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Updated: June 25, 2025
Then, in a place where the river seemed to come to an end, the "Pipe of Peace" drew close in under the western shore, to a landing. Buildings of grey stone clustered and looked over the bank. Close under the bank's green fringes a little boat-house and large clean wooden pier received us; from the landing a road went steeply sloping up. I see it all now in the colours which clothed it then.
I'll watch them closer than ever day or night I'll never leave them. I'll promise you! I've got a good herder now and between us we can handle them." Mr. Wentz shrugged a skeptical shoulder. "You couldn't convince the directors of that. There's none of 'em wants to risk the bank's money with a woman in that kind of business." "But can't you see," she pleaded, "that it's ruin to ship now?
He fought his way through the crowd and ran out of the hall. The thought of facing Symonds Dodd in that crisis or of waiting to be dragged before the furious tyrant that thought lashed the traitor into mad flight. He glanced up at the clock in the First National tower. He had three minutes before the bank's closing time.
Den I reck'n'd I'd inves' de thirty-five dollars right off en keep things a-movin'. Dey wuz a nigger name' Bob, dat had ketched a wood-flat, en his marster didn' know it; en I bought it off'n him en told him to take de thirty-five dollars when de en' er de year come; but somebody stole de wood-flat dat night, en nex day de one-laigged nigger say de bank's busted.
Congress, in my opinion, possess the power to pass a uniform bankrupt law applicable to all banking institutions throughout the United States, and I strongly recommend its exercise. This would make it the irreversible organic law of each bank's existence that a suspension of specie payments shall produce its civil death.
Sherman wondered uneasily whether Folsom could help. He was not a man to save money, and the banker, who made it his business to know what borrowers of the bank's money did, knew that Folsom liked gambling, frequented places where the stakes ran high. Of late he had met heavy losses. However, he was a big man, Sherman reasoned; he should have large resources.
She thrust herself resolutely through the group of men and made a frenzied survey of the bank's interior. Her single quest was for Vaniman; he was nowhere in sight. The books of account were open on the desk, mute evidence for her that he had been interrupted suddenly. She voiced demands in shrill tones, but the men had no information for her. She called his name wildly and there was no reply.
It was curious how everyone in the house had overslept themselves, but that was a detail to be unravelled subsequently. For the moment he must race into his clothes and be downstairs in time to have the bank's doors open to the public by ten. He was nearly dressed when Mrs. Eustace returned to the room. "Charlie, whatever has happened? Bessie can hardly stand.
"What is it?" "Nathan Lawrence, cashier of the bank in Benton, has disappeared with twenty thousand dollars of the bank's money." "What has that to do with father? He hasn't much money in that bank." "Your father is on Mr. Lawrence's bond to the amount of six thousand dollars." "I see," answered Andy, gravely, "How much will he lose?" "The whole of it." This, then, was what had happened.
"Of course you will get him arrested as soon as the siege is over, Cuthbert. I am very glad that he is found." "Well, I don't know that I had quite made up my mind about that. I don't suppose that he made off with any great sum. You see the companies he bolstered up with the bank's money, all smashed at the same time. I don't suppose that he intended to rob the bank at the time he helped them.
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