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Updated: May 19, 2025
Never mind. A bargain's a bargain. The young man drew himself up proudly. 'It is so, Mr. Morrison. And you wished me to paint your portrait, I think, and Mrs. Morrison's. The elder man made a sign of assent. 'Well, I could run up to your place to Bartonbury and paint those in the winter, when I come to see my wife.
'Phoebe, an awful thing's happened! Old Morrison's dead! Look here! And he showed her a paragraph headed 'Defalcations and suicide. It described how Mr. James Morrison, the chief cashier of the Bartonbury Bank, had committed suicide immediately after the discovery by the bank authorities of large falsifications in the bank accounts. Mr.
Morrison had shot himself, leaving a statement acknowledging a long course of fraudulent dealings with the funds entrusted to him, and pleading with his employers for his wife and daughter. 'Great sympathy, said the Guardian reporter, 'is felt in Bartonbury with Mrs. Morrison, whose character has always been highly respected.
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