The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-14
MISS
MAVERICK
BY ALAN R. TEWKESBURY

try round about was pretty laWleSS,
but Spotswood was, for mining town,
very respectable place. There was
a church, a real court of law, and but
few citizens went armed. | found it
difficult to get clerks. for the young
men who came there from civilized To-
calities preferred to engage in mining
to working on salary.
One day comely young woman
about twenty-seven years old came
into the bank and asked for a position.
She said that she had graduated at a
business college in the east. where she
had got few ideas about the banking
business. J engaged her at once and
was glad to get her. She took right
hold and seemed to learn the methods
by intuition. Very soon she was valu-
able on the books and as paying or
receiving teller, though it was difficult
to get her to occupy the windows.
Why / never could tell.
My wife used to come into the bank
occasionally, and the first time she saw
Miss Maverick, my woman of all work,
she took great dislike to her Wom-
en- are apt to be jealous of any other
woman, especially If good looking. that |
their husbands are thrown into close /
relations with. Therefore / paid no at |
tention to my wifes dislike. I have
made 1t rule of my business life to T
nitted to my care. There was no me-
cessity for making any new ones per-
tanning to my clerk. for my system did I
not admit of her ever getting away |
with a cent From the moment the |
vaults were opened and the cash
brought out till it was locked up again
was in the bank and where / could
oversee every part of it.
| asked my wife why she distrusted |
Miss Maverick, and she said that ev-
cry time the two came near each other
my wife felt repulsion that was al
most painful. Without better reason
than this refused to harbor any sus-
picion against my clerk.
Send her away" said my wife.
Are you jealous of her? II you are
you must subdue your jealousy. for
Miss Maverick of all my employees is
the most valuable"
Very well; you'll See"
@See what?"
THAT I'm right"
Nothing more was said about the
matter, and | bore myself SO discreetly
that | believed my wife had concluded
after all there was no danger of my
running away with her rival Bust
ness was increasing all the while, for !
the mines were taking out a great deal
of gold, and / was engaged all day
and often at night
One day at noon, when all the clerks
except myself and Miss Maverick had
gone to dinner, was sitting on my
perch in the bank, resting and scan
ming newspaper Miss Maverick was
ut her desk working. Suddenly the
stiffness was broken by click. To J
persons living on the frontier click {
means great deal 1t certainly did {
to me, sitting as was In bank with I
no protection except woman. With
a start / looked up. and through the
receiving teller's window saw a man ;
covering me with revolver.
Just sit quietly where you are and !
you won't get hurt" he said. man, /
proceed" +
The last two words were spoken to !
Miss Maverick, who arose from her !
seat and, taking satchel from the
drawer of her desk, went into the pay
ng teller's cage and scraped the funds
here into the bag; then, going to the !
receivers cage, she did the same thing. i
wondered why was not ordered t
10 put up my hands, but it was plain
that Miss Maverick had taken care of a
any weapons l had been used to keep 9
ing handy. Indeed, from the first 1t j
was plain to me that she had applied
FOR work in order to advise a pal as :
to the easiest way to rob the bank. !
When she had filed her satchel, turn
ng to me, she said: 1.-THE next time (
A woman tells you anything she is a
sure of without reason believe her. t
II she gives reason you may know !
hat she Is wrong. Good morning.
She walked out of the Enclosure and
disappeared. The man said to me:
stay where you are for ten minutes.
confederate of mine has a bead on c
Tou and will kill you If you move or
rive an alarm" Then he turned and
vent out.
/ didn't believe the story about the u u
confederate watching me, so the mo- =,
nent he was out of sight l sprang n
rom my seat. At the moment / heard G
shot outside Running out, there y
vas the man who had robbed me ly- Il
ne on the sidewalk with a bullet In II
i'm. Miss Maverick was bending n
yer him, weeping A posse came g
rom different points. where they had "
cen watching, and gathered about
be robber :,
1t turned out that my WIFE since G
he could not influences me, had given in
be sheriff her suspicious of my clerk. b,
he latter had been Swallowed, and 1t IL
'as learned that she was the wife of III
ne most notorious desperate in that
agion. A note arranging the details =
{ the robbery had been opened and :,
assed on without the parties knowing 4
heir secret was out. al
what made you suspect the word- be
n?'' / asked my wife re
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