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CHANGE FOR A RANK NOTE.
Archie Norton was a happy inan that
evening. He whs paying his last visit to
Marian Hilbert, who was to become Marian
Norton to-morrow.
As the two sat together in the twilight,
murmuringdclicioiis words of joy and hope,
they were interrupted by tlm entrance of a
servant with the announcement that two
gentlemen wished to see Mr. Norton imme
diately.
“Tell them they must wait till another
time,” said Archie; “that 1 am particu
larly engaged at present.”
“ But I was to say, sir, if you please,
that the business is very pressing and they
must see you.”
With an impatient gesture Archie follow
ed the servant into the passage, where he
found himself confronted by two rough
looking men.
“Mr. Norton, 1 suppose?” one of them
accosted him.
Arcliio bowed assent, adding, with a
touch of haughtiness, a request to he in
formed of the object of their visit.
“It's along o' that missing money,” re
plied the inan, curtly.
It is necessary to explain that a packet
of hank notes, brought by a depositor a
few days before to the bank in which Ar
chie Norton was a clerk, had disappeared
mysteriously from the receiving teller's
desk, and though the most thorough search
had been made, no trace was found of the
lost money.
Suspicion pointed naturally to some of
the employees, hut fastened upon no par
ticular one. All that could he done under
the circumstances was to procure a com
plete description of the notes from the de
positor, who, fortunately, had preserved a
memorandum of their denominations and
numbers, and to keep strict watch through
all available channels, with a view to dis
covering by whom any of them might he
put in circulation.
“The missing money!'’ exclaimed Ar
chie; “has any clew been gained to it?”
“ There has,” the man answered, “ and
you're wanted right away.”
Archie had been among the most active
iu efforts to solve the mystery, and express
ed his readiness to accompany his visitors
at once, and render ail the aid in his pow
er, asking them t<s/Vait till ho should step
in and excuse tats absence.
“ Quite impossible, 1 ’ said the spokesman
cf tbn two, in a low, dogged tone, at the
same time placing his hand on Archie’s
arm and leading him out of ear-shot. “ Can
not suffer you out of our sight, you see.”
“ Can't suffer me out of your sight
“ No ; seein' as you're our prisoner.”
“Your—your prisoner!” the young man
gasped, stupefied with amazement.
“Yes; and onless you want to make a
scene,” rejoined the other, “the best thing
you can do is to come along quietly.”
“But what is the charge?” asked Ar
chie ; “surely 1 am not suspected ”
“ We don't suspect nothin’,” interrupted
the officer, “which that aren’t our business,
which is only to take your body.”
Seeing further parley was useless, with
what composure he could command, Ar
chie, after bidding the servant explain to
Miss Gilbert that urgent business called
him away suddenly, accompanied his cus
todians in silence.
At the police office he learned that a note
which he had paid out that evening had been
identified as one of those stolen from the
bank, which fact had led to his present ar
rest.
A search was then made of the pnsoncr,
in whose pocketbook was found a number
of bank notes, every one of which was
proved, by its number and other distinctive
features, to belong to the missing packet !
At this revelation Archie Norton stood
overwhelmed and speechless. The stun
ning force with which the blow had fallen
bereft him of all power to make an explana
tion, if, indeed, he had any to make.
Next morning I received a summons from
the prisoner, with whom I had been on
terms of friendly intercourse, and one of
whose wedding guests I was to be. I found
him in his cell, in a half-dazed, bewildered
state.
“Surely,” I said, “you must be able to
account for your possession of the notes
found upon you.”
“ Certainly I am,” he answered; “ 1 got
them yesterday from my uncle's executor,
Mr. Gordon, in payment of a legacy. I
was too much confused last night to men
tion that.”
“ Mr. Gordon is a very methodical man
of business,” I replied, “ and may be able
to identify the notes he paid you. In that
case, the affair will be easily cleared up ;
for no one will suspect Mr. Gordon, and if
he remembers from whom he received the
notes, not only will your innocence be es
tablished. but a clew may be gained to the
discovery of the real culprit.”
“ By-the-way,” I added, “ in whose com
pany were you yesterday after receiving
the money from Mr. Gordon?”
“In Ralph Grayson's,” he answered.
“Indeed!” I said, a little astonished;
for Ralph Grayson, a fellow clerk of Ar
chie's had been his rival aspirant to the
hand of Marian Hilbert, and their relations
had been far from friendly. “Then you
and he have become reconciled ?”
“ Oh. yes.” he replied ; “ he came home
with me yesterday, and remained till 1
started on my visit to Marian.”
• ‘‘Where was your pocketbook mean
time?”
“ Why, in my pocket, of course,” said
Archie, looking astonished at the question.
“ All the time?” I continued.
“ All the time,” he answered —“thatis.
all except a few minutes that I was in my
bedroom changing my dress. I had taken
out my pocketbook just before to consult
a paper, and laid it on my Bitting-room
table.”
“And (irayson was in the sitting
room ?’ ’
“ Certainly; but why do you ask ? You
do not think, surely ’* —
“ I think nothing at present,” I replied,
and encouraging my friend to hope for the
best, took my leave.
My first step was to ascertain the num
bers and description of the notes found in
Archie's possession; the next to call on
Mr. (Jordon.
“You paid Mr. Norton some money
yesterday,” I began.
“ I did,” was the answer.
“ Did you keep a memorandum of the
numbers and denominations of the notes?”
“It iH my invariable custom,” said Mr.
Gordon, “and I followed it in this case."
“Then you will be able to toll whether
this is a correct list and description of
them,” I continued, handing Mr. Hordon
a memorandum of the notes found on
Archie.
After consulting his book, lie shook his
head.
“ No ; these are not the notes.”
My first hope was dashed, hut I had still
another.
“ Will you suffer me to take a copy of
the description of the notes you did pay
Mr. Norton?” I asked.
The permission was given and the copy
made.
Now for hope number two.
That evening found me in social compan
ionship with Ralph Grayson. We had not
been intimate hitherto; for Ralph was of
a disposition too secretive and selfish to
admit of much cordiality between us. For
once, however, we got along famously.
Ralph was in gleeful mood, notwithstand
ing his friend's trouble.
“Poor Archie!” he said; “it's a very
ugly case they have against him.”
“ Very ugly,” I assented.
“ I'm afraid he's guilty,” continued
Ralph.
“ It certainly looks so at present,” I an
swered. “By the way,” I added, care
lessly, “ could you oblige me with change
for a twenty-dollar bill, Mr. Grayson?”
Mr. Grayson could and did, in the slinpe
of four fives. I excused myself to my
companion, and took my leave as soon as
I could without rudeness.
On examining the four bills received
from (i ray son. 1 found them to correspond
exactly with four of those described in Mr.
Gordon's memorandum of the notes paid
to Archie. Hope number two was realized,
and the problem solved !
1 had previously learned from Archie
that he had paid out no money between
the time of receiving the sum from Mr.
Gordon, and that at which lie separated
from Grayson; and that the note which
led to his arrest, he had paid at a jeweler’s,
while on his way to visit Marian, for a ring
which was to figure in the coming cere
mony. It was clear now that Ralph Gray
son had embraced the opportunity ottered
him of replacing the contents of Archie’s
pocketbook with an equal amount of the
stolen money, without reflecting that means
might exist of tracing and identifying the
former.
Acting on this conviction, I lost no time
in procuring a warrant for Grayson's ap
prehension, in whose possession most of
the purloined notes were found; and,
within a brief space, he was in Archie's
cell, and the latter was at Marian's side,
consoling her for the hours of bitter suffer
ing she had passed on his account.
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RAILROAD.
On and after MONDAY. MAY 2Wh, 1876, th#
Passenger Trains over the Greenville aad OolnmoiH
Railroad will he run daily, Sundays excepted, by th*
following schedule:
MAIN STEM.
IT TKAIX NO. I—COLUMBIA TO CMKXVIIXK.
j.eave Columbia at 7:15 a. m
Leave Alston 9:30
Leave Newberry 10:50
Leave Hodges 2:17 p. m
Leave Belton IdlO
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DOWN TKAIX NO. 4—OKXfcnLUl TO COLLMBIA. f
Leave Greenville at i. 8:05 *• irt
Leave Belton d:55
Leave Hodges
Leave Newberry ’■ -fcp m
Leave Alston *2O
Arrive at Columbia | 5:55
ANDERSON BRANCH AN I BLUE RIDGE R. 3 :.
DOWN THAN
Leave Walhalla at f... 6-L5 a. m
Leave Seneca City 6:40
Leave Perrvvillo 7:00
Leave Pendleton 4 - 7:50
Leave Anderson 8:50
Arrive at Belton at... - 9:40
UP ik Aol
Leave Bid ton at 4:00 p. n
Leave Anderson j l . 5:00
Leave Pendleton '] 6:00
Leave Perryvflle 6:35
Leave Seneca City 6:45
Arrive at 'Walhalla at.. 7:15
Notice.—No Train wijfl pss or leave a statioil
named before the time sparifid. but the company del
not guarantee their train* to we or arrive at the}
time stated. Passengers pins understand that the .
will be subject to snob dclas as m?y unavoidably
occur.
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Ger-ral Superintendent.
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gOUTH CAROijrXY RAILROAD.
Charleston (.. December 19. 1875.
Change of schedule tog i into effect <m and after
Sunday, December 20tb:
DAT PASBIX IEI TRAIN. j
(Sundays 1 Ixtepted.) 1
Leave Charleston sit.. 9:00 a. m 1
Arrive at Columbia at 5:00 p. m
Leave Columbia at b:4O a. m
Arrive at Charleston a: .4:20 p. m
NIGHT KXriIESS-M'COMMODATION TRAIN.
(My.)
Leave Columbia at. 7:15 p. m
Arrive at Charleston it, .6:45 a. m
Leave Charleston at. 7:10 p. in
Arrive at Columbia a 6:30 a. m
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cept Sundays) with ITj and Down Day Passenge
Trains. F ,
Day and Night Trai . connect at Augusta wit.
Georgia Railroad, Mafco an ,( Augusta Railroad am
Central Railroad. .
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S. S. Solomon, Sujpcntendent.
A TLA NT A an: RICHMOND Alßj
LINE lULROAD.
Ai.anta, Ga., June 4, W”®*
GOD> EAST. t
Passenger Train, No. 1 Arrive. . ™ n t
Atlanta • 'l 54011
Seneca 7 54 pm "
Greenville 9 41 pm 0 < P
Spartanburg 4. ... 11 05 pm 1* * •
Charlotte ....... 203 a m
com WEST..
Passenger Train, No. 2 Arrive. 1o a
N. C. R. R. Junction * Lj,*
Charlotte ; .4 a M
Spartanburg 511 sm r<os W
Greenville 637 a m j! 31 il
Seneca 8 31 am
Atlanta 1 30 pm t ,
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PASSESGER tJTxS *('!'EDl' 1
DAY. PP'tAINS. VMffi
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2:55 piu Arrive Athens SH
4:00 p ni Atlanta JH9|
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: a O' }-*ave Janta "C 3-'§SH
-4:0" !• 01 Arrive vttMi M ’ a -
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