The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18


Takes that boy good while to GO
round the corner and back" observed
the cashier.
Il didn't like his looks the first time
saw him. said Harvey. HE looked
sort of slow to me-
1t may be stated here as well as else
where that Haryey,s. intellect has never
been known to produce an original
idea Certainly he has never express
ed one. Inside the bank he is the CASH
ier's- "Ine-too' in all things, however
great or small. Outside he fills like
position for any one he chances to
meet. Harvey is loosely put together
and walks from his knees, as though he
feared a good full swing might shake
a leg off. Now it is singular fact, but
nave never known a man who walked
from his knees who amounted to row
Of brass tacks with the heads off.
However to give the angel his due,
he is a fair accountant and draws Il
good salary, which goes to show that in
this perverse generation of viperS IL
isn't always the man who commands
the money. /, for instance, was getting
only about half as much as Harvey.
About 1890 the telephone bell had
an unusually violent spasm, and I an
: swered the call. Jim Clark requested
in no yacillating spirit, that we cali
off our dog. For a moment thought
Mr.. Clark was suddenly gone insane,
and 1 was rapidly formulating plans to
hold his attention while sent for Will
liams, the constable, when 1 remember
ed Bob
There's boy over here with
draft" pursued Mr.. Clark says he's
from the bank I don't owe the money.
and wont accept the thing. an he
says he'll stay with me till / write my
name on the face. Says you people
70 =,
an get him, will your"
had to go over and bring Bob back
as he declined to be called off" by
means of the phone. He, told Mr.. Clark
he wasn't that easy
Everybody in our town knows every
body else-at least by sight; and pre-.
vious to his advent at the bank Bob
had not been one of the population.
Whence he came he declined to state,
simply saying he come In a pox car"
Aside from what we dubbed his car
rot PATCH he was by no means bril-
liant or otherwise attractiye:. in fact,
he was distinctly the opposite. But for
deadly tenacity of purpose, as Tom re-
marked, "he.d beat the prize bull ter
rier in a bench show.
So far as we could learn he had
made no other endeayor to get place.
He came to us first, 1t may be by
chance; he liked cur locks, and he
stayed With us like Vera Cruz flea.
After his encounter with Mr.. Clark
he considered himself a regularly con-
stituted member of the bank force and
wore a constant and extensive smile,
which varied only in degree, and at
times threatened to engulf his counte-
nance. The cashier surrendered at dis
erection and gave him dollar, telling
him to make it last till Saturday. This
he apparently did, for he never admit
ted being hungry from that time forth.
That evening Jim and I hunted up
Tony, the combination janitor and
Waterman, who slept in the bank, and
arranged that Bob should bunk with
him. Bob took kindly to the arrange
ment and Tony was glad enough to
have his company at night and help
in cleaning up after bank hours His
weekly wages were fixed at 81 by Mr.
Martin, and when Bob was handed the
money on Saturday he nearly burst
Witk nStds over his afiinenoe. Where