to his employer, the senior
member OF the firm, yet | am con-
WINGED that everything must be right.
An error OF several hundred dollars
MAS Dttu tuTTleu over from tdCH uallN
footing. but where the error begins or
ends I'm blessed if ! can find out"
The ia t was that the monthly ales
had b, en- unusually heavy, and a page
OF the balance had been mislaid The
head booitk eper spent upward of an
hour in casting up both the entries Of
himself and his subo d.nItes after the
eSta blishmcnt had closed its doors
to- the day. >
Then he went home TO supper, de-
tcrnincd to return and locate the
deficit If he didn't get IL wink of sleep
Rptil morning.
EOOIkeepers. it must be borne in
mind, have highly sensitive organ
isns, which are susceptible to the
smallest aJom rejecting upon their
probity or skill At $40 the book
keeler returned and commenced anew
his critical calculat ons. lie worked
p.ecis ely three hours and "a half: at
the end of which period he suddenly
elapped his hand TO his orehead and
exclaimed:
Idiot! Why haven't yoi looked in
the safe for Il missing sheet? Ten
chances To- one they have been inn
properly NUM- ered"
lie turned over the pages of the bal
usual numerical mark or designation
in the left hand corner which should
follow eleven was missing. Page
twelve, in all likelihood. had slipped
into some remote corner of the safe.
The safe was a large one, partially
receding INTO the wall and containing
all the papers, documents and several
cay rcceil t. in cash and drafts Of the
firm. ...
The head boohkeepcr, in his efforts
1T unearthing the lost page of the
cash balance. was Obliged to intrude
his entire person in the safe. Fearful
lest the candle he held should attract
attention from the street, showing out
as it did against the black recesses of
the safe. upon entering he drew the
door slightly ajar.
AS he stepped in the tail of his Goa
caught on an angle OF the huge rivcted
lock: the ma, sive gate swung to as IL it
weighed no more than pound, ahd
the bookkeeper was a prisoner.
He heard the resonant click-that
was all His candle went out.
The bookkeeper at the outset lost his
presence OF mind lie fought like "A
vaged animal. He first exerted almost
,uperhuman strength against the four
sid,s of the iron tomb. Then his body
60 la psed and, not for an instant los
ing consciousness, he found himself
sitting in partially upright posture.
ana bic to SO much as stir n muscle.
1t was almo. at the same moment,
although hours seemed TO have passed,
that the drum of his ear, now abnorm-
\ ly sensitive, was almost split into
fragments. frightful monotonous
riaDgoc rent the interior OF the safe.
The bookkeeper used to observe
afterward that single seconds de-
Walton of characteristic thought and