THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

THE LOST BANK NOTE,

Chapter 1

It was not on a first impulse, but after due reflection, that I, George Dunning, articled cleric in tho oflice of IVlessrs, Bustler and Clark, Solicitors, decided on retaining the bank note which I had found behind my desk. My first impulse, I need hardly say, was to carry it to one of the firm, with an explanation of the way in which I dis covered it. For tire money was certainly not mine ; and I hope I was a sufficiently honest man, if a poor one, to scout the idea of keeping what did not belong to me. So, as i say, my first thought was to carry it to one of my chiefs the earliest thing next morning, and to relate how, moving my desk in a search after a favourite pen which had sbpped behind it and the wall, I had come upon this Bank of England note amid the dust and scraps there accumulated. But second thoughts brought doubt, and perhaps a grain of selfishness. Sup pose, I argued to myself (the rest of the clerks were gone for the night : I had the office to myself, and plenty of leisure for reflection), suppose this money does not belong to Bustler and Clark more than to . myself 1 They have only tenanted this office for abcari two years, and the note is dusty enough to have lain between the desk and the wall for eight or ten years. Then Bustler and Clarke took the furni ture as it stands, on moving ip. It is possible the note may have lain there all the time. If they had lost it, I should surely have heard something of it. All things considered, I may have a right to keep the money without forfeiting my claim to bo called an honest fellow ; at all events, I shall acquire that right if 1 . convince myself that the note never be longed to Bustler and Clark. Thinking it out thus, I again scrutinised the valuable scrap of tissue-paper in my hand. Upon first finding it, I had thought it was some such trash as Tom, our office boy was accustomed to purchase in the street. Tom was for ever buying cheap penknives which would not cut ; cheap cast-iron cannons which burst with the first discharge. And a favorite bar gain of Tom’s was to spend a penny in a curious assortment of useless articles, including four brass rings, a sham breast pin, a counterfeit sovereign, a printed puzzle, a couple of ballads, and a note for five pounds on tho “Bank of Elegance.” Therefore I thought my treasure trove might be one of Tom’s precious JBank of Elegance notes. . Yet it was no sham paper money, mine ; but a veritable Promise to Pay, signed on behalf of the Governor and Company of the nationl establishment. Number 07,482 ; and for five hundred pounds. Trembling with hope at so sudden an accession to fortune—more wealth than I had ever owned at once—and with the fear of losing it as suddenly, I reopened the safe which it was my duty to lock at night, and took out the bill-book. Herein I knew the numbers of all bank-notes were entered which ? passed through the hands of Bustler and Clarke during the last five years, I should find a record of it in a special portion of the bill-book apor tioned to Bank of England notes. I ran my eye down the money columns, looking for five hundred pounds. A chill sense of disappointment struck me as I came upon an entry opposite a date of some eighteen months back. Number 07,482 had passed through tho hands of Bustler and Clarke. Moreover it stood recorded as having been paid away to William Wylde ; and there was a marginal note attached : “See letter of instruction from Thcophilus Langbrace, Esquire,” with number and date quoted. Here was a mystery at the outset. Number 07,482 had been paid to William Wylde eighteen months ago, and yet 1 held it in my hand. I hunted up the letter of instruction referred to, among the tied-up correspondnce of a couple of years back. The entry was correct. I found the letter of Theophilus Longbrace, one of the firm’s clients, authorising Messrs Bustler and Clarke to pay William Wylde the sum of five hundred pounds “in discharge of ail claims” on Theo pliilus Lanhraco, and further requiring Messrs. Bustier and Clarke to obtain Wylde’s receipt in full for the amount. I remembered Wylde now. A shabby actor, who filled secondary parts at a transpontine theatre, and who frequented a tavern at which our office boy Tom was too often seen. It was in Tom’s presence that I had met Wylde, in whom I saw little to admire or even to tolerate. A boastful, truculent man he seemed at the best, much given to gin and to an inordi nate estimation of his own abilities which were more patent to himself than to the manager. He had married, as I learnt from Tom on the first introduction, above his station ; in fact, it was said that his wife had been a lady, the daughter of our client Theophilus Langbrace. How Wylde’s vulgar manner and loud assertive ness had fascinated her was a mystery which the poor, lady would never answer now, for she was dead. It had been an ill-assorted union ; and Wylde who had received some assistance from his father in-law during his wife’s life-time, fell into worse ways after her death, and grew more drunken, more dissipated, and more arrogant,

This, then, was the person for whom the note for five hundred pounds had evi denty been intended, and who appeared in our books as having received Number 07,482. That ho had never come into possession of his due, the obvious gift of his father-in-law, was proved by the note in my possession. The mystery was not to be cleared up that night, it was certain ; so I determined to wait till next day, and question old Graham. Old Graham was a clerk in the employ ment of Busier and Clarke, a fellow worker of mine, and with- whom we younger fellows held little communion. He was a shy, little, broken-down, pre maturely old man, whose retiring habits and general timorousness left nothing in common between him an the rest, who •made few acquaintances. The younger men spoke of old Graham with a half pitying, half contemptuous tone, as one whose ways of life did not consort with the ardent spirits who enjoyed existence on eighty pounds a year. I believe I understood the old man the best of all my colleagues. We were good friends, for beneath that shy and shambling exterior he possessed a kind heart, and he had a treasure in his home of which the rollick ing young bloods at Busier and Clarke’s never dreamt. I alone could estimate that treasure. I alone was a welcome guest in the modest ground floor at Ken nington, and knew how much beauty and gentle worth were represented in Kate Graham. My intimacy with her father had taught me this, and the knowledge soon brought a warmer feeling. Seeing how dear she was to him, I had come to hope for a time when I should supplant him in her care and love. I knew that I was welcome in the household (it consisted but of himself and her), and I left the rest to time and constancy. As matters stood, I was too poor to marry, until the discovery of the five hundred pound note awakened a hope which I determined should only be realised according to the dictates of strict honesty. (7 o be continued. )

CHISPA’S LETTER.

“I am not yet so bald that yon can see my brains. ” —Longfellow.

(From Ashburton Herald, May 31. ) John Hall will have it that the country can’t pay its way—that there is ever so

much leeway made, and that all hands will have to put “ shillings in” without any thing to win, and therefore no winner, and no shout. Taxation’s the word all round, and no getting out of it. Sir George again, doesn’t like to allow that we are in queer street, and stoutly affirms that the Honorable John is out in his calculations, coming it strong that when everything is totted up it won’t look nearly so bad as Johnny Oltock and the Major make out. I hope he is right, but I m afraid that whether he is right or wrong we’ll all have to pay stiffly to keep the craft Zealandia afloat. lam not a man of figures. I know, as a general rule, how much I have to draw when screw time comes round, and I think I am pretty sound on the general arithmetical rule that gives eleven herrings for elevenpence if one and a half can be got for three halfpence, and that modicum of ciphering ability has served to keep me square with my creditors up till now. I find it quite sufficient to keep open my eyes to the fact that when a man is not able to scrape together enough mopuses to pay all he owes, and is running out more than he is getting in, there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. This rottenness is amazing common. It has been gradually eating its way over the private business of New’ Zealand, and now—if the Premier is to be believed—it has got into the public business as well. This rottenness in private affairs has caused some auctioneering, some advertising under the royal arms, and has trotted out the signature very frequently oi “0. CavendishHurrell, Clerk of theDistrici Court.” So often has the; latter gentle man’s name appeared under the royal arms, andin connection with so many names of good men and true, that it has come tc be looked upon now as no disgrace at all to appear above his signature, and undei the Royal insignia. And this is jus! what I want to point out to the Honorablt John and the aristocratic Sir George. 1 want to point this out to them as a waj for the colony to get out of its financial difficulties. If the bankruptcy laws makt it easy for a man to ow'e everybody around him, and their by a very simple process gone through come out and ow< nobody, without at the same time having paid anybody, why don’t the colony take the benefit of the same law, and gel whitewashed. If I were the ruling powei of this great colony, I know I would main that deficiency nil in a short time by ■< sweep of the pen, and would wipe out tin debt of twenty millions at the same time Yes, the best thing for the colony to do ii to go through the Court, and havin' come out whitewashed and respectable paying a dividend of nothing in the £, ant hardly that, begin business again with t clean sheet. “ What’s bred in the bone will ou in the flesh. ” That’s an old story, and i true one, for no amount of theorising, ant planting of Burnham Reformatories has been able to give it the lie. I heard ou; worthy R.M. dispose of those two youm wretches, Jones and Best, last Court day and I quite agreed with the course fol lowed by Mr. Guinness—at the time. H wouldn’t try them for felony, because tin i two waifs were so young, and it wouh have been cruel to send the little scamp I to prison, so he sent them back to the In , dustrial School, with strict injunction that they were to be soundly whipped. H might have added “ at once, and further as occasion may require.” That occasioi will be every clay for some time, I fee quite sure. Fancy ! Sergeant Felton ha( their young Thievishnesses to send bad to Burnham, and in the same train he hai to despatch the two Swedes who robbe< • the drunk wagoner in Shearman’s wash house. The Swedes were committed fo a great crime, and before they started oi their journey he told them they would re quire to be handcuffed, and escorted by ; constable with a loaded revolver. Shouh they show any undue longing for liberty and try to gratify that longing, the con stable would bo justified in at once adopt ing the powder and lead cure, which h would administer through a revolvinj spoon. Having delivered himself of thi speech, the Swedes were handcuffed This job done, up starts little Jones wit! the air of a man who had done a grea action, and with a nonchalance that wouh have been amusing if it had not indoxei a hopeless absence of shame, the younj blackguard presented his little hands b be handcuffed ! ! Felton was never mon astonished in his life. The two baggage might have been carried in a constable’; saddle-bags, so handcuffing them wouh have been a farce. But the two wer< dreadfully affronted because they weren’t and they walked up town behind the mon stalwart prisoners, keeping their inwarc wrists close together with some thread oi other doing duty as a make-believe hand' cuff ! If a fair dose of strap is not ad ministered there those lads will have £ bright future before them. Attend my muse, and with thee bring Thy most harmonious fiddlestring ; For I intend this night to sing— The By-laws ! Assist me all ye Council Nine, To celebrate the theme divine, But first a quorum bring to time — For the By-laws. Hail, all hail, the township’s sport, And fun of many a spiced report— A twelvemonth’s folly you are, in short, — Ye By-laws. The biggest Act that e’er was framed. Most potent law that e’er was named. Took less time passing than these blamed Old By-laws. Six-bob Crisp toiled with might and main, And Braddell, clerk, look share of pain, In making Nine men scarcely sane— With By-laws. O’er you the Mayor has wagged his pate, St. Hill attended soon and late, And Rudolf with you linked his fate— Oh ! By-laws. Toe Ivess shared the hi eke: ing, While Weymouth did some snickering, The Saint they’ll drive to liquoring— Those By-laws. The Saint at times they’ve sadly huffed, The Council’s candle almost snuffed Fiom Mayor to Robinson—those “ swuft ” Made By-laws. The job was tackled in ’7B And nightly the Committee sat, But only able yet to “ drat ” Those By-laws. They’ve broken Bullock’s loyal heart, And Williamson with shame does smart. While Andrew Orr plays wisdom’s past— Oh, By-laws— And leaves the Council legislators To become self-aggravators, And tear their patience all to tatters— O’er By-laws. Old Parkin keeps a quiet aloof, Ted Saunders gives a mild reprof. The web is rotten—warp and woof, Of the By-laws. Why do you fail to get a quorum ? Why don’t the Mayoral cockylorum, Fo help the passing, shout a jorum ? Then the By-laws Will pass in spite of absentees, fn spite of conduct not the cheese ; Dh, let us, Councillors, if you please, Have By-laws.- Mas the work so badly teased you, L'hat chicken-hearted funk has seized you; Dr has old Chispa’s words displeased you— On the By-laws.. f the had boy Ins been so n U lity, le humbly begs your pardon haughty, tnd henceforth he renounces Ate— But pass By-laws.- i’arewell, ye Councillors Municipal, ’our legislation’s halt and cripple, 'hen here’s to chess and riddle’s ripple— Vice By-laws- Chispa,

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1880.

Printed and published by Horace John Weeks and Charles Dixon, at their Printing Office, East Street, Ashburton, Tuesday, June I, 1880,



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Medical. For coughs, bronchitis, in- FLUENZA, COLDS, &c. jpOWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED. X) 0 WELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED. P OWELL’S BALSAM.- of ANISEED. mHE Oldest and Most EffectiiajrfjOUGH J- REMEDY. EXTRAORDINARY TESTIMO NIALS. HER MAJESTY S GUN BOAT NETLEY. Wick, Scotland. Dear Sir, — Having had a most distressing and severe cough, which caused me many sleepless nights and restless days, I was recommended by his LORDSHIP the EARL of CAITHNESS to try your most invaluable Balsam of Aniseed, and I can assure you, with- the first dose, I found immediate relief, even without having to . suspend my various - duties; and the first small bottle com pletely cured me, therefore I have the greatest confidence in fully recommend ing it to the million. Signed, W. LINZELL, H.M.G.B. NETLEY. POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED. Duo de Montabor writes : “ Chateau de Montabor, Aveyron. Sir, —Having suffered for some : time from an obstinate cough, accompanied with fever, continuous head-aches, and sleepless nights, I resolved after having vainly tried several other medicines, to have recourse to ■ your BALSAM of ANISEED. I cannot resist, sir, the desire of making you acquainted with the really marvelous results which I derived from it. From the first dose I felt great" relief, the bad symptoms grew feebler, the irritation of the throat was calming down, and I recovered the sleep which had nearly left me. Tire third dose delivered me completely, and I am now completely restored to health. Receive, sir, with the expression of my gratitude the assurance of my distinguished sentiments. DUO DE MONTABOR. POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED. Sir,—l have for a long time suffered from a severe cough and tried all manner of remedies. Dr. Liberecht advised POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED ; it cured me after a few days. You are at liberty to use this letter in hopes that others may benefit by it.— I am. Sir, Yours. &c., ALBERT COUNT POTOCKI.” O WELL’S BALSAM OF ANISEED WILL LOOSEN the PHLEGM imme diately.—The Dean of Westminster’s Verger writes : “ I was advised to try the Balsam of Anijeed; I did, and have found great relief. It is most comforting in allaying irritation and giving strength to the voice.” Lionel Brough, Esq., the eminent actor, writes : I think it an invaluable medicine for members of my profession, and have always recommended it to my brother and sister artistes.” Truly an extraordinary ex- PECTORaNT.— M. UUett, of Bury, Hunts., Palmer & Son, Ramsay : —“ HavmJUni in. the- habit o using Powell’s Balsam - of Aniseed for a great number of years, I have great pleasure in bear ing testimony to its incomparable effects as an expectorant. I always find a single dose gives immediate relief, and a small bottle effects a perfect cure.” POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED.— The effects of one teaspoonful taken in a little water before going to bed is extraordinary. No family should be without it in the winter. Sold by Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the World, is ij£d and 2s 3d per per bottle; a great saving in taking family bottles, lis each. Established over 50 years. Prepared only by THOMAS POWELL, Blackfriars Road, London. SK for POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED SOLD by all CHEMISTS and STORE KEEPERS. Observe the Trade Mark, “Lion, Net, and Mouse.” Wholesale Agents in the Australian and New Zealand Colonies -Elliot Brothers} Eyers & Solomon ; Felton, Grimwalde, & Co. ; P. and S. Falk, Faulding & Co. , Rocke, Tompsit, & Co.; Rosentiiall & Co. ; Kemptiiorne, Prosser, & Co. } S. Hoffenung & Co. } Hemmons, Laws, & Co. ; Berkley, Taylor, & Co. } - and all other wholesale houses. Proprietor— Thomas Powell, Blackfriars Road London. KEATINGS COUGH LOZENGES, COUGHS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, ACCUMULATION OF PHLEGM. Composed of the purest articles. These Lozenges contain no opium nor any deleterious drug, therefore the most delicate can take them with perfect confidence. Their beneficial effect is speedy and certain. This old un failing family remedy is daily recommended by the most eminent Physicians. (In use nearly 60 years). MEDICAL TESTIMONY. July 25th, 1877. 22, Cold Harbour Lane, London. Sir, —Your Lozenges are excellent, and their beneficial effect most reliable. I strongly recommend them in cases of cough and asthma. You are at liberty to state this as my opinion, formed from many years experience.- J. Bringloe, M.R.C.S.L., L.S.A., L.M. Mr. T. Keating, Indian Medical Service.. Dear Sir, —Having tried your Lozenges in India, I have much pleasure in testifying to their beneficial effects in cases of incipient consumption, asthma and bronchial affections. I have prescribed them largely, with the best results. W. B. G, , Apothecary. H.M.S. KEATINGS COUGH LOZENGES are sold by all Chemists, in tins of various sizes, each having the words, “Keatings’s Cough Lozenges ” engrrven on the government stamp. KEATING’S WORM TABLETS, A PURELY VEGETABLE SWEETMEAT, Doth in appearance and taste, furnishing a most agreeable method of administering the only certain remedy for INTESTINAL or THREAD WORMS. It is a perfectly safe and mild preparation, and is especially adapted for children. Sold in tins by all Chemists. Proprietor, THQS. KEATING, London, Export phemist and Drpgglst, GRATEFUL—COxMFORTING.’ ~ BREAKFAST COCOA. “ By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of whe fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately-flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors’ bills. It is by tne judi cious use of such articles of diet, that a constitu tion may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating arcund us, ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fata shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure bicod and a properly nourished frame.” —The Chi jj Set vice Gazette, SOLD ONLY IN PACKETS LABELLED JAMES EPPS ANb CO Homoepathic Chemists, London.