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Bellefonte, Pa., March 13, 1908.
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Harrigan.
By LULU JOHNSON.
Copyrighted. 1508, by Jesser Morgan.
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There was no uproar in the street,
only the long, single file of depositors
waiting patiently in the faint hope that
the bank might open its doors and let
them present at the window the checks
which they nervously fingered.
The scene being enacted under the
great glass dome within the bank pre-
sented a curious contrast to the almost
hopeless inactivity outside. In the di-
rectors’ room the bank examiner and
the president sat at the long table
scanning piles of collateral.
At the bookkeepers’ desks the clerks
were helping the staff of accountants
to examine the huge ledgers, and in
the wire cages the assistant cashier
and his staff were counting over the
stacks of bills and the great bags of
coin, The cashier, Douglas, was not
among those present.
Tim Harrigan looked up from his
desk as the assistant cashier, Mr. War-
ing, passed.
“I wish you'd count these,” he said.
“I've gone over it three times, and it
seems to be $200 short.”
Waring stepped into the cage and
ran over the bills with practiced touch.
A second time he counted them and
then looked up.
“That is just what we are trying to
find out,” he said to Harrigan. “For
months Douglas has been slipping one
or two bills out of a package. It was
easier than falsifying the entries, and
as most of the money was cash reserve
the trick may have been going on for
a year. It was when one of the pack-
ages was paid out by mistake in Doug-
las’ absence that the first suspicion was
aroused. I asked him about it when
he came back from lunch. He gave an
explanation, but when he did not come
down yesterday morning suspicion was
confirmed, and somehow the news got
out, and so the run started.”
“And a precious lot of work it is
making,” said Harrigan crossly as he
thought of the hard labor of the night
before and of the broken engagement
to take Nell to the theater. Waring
laughed knowingly.
“Don’t mind about the girl,” he ad-
vised. “There's every prospect of get-
ting through tomorrow, and you can
take her to the show then. Keep an
eye peeled for short packages and lay
them to one side.”
The assistant cashier passed on, and
Tim Harrigan bent to his work again.
Outside a hand organ grinder had
drawn up at the curb to cheer the
waiting line with popular songs. Tim
gritted his teeth as the familiar strains
of “No Wedding Bells For Me" came
through the ventilators. For a mo-
ment he was half envious of the flee-
Ing cashier.
Douglas had taken plenty of money.
Twenty thousand from the previous
day's receipts were known to be gone.
What else was missing could be told
only when the auditing was accom-
plished. Twenty thousand! Just one
of those crisp bills would enable him
to get married and set up the little
home for which he longed. He and
Nell were saving, but their bank ac-
count grew with such pitiful slowness
The hand organ changed its tune,
and Bascom, in the next cage, laughed
“There's your song, Tim,” he said and
softly began to hum the words of the
chorus:
H-a double r-i-g-a-n spells Harrigan,
I'm proud of all the Irish blood that's in
me.
Divil a word a man can say agin ye,
H-a double r-i-g-a-n ye see,
It's a name that a shame never has been
connected with,
Harrigan—that's me.
Soon the organ was pushed on to
more remunerative stands, but the
strains kept whirling through Tim's
head. It was a catchy air just then
popular in the vaudeville houses where
he and Nell sought their amusement,
and she delighted in singing it to him.
It brought to his mind a picture of
the parlor in the little flat where he
spent mest of his evenings. It was
Colleges & Schools.
clean and neat and had the aspect of a
home, but the tiny flat was small, and
the children overran the place. He
wanted his own home alone with Nell,
Just one of the erisp bills which Doug-
las had taken would have set them up
and have left a tidy balance besides.
Tim gritted his teeth at the thought.
He counted the packages of bills me-
chanically, now and then throwing out
one in which the count was short. He
had completed the count of the hun-
dred dollar bills and was working on
the thousands now.
Here, too, he found discrepancies. It
was as easy to slip a couple of these
notes from a package of fifty as to ab-
stract them from the packages of a
lesser denomination. Douglas’ plan
had been absurdly simple In a way.
Tim wondered that others had not
thought of it. He might have done it
himself with little fear of detection.
He might do it now with absolute im-
punity.
The thought staggered him for an in-
gtant, and he leaned uncertainly
against the side of the cage. On the
polished counter before him were a
score of packages from which bills
were missing. What was to prevent
his slipping a couple of bills from a
perfect package and toss it on the short
count pile? It would be blamed on
Douglas. No one would ever suspect.
One bill would enable him to marry
Nell and fit up a home such as they
had dared to dream of. It required
only a single deft motion. He could
slp the bills off the pile and into his
pocket. The fiction of a legacy would
explain his sudden affluence, and no
one would ever dream of his transgres-
sion,
He was leaning against the wire par-
tition that separated him from Bas-
com's compartment, and the clerk look-
ed up.
“Tired out, Tim?’ he asked kindly.
“It's a tough job. I'll be glad when it's
done. I'm as sick of money as a girl
in a candy store Is of chocolates.”
Tim nodded, and Bascom went on
counting the rolls of gold coin, whis-
tling softly as he worked. Tim started
as the tune caught his attention. It
was “Harrigan,” and Bascom was
whistling the chorus:
H-a double r-i-g-a-n, you see,
It's a name that a shame never has been
connected with,
Harrigan—that's me.
Tim slipped off the high stool and
went over to the water cooler. The
fced water reduced his fever, and he
went back to the dull drudgery of the
count, his momentary madness gone.
He was proud of his name. He never
could face Nell burdened with secret
knowledge of guilt; he never could
offer her a home that was bought with
stolen money. The song had saved
him.
It was late in the afternoon when he
tabulated the results of his count and
took them to the president. The gray
haired old man gave a sigh of relief as
he saw the total.
“It is not as bad as I had feared,” he
sald slowly, passing the memorandum
to the examiner. “Douglas hit us pret-
ty hard. but he did not deal a death-
blow.”
“The bank wlll keep open?’ cried
Tim, a smile spreading over his face.
With the bank closed, marriage with
Nell seemed further away than ever.
“The bank will keep open,” verified
the president. “And that reminds me!
Mr. Waring is to be promoted to the
position of cashier, and he has recom-
mended you for his place as assistant.
It will mean a raise of $300 a year.
You are married?”
Tim shook his head.
“Only engaged.” he said simply. “But
with the raise I can afford to get mar-
ried.”
“Come to me if you want to borrow
money to set up housekeeping with,”
sald the president kindly. “We want
our men to have hopes.
them down.”
As hour later a notice was posted on
the bank doors that the institution
would resume payment in the morning,
and the line of watchers began to drift
away. The last were still lingering
about as Tim Harrigan came jauntily
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down the steps and hurried up the
street with springy stride to bear joy-
ful news to Nell. And as he strode
along the street the smile that played
about his lips gave place to a pucker,
and he whistled—
It's a name that a shame never has been
connected with,
Harrigan—that's me.
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