THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

THE LOST BANK NOTE. CONTINUED. On recognising us, Mr. Willi un Wylde struck a dignified attitude, and burst into a quotation, after the manner of his tribe. Eying me sternly, and then lifting his eye-brows up to his hair, he asked dra matically — . _ . “Came you from Padua, from Bel lario ! ” . “From both my lord; Bellano greets ypur grace,” answered that imp Tom, readily. Mr. Wylde smiled loftily, and closed his eyes." “Which?” he enquired, *• which is the merchant here and which the Jew ? ” I modestly replied that for myself I was inclined to mercantile pursuits in prefer . ftneo. Mr. Wylde waved his hand. .“Then must the Jew be merciful.” "Whereupon he took a seat and ordered refreshment. It is unnecessary to rslate by what degrees Mr. Wylde attained his ulterior condition of intoxication, how he passed from the jubilant to the noisy stage, thence to the desponding stage, thence to the fiercely morose stage. Suffice it to say that I kept him well supplied with his favorite refreshment and we grew confi dential. “ I’ll tell you what my boy ” said Mr. Wylde, when he had reached the depths of melancholy; “if ever you think of embracing our profession, think well. Think twice. Its a sickening life. Genius may starve in it. Gin—gin—l mean genius, is not patronised as ii should be. Look at me. What keeps me down ? I’ve had experience enough; I know my business ; there’s not another man in the company that can beat me at versatility. I’ve played J eremy Diddler, Romeo, and Long Tom Coffin in one bill. I’m not a fool What, then, keeps mo back 1 I’ll tell you. Its combinations. It’s professional jealousy. It’s cliques. That’s what it is, my boy.” “ Yet you have done well n your time,” I urged. For example, you imarried well.” Mr. Wylde shook his head mournfully. “ I married, sir, a lady of family. She was not clever, but I waived that. She brightened my home for a spell ; but she is gone. After life’sjfitful fever she sleeps well.” _ “ And your wife’s family ” “My wife’s family, sir,” broke out Wylde wrathfully, “are not to be men tioned by friends of mine. A set of cur mudgeons—an ungrateful brood. Why, they are base, common, and popular.” “ Did they never recognise your abili ties ? ” “Never. Aset of arrogant, stuck-up, conceited But there. Pah ! ” “ It’s said,” I remarked' confidentially —“ it’s said in legal circles (you know how rumors get about among us law yers) that after your wife’s death her father came down with something solid.” “ It’s a lie, then,” returned Wylde con cisely. “ Did you ever get a remittance from him—about a year, or t a year and a half ago ? ” “ Remittance egad ! I’d like to see the old screw coming down with even a post age-stamp. It wasn’t for the want of ask ing though. By Jupiter, I tried all I knew, but the old flint was not to be come over.” “ Then the rumor about your getting five hundred pounds was false ? ” .“False as ” “ I thought so,” was my reply ; “ I never gave it any credence myself. Good night, Wylde. I think you have been badly used ; but never mind, your pecu liar talents will find their due yet.” .The eminent gentleman had a further stage which I did not wish to await—that of blasphemy. I bade him farewell, and went my way thoroughly convinced of what I had guessed all along, that he had never received the money’s worth of Number 07,482. Next morning I wrote an urgent letter to Kate, praying her to meet me in a quiet city square at one o’clock ; telling her briefly that I had a way by which I could probably benefit her father and her self, and on wliich I wished to confer with her. This letter I dispatched by hand. In the office I took no notice of either Murdon or Graham, but went about my dnties quietly. On their parts they were equally reserved, and nothing of import ance transpired until dinner-time. Then I slipped out, and went to the place of rendezvous to meet Kate. I found her waiting for me, troubled but possessed. We took a turn round the square, and I besought her, in as few and forcible words as I could command, to tell me the stoi’y of her father’s implication with the banknote business, and the extent to which he was committed to Murdon. I told her that I had the means of freeing him from any pecuniary lia bility under under which he had fallen ; but, before putting irto operation the means I have at my command, I must know how he stood, and what was the danger threatening him. I urged that my love for her gave me a right to ask this, and that the same love was the guarantee that I would only uso the knowledge to her father’s advantage. After some hesitation, and exacting many promises, she told me with such reluctance as was natural to a pure end loving girl forced to acknowledge a father’s guilt. The story dated eighteen months back from the day on which the letter of instruction had arrived from Theophilus Langbrace, Esquire, author ising Messrs. Bustler and Clark to pay Wylde five hundred pounds. On that day it was a national festivity, and the office was to be closed early. Murdon, the cashir, wishing to get away for a pri vate engagement, had handed a bank-note for five hundred pounds to the oldest clerk, Graham, with a memorandum of Wylde’s address, and directions to pay the money to him personally, and obtain his receipt for it on a printed form which the firm kept for payments generally; the words being added in writing, “in dis charge of all claims.” This bank-note had lain on Graham’s desk until the clerks were preparing to leave the office. The old clerk had just recovered from a nervous attack to which he was subject, and which, as Kate said, was wont to im pair his memory. The bustle of prepar ing for the half holiday, superadded to the feebleness of his mental powers conse quent on this illness, had caused him utterly to forget his mission. The bank note had been tossed aside, and had apparently fallen into the waste-paper basket close to his desk. At three o’clock the gas was turned off (there had been a dense fog all day in the City, necessitat ing lights) ; and the clerks emerged in high spirits at their release, Graham ac companying the rest. On the stairs one of them asked for, a light for his pipe; but nobody had matches. Old Graham good-naturedly volunteered to go hack and get a bit of paper, so that the clerk could light his pipe at a gas-burner on the stair-case lower down ; and making his way hack into the office, he found in the yellow obscurity the waste paper basket, and twisted into a pipe-light the first hit of tissue-paper that come to hand. The clerk lit his pipe, and playfully thrust the extinguished bit of paper into Graham’s face. The old clerk received it in his hand, unconsciously retained it, walked a few yards homeward still holding it, and ' then, wondering what he was carrying, 1 opened out the folds. To his dismay, he ] found in the charred fragment of tissue- , paper a corner of the bank-note which he now remembered he ought to have paid away to William Wylde ! [TO BE CONTEfCEX).] J

CHISPA’S LETTER.

“I am not yet so bald that you can see my brains. ” —Longfei.low.

(From Ashburton Herald, June 5. )

This Property Assessment business is not a popular measure in the colony. Some describe it as inquisitorial and worthy of the Star Chamber of Charles the Second’s time ; others get profane over it, and the mildest of the protestors wants to know how the blank he knows how many rings and ch s his wife is in possession of. It is not pleasant in these times for anyone to stare the naked truth in the face, and I know of a good many who would sooner swim along in happy ignorance of their financial condi tion than summon up courage and baldly go into figures to find out how they really stand. “ How they really stand V Who can say, among the owners of land and houses here, what they are worth in the market ? Those who have nest-eggs, and can afford to stick to their fancy lots, still hold on m the sure and certain prospect of a rise ; but those who have bought on bills, and can’t meet them, are in a dreadful fix over this assessment affair ; and, of course, the interests of the half of the population in laud will be returned NIL. Ohispa’s will, any how ; because, you see, debts have to be deducted, so the old man has been preparing a “ contrairy account ” with the property assessor with a view to fetching his belongings below the exemp tion figure, and the items therein con tained are of a varied and promiscuous character. Chispa don’t mind at once candidly acknowledging that Host Quill figured in the schedule for Bs. Gd. for sundry pints ; but as a matter of com mon decency he prdtests against his private affairs being inspected by any Go vernment official. The document sup plied wants all particulars of debts due by or to Chispa, of his chairs, his pictures, his- bed-clothes, his crockery, his live stock, (small and large). And Chispa is liable to a fine bigger than his whole be longings if he “ wilfully or negligently makes a false return.” How in the name of the genius of Anglo-Saxon language can a man make a “ negligently false return ?” And why should any of us pararde before the eyes of a Commissioner the value of our household belongings and cherished presents I Away with such a monstrosity of legislation, I say. It is reverting to the dark ages of civilisation when window taxes and hearth money were part of the British revenue. The unusual spectacle of a justice of the peace, a sergeant of | police, and a news paper reporter attempting to break into the Resident Magistrate’s' Court might have been witnessed this morning by any persons who were in that interesting locality about eleven o’clock. The Resi dent Magistrate and his clerk had gone to Longbeach to attend the Assessment Court, taking along with them the keys of the building where justice is usually dis pensed, and without any further notice to the public than a scrap of paper pasted on the door notifying the cause of their absence. There were two or three cases to dispose of, and the defendant in a criminal action yesterday was in ati end ance with his sureties to obtain the bail necessary to liberation from durance vile. One witness had come from Christchurch by the express, to be in attendance in an action against a man for being drunk in a railway carriage ; and taking all things into consideration, there was no alterna tive but to gain admission to the building by foul if not by fair means. Each win dow was tried in turn to ascertain the likelihood of it being raised sufficiently to allow the diminutive form of the news paper reporter to glide through, but after various expedients had, in vain, been resorted to for the purpose of prising the windows open, Sergeant Felton authorised Constable Warring, who came up at the time, to put his colossal frame against the door and burst it open, a command which he put into execution with the greatest of ease. Surely such an instance of house breaking in broad daylight, was never undertaken by such a trio. The difficulties of the administration of justice in Ashbur ton are surely on the increase. It is amusing sometimes to read ac counts of public events, and note the dif ferent yarns told by the different narrators. Last Saturday—Race Day—l attended Black-Eyed Susan’s turn out in the evening in the Town Hall. Next day I read in one report that the audience were very orderly, “ considering in another that they were very rowdy. Well, I don’t know about the orderly part of them, but the disorderly portion of them contributed to my discomfort to the extent of one orange. lam not averse to oranges in the main. But I like to have the peeling of them myself, and the disposal of those peelings. This orange that fell to my share didn’t have any inside at all. It was all peel, and it came against my ear with a bang, the donor being some un known one in the crowd of larrikins standing by the pillars. Then it is not a very orderly proceeding to encourage fifteen year old larrikins to pass remarks on the performers loud enough to be heard all over the hall, nor is it very orderly to make peas go showering about to the annoyance of one’s neigh bors. Prominent amongst the orange peel-throwers and noisy ones was a great big fellow, standing nearly six feet high, with a carrotty head and a mouth like a post office slit. I thus take notice of him just to show that when a man makes him self conspicuous in a public assembly, and wishes to be taken notice of, the most prominent features of his performance cannot fail to catch the eye. If he does not like the critique, he had better change his hall of entertainment Chispa.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1880.

Printed and published by Horace John Weeks and Charles Dixon, at their Printing Office, East Street, Ashburton, s Tuesday, June 8, 1880,



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