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CIIArTER I.
"bart, Maitland Dart fe Co."
So the name stood upon the great
brass plate ; and iu these tintues had
the business of the bank had been pru
dently and profitably conducted for
as many year as the majority of the
inhabitants of Highborough could re
call. Trade panics had laid wnrte many
another long-established firm : bank
ruptcy had swooped unexpectedly r.n
many a house where wealth seemed as
limitless as here; but the bank of
Messrs. Dart, Maitland, Dart, & Co.,
held its head high above all treacher
ous waters, and stood unmoved and
utterly secure after the heaviest gales
had passed.
The uame of the firm was a passport
of trust and reliance, as well as a
prompt introduction to the first socie
ty of the country ; and the present rep
resentatives were these : Maurice Durt,
the senior partner, a handsome man of
fifty years, who imagined the wishes,
the weakness, and the hopes peculiar
to ether men, could not move him
now ; and Walter Maitland, both in
appearances and manner, a strong con
trast to his senior partner. Though
but ten years younger, he looked near
er thirty than forty, and the frankness
of his blue eyes, and the gay words so
prompt upon his lips, seemed doubly
frank and doubly gay, contrasted with
his senior's reticence and gravity. The
third partner was one In name alone.
Mis father's death had left him a rich
sharo in the bank, but his only inter
course with it was the polite periodi
cal acknowledgment of its haviDg
swept away the debts, which were the
worst enemies he had had to fight
since he entered the army. About the
"Co." there was of course that vague
ness inseparable from the cognomen.
Iu the outer world it was supposed
that an unlimited number of people
had invested their savings or their pat
rimony on purpose to be considered
"of the firm." Hut among the clerks
only one case was kuowu with certain
ly.. He was neither the oldest nor the
roost experienced, though the most
cheerful, perhaps, the most industrious.
He had deposited with the firm the
sum which bis futher, through a forty
years' course of valued and profitable
managership, had accumulated to be
queath to him ; and so, being enabled
to draw what doubled his salary as a
clerk, Tom Leslie looked upon him
self as a partner "f no mean order,
and built lofty castles for a time when
his name should stand upon (ho brass
plate otherwise than as "Co." Cheer
fully and constantly he erected these
edifices ; but to attempt to lay their
foundations on terra firma, either by
saving or speculating, never entered
Tom's head. With his mother a lit
tle old lady as hopeful and cheerful
and trustful as he was himself Tom
lived in a pretty white cottage beyond
the town ; and here he had flowers all
the yeur round, and birds that saug
in the gloomiest weather, and a piano
on which he was no menu performer.
And as regularly as Saturday morn
ing came around, lorn taking his hat,
I would say, iu tfie most
natural man-
lie,'
"I think we should like a couple
of the y linger fellows out to dinner
to morrow shouldn't we, mother ?
Their salaries are not like mine; and
things are dear, you say."
True their salaries were not like his,
but then he would not huve the small,
bright house, nor the small, bright
mother denied any comfort be could
think nt, and so there was never one
penny of Tom'a salary left when the
year was up.
Once or twice Mrs Leslie would in
quire ruefully where her soa picked
up the dinnerlets clerks whom be de
lighted to bring home to supper or
as be called it, "to a little music."
liut her genial hospitality was, after
all, as prompt as his, and so, though
she kept the accounts, there was, as I
said, never a penny of Tom's salary
left when the year was up. "He thinks
that that 400 of his is a king's reve
nue," thought Mrs. Leslie, one Satur
day morning, watching her son cross
the road, diop his gift iuto the expec
tant baud ot the crossing sweeper, and
turn at the corner to nod to her. "He
will soon expect me to adopt a few
young men whose salaries are less than
his own. If be had but inheiited his
father's saving nature !" She tried to
regret this dolefully; but, after all,
she could not help the warmth of per
feet satisfaction filliug her eyes.
Even his practical futher had re
joiced that his nature was his moth
er's from the time that nature begun
to aisert itself iu little Tnm-7"Liule
Tom" then to his parents ; "Little Tom
Leslie" afterward among his schoolfcl
lows; "Little Leslie" uow umong hi
fellow clerk.
On this particular Saturday niotu
iug, as he walked to the bank, Tom
loitered a little on one street a quiet
street of haudsome private house), be-
fsro one of which Ftood a couple of
SEPTEMBER 12, 1877.
cabs piled with boxes. Tom waited
long enough to be sure that the cabs
bore nothing but luggage. Then he
walked briskly on, and, entered the
bank excitedly, told his fellow clerks
of tho arrival of the Colonel's house
hold, and for fully five minutes forgot,
in his excitement, to add his genial in
vitation for the morrow.
M hen the coming of the regiment
had been discussed, and Tom's pleas
ant invitation accepted, he turned to
his desk, not to loiter again through
out the day. An hour afterward Mr.
Dart drov-j up, and with a quiet "Good
morning 1" passed through the bank
to his own private room. Here pres
ently Mr. Maitland joined, him, and,
standing before tbe lire, discussed var
ious items of town uew3 among them,
of Course the arrivp.l of tho regiment.
"Colonel Conyngham has only one
daughter. We must help to introduce
her. Young Dart having once belong
ed to the regiment, gives it, as it were,
a claim upon us."
v "The Colonel's daughter will need
but little introduction," remarked
Maurice Dart, quielly.
CHAPTER II.
"Dart, Maitland, Dart & Co."-
The names stood unaltered on tho
great plate ; yet excepted the sleep
ing partner, away in India now each
one represented by that sign was per
fectly aware that a great alteration
had been growing in himself ever since
Colonel Conyngham and his daughter
had been living in Highborough. The
strong bank walls no longer limited
his hope aud ambition. Beyond them
stood revealed a home of love, and
ease, and sunshine, brightly possible ;
and iu this future the only mission of
the good old bank was to furnish the
home with luxury.
It was a winter night. The bank
windows were bolted and barred, the
great books were locked away in the
trusty safes, and the maungcr was
asleep up stairs, with the loaded blun
derbuss beside his bed. But in his
brilliantly-lighted drawing-room at
home the senior partner eit alque a
striking-looking man in bis evening
dress, with the hot house flowers fad
ing in his coat. Tho room had beeu
filled with guests up to this time, but
now Mr. Dart sal alone before the fire,
buried in thought 'which deepened
minute by minute, until the door was
opened, and Walter Maitland re-entered
the room he hud but lately left.
"I could not help comiug back," he
said, beginning hurriedly to speak, a3
if tho words farced themselves from
him in his nervous haste. "There was
ono thing about which I must speak
tt you to-night about which I have
wanted to speak to you far a longtime.
I feel" ho was leaning against the
chimneypiece opposite his friend, and
looking with interne scrutiny into his
quiet face "that I have betu dream
ing a dream which a .word of yours
could at this moment dispel. Tell me
if it is so. It will be a greater kind
ness than your silence, thong i tho
kindness is sure to be the motive ot
that. Tell mo at ouce, Dart. It cau
not be very pleasant to you to see mv
anxiety. You are lar to good a fel
low to fool pleasure in that."
"What am I to tell you ?" inquired
luaurice xari, wiinout meeting his
cumnauion'a eyes.
"Surely you know I I said to my
self that when I met Isabel here in
your house, to night, I would find out
if my fears were well-grounded ; aid if
I could noi discover, I would ask you
for the truth before I left. Dart ! end
this caring suspense for me. It has
been growing through all these months
side by side with my love, aud has be
Cuiue unbearable at last 1"
Maurice raised his head now, and
mot his companion's anxious question
ing eyes. "I am glad you have spok
ed, Maitland !" he said. "I have guess
ed at your anxiety, while I have felt
my own ; and I have often wished to
break the silence we have hell on this
one point. I fancied you had some
thing to tell me. I tuncied so but now,
when I saw you re-enter the room."
"Indeed, no 1" exclaimed Walter
with his usual frankness. "I wish to
neaveu I had. I wish I hud dared to
fcay that Isabel had given me encour
agement enough io make me even
hope. And I could not ak her to to
love me while I felt that you knew
how useless It would be."
"I do not know," returned Dart
his words sounding very slowly after
Waller's eagerness, yet ull his self
co mttut nd failing to bide their new
ring nf hope, "l.suhe! has uever heard
a word of love from me. She is gentle
aud kind aud winning always ; but 1
cannot read beyond."
"To me, too, she is bright and peas
ant always," put in Maitland, restless
ly ; "ami I can discover nothing more.
I fancied you could put me oi.t of one
phase of this uneei tainty."
"Aud you are very glad to find I
cannot;" said the elder partner. And
then their eyes met, with a smile which
wai straugciy wistful for i-'ueh strong
$2 PEU ANNUM.
and manly faces.
"Dart 1" said Mr. Maitland, "you
are tho elder man, the richer the bet
ter, too. You shall speak first. Do
it a? soon as you can."
"Seniority has no claim in such a
case as this," said the senior partner.
"We can wait."
"I can wait no longer 1" put in tho
younger man, impatiently. "Anything
will bo better than this suspeuse.
Why on earth should we wait ? Isabel
knows us thoroughly, now. She knows
we are both too old for this lovo of
ours to bo anything but deeply earn
est. She knows enough of us and our
position to make her decision easy to
her. So let us know the worst, or
best. You have the right to speak
first."
"I will not tako it 1" said Mr. Dart,
speaking more quickly than he had
yet done. "Let us write. Let us write
together."
A few rainute3 silence, while Walter
thought this oer leaning his bend
on the arm which rested on the chimney-piece.
"Let that be decided," urged Mau
rice. "We will write to-morrow. Let
her receive the two letters together,
that she may think of us together.
Promise me your letter shall bo reidy
for to-morrow's post."
"I promise," said Maitland, raising
his head again. "Thank you for this
arrangement."
CHAPTKR III.
The fire roared aud crackled cheeri
ly in the private room at the bank, but
neither of the partners had arrived.
"I never krew him so late," re
marked Tom Leslie, as if finishing
aloud a puzzling conjecture.
"Who? Old Dart?"
"Mr. Dart? Yes.'
"Leslie feels it incumbent on him to
uphold the dignity ot his partners,"
put in another clerk : "His breast
swells proudly with a fellow-feeling."
"What an-idle set you are this mor
ning !" remarked Tom, turning from
his desk with the quick, kindly smile,
which made his face so pleasant to look
upon. "As soon as I am senior part
ner I shall give you all a sweeping dis
missal." Tho 1'iBteners laughed, enjeying the
absurdity of the idea ; and one or two
questioned him, with mock anxiety, as
to the occasion. Through all the
laughter Tom pursued his work, and
Dart noticed this when he entered the
bank ; and though it was very curtly
that he answered Tom's quiet greeting,
yet before be reached the inner door he
turned and spoke to him.
"Cold outside, Leslie. Keep up
good fires. It is hard," bo muttered
to himself, "to pass him without a
word." Then Mr. Dart let the spring
door close behind him, and, sitting
down in his office chair, leaned on one
arm only as very calm men do when
they are ill at ease, ns well as tired.
He was sitting so, looking moodily
down into the fire, when Mr. Maitland
entered the room. Tho senior partner
did not turn to greet him ; and even
when Walter stood upon the rug beside
him, he did not veuture to meet his
eyes.
"Maurice," begnn the younger man,
"I suppose I may congratulate you. It
is rather hard ; yet no one ought to do
it so heartily as I -I who know what
a good fellow you are, and what what
a wife you have won."
A glance of surprise into his friend's
face, and then Mr. Dart spoke iu a few
words, as was his custom.
"She has refused me, Maitland."
"Refused you!"
Walter repeated the words, though
not incredulously. Only truth, he
knew could have weighed them so sad
ly. "She has refused me, too !" he
said. "She bus never cared for me
but as a friend simply aud only as a
friend."
"In a few kind words to me," said
Mr. Dart, without looking up, "she
told me she had given her love else
where. I wa3 trying, when you came
in, to prepare myself to tell you, 'I re
joice in your happiness, Maitland.'
And now you-
-you como and say t'
10
same to me.
liaried in one long; sad thought, tho
paulers in the good old firm sat in
their silent room, while tho work and
the pleasure of the world went on with
out. But the day's duties had to be
irono through, and these were not the
men to shun them selfishly.
"I suppose we had better settle with
Leslie about his holiday," remarked
Mr. Maitland that afternoon, sendincr
fcj summon Tom to tho nartner" room
y will lose every glimpse of summer
"He should not have postponed ins
holiday. He had bis choice. Well,
Leslie! when do you wish to sturt?"
inquired the senior puitner, wheu Tom
entered the room.
"You said about the middle of Octo
her. and this is the 20th."
"Thank you, Mr. Dart! but if it
would make no difference, 1 would
rather talo my holiday fmm tbe 20th."
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All bills for yearly advcrtisomonU or
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"Then it is to bo hoped you are go
ing on a visit," remarked Walter Mait
land, pleasantly ; "for November days
are not the pleasantest for a tourist."
"I nru not going on a tour, Bir."
Tom hesitated only a moment ; then
both c f li i 3 listeners were conscious of
anew earnestness in his voice: O'l
should like to tell you, gentlemen, why
I want my holiday then. The 20th is
to be tay wedding-day."
Mr. Dart returned quietly to his'
writing. Mr. Maitland arose from hi
seat and moved to the fire, turning his
back to Tom. IJcforo the eyes of both
tho partners there hovered a face which
had led them, too, to dream of a possi
ble wedding-day dreams froci which
they had so lately been awakened.
It would bo hard, with these memo
ries rising thick, to talk to their favor
ite clerk of bis good fortune ; yet it
was not in Walter Maitland's nature
to lot any selfish feeling prevent him.
"Indeed, Leslie !" he said, "I ant
surprised ; but very glad, of course, to
hear it. I prognosticate every happi
ness for yeur .wife. Of course I can
not do bo for jou until I know who BUa
is.
"You know her well, gentlemen,'
said Torn, flushing. "Her lather, Col
ouel Conyngham, is my mother's cou
ein. We havo rarely visitod them ex
cept when they were alone, because
at my mothers cottage, of course, we
could not entertain Aeir guests. Wo
have always been as old friends and
relatives should bo ; and I have al
ways loved Isabel. But it was neces
sary for us to wait a little. Though it
would be difhcult for you to realize tho
fact, gentlemen, a marriage is an ex
pense, and dobt "
"iTou can go, Leslie," remarked Mr.
Dart, without raising his "head.
"And tbe holiday, sir?"
"Take your holiday whan you choqse,
only don't make such a fuss about it."
"And is there nothing more you in
tend jd to say to me, Mr. Maitland ?"
inquired Tom.
"I should say," remarked Walter,
with an angry gleam in his eyes, "it is
an irreparable mistake you are mak
ing, to marry on your income, unless
you had chosen a wife in your own po
sition and used to such a life as your
mother's."
"My mother's life was such a life aa
T-l l" . T ill .1 , rrt
isaoeis, at isaoel s age, said lorn,
and for a moment his face was really
handsome in its flush of hoiiest pnle ;
"and Isabel has known w hat my moth
er's life is for many a year past.
Would I marry her under any false
pretenses?"
"I presume, then, that Mies Conyng
ham knows tho extent of your iu
como?" asked Maitland with compres
sed lips : "or have you, in your foolery,
been representing yourself as a partner
in the bank ? Her eyes ara opeu to tho
folly of what she is doing, eh ?"
"She knows everything, sir," rejoin
ed Tom, his eyes much puzzled, and a
little angry, "and she does not call it
folly."
" You can go."
The clerk left the room, closing the
door quietly behind him.
"They must have been harassing let
ters," be said to himself, trying to ac-
count for the , partners' impatience.
"They have a good deal of anxiety
which we subordinates are spared.
And thinking this, he took a scat and
wrote away more diligently than ever,
while his fellow-clerks wondered at his
mood.
"Le:-lio ought to go."
Those were the words which at lact
broke tho stillness of the room which
Tom had left.
"Yea."
Then tho day's work went on to a
close, and the partners, separating on
tho bank steps, went their several
ways, each one thinking yery long
iugly of one to whom both had been
fiiilhful Tlila ii-na i 1ia fire, nlrrht for
.Ma. ....... .v..." .. V" ...w M'.av sv.
many months which cither had spent
without these bright, vague dreams of
what his home might be with Isabel at
its head ; and their hearts were filled
with resentment against the winner of
the prize which they had coveted.
"You knew this morning that she was
to marry some one else why should
your thoughts be harder, now that you
know who has won her?" So a voice
seemed arguiug with them, but below
all the angry thoughts surged on. "
"For him to be the one to gain her
he, a paid servant in tho bank 1"
CHAPTER IV.
Wheu Mr. Dart reached the bat!
next morning, worn and harrassod ti
ter a sleepless night, he found th'
Maitland, contrary to his usual cu:
loin, had arrived before him. Thoup'1
tho two friends greeted each other u
usual, a most unusual silence settle
presently upon them both. Inventus'
ly the senior partner, making an eflor
rciunrkeil ou the coldness of the we.,
ther; aud his companion, putting div
u letter which he hel:l, answered It
urely. But his pleasaut blue eyes v
restless and rather dim, the moj:
.oNrirmu) on rocimt pacik '