The Young Bank Messenger

obbins looked at eac

xclaimed Joe. "What do

ny thieves around here," ans

ed--and two five-dollar gold pieces were stolen out o

ces?" said Joe quickly. "

n, Joe?" said Lu

amp who was here

es

e pulled out a five-dollar gold piece. Of course I was surprised. 'Where did you get it?' I asked, suspiciously. 'Yesterday you said you had no money.' 'I had that,' he answered, 'but I didn't want to spend it.

did he

arched with thirst that h

take hi

for the boy yesterday. Besides, I wasn't sure the piece was

idn't get

doubt, Ernest, that the gold piece was o

ow. I found it op

have sle

n hour later than

thing el

I could

ur uncle had but ten dollar

he had in

hought him

," said Ern

he reputation of being a miser, with hoa

ncealed, but it was not a large amoun

left penniless, lad;

knew where. It wasn't worth much, and no one ever took the trouble to claim it. When your uncle came here he

hundred

u do? What ar

I haven't had

ou in the store. We wouldn'

for me around here. I'll take the money, and go somewhere.

ill. Was he your

t my relat

e always call

that he was only a servant in my father's family, and t

avor the old man at all. You look

," said Ernest sadly. "He was

ou whether you

ew York State. He is a rich man. He inherited th

d that

r against my father, and so

nantly. "I'd like to have him in my hands

of him, Luke," said Joe Marks. "But we m

get hold of that

'll find his way back

ter was placed in it, dressed as he was at the time of his death. There was an itinerant minister who preached in the village once in four weeks, but he was away now, and so there could be no religious ceremony beyond reading a chapter

nt must be given of

the use of money unless it could be converted into what his soul desired? But there was no way of changing the coin except at the store of Joe Marks. To ask any of the villagers would only have excited surprise

whisky. He must walk there. It was not a pleasant prospect, for the tramp was lazy and not fond of walking, though he had been com

ected stomach rebelled. He tightened a girdle about his waist, and walked on in great discomfort. He had perhaps go

ting on a pitiful expression,

, scanning him critically

t I was once a t

't look

I acknow

your property, if

my brother. It swept o

man lost five hundred dollars, nearl

m hungry, v

tle, and I'll give you wha

obeyed wit

efore him, and he ate them almost voraciously. There had been times in

he said, "you ha

e woman. "A man that'll eat cold vittles,

ad money to

ou're welcome. Can I do

am a temperance man, I take whisky f

and if we had I wou

dam. You must not th

I think. You can't

nd the next day retraced his steps to old Peter's cabin. He felt satisfied that so