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When he had finished he only said one word, "wonderful!" but kept repeating it as he watched the cashier devouring the contents of the letter. "Did you ever hear of such a marvelous coincidence in your life, Goodwyn? Here, just after these papers are lost, and suspicion is turned upon Richard, he and his mother fall heir to a neat little sum of money.
Goodwyn may have noticed the look on Dick's face when he had occasion to talk with him, and it may have given his conscience a little stab or so, for he seemed more than ordinarily pleasant to the lad.
Goodwyn dodged in and out, a look of deepest concern on his smooth face, as if the cares of a great State rested upon him. Who could be cheerful under such conditions? Dick sometimes felt a lump rising in his throat as the thought of his being positively accused of stealing the lost papers came before his mind's eye; and it was with more or less difficulty that he carried on his work.
Goodwyn mean enough to look upon an accidental mistake as a crime?
Voices reached them as if the two men were in earnest consultation. Then the door opened and Mr. Goodwyn poked his head out. He looked worried, much more so than Dick had ever seen him before.
Among the active churchmen working for this cause were Rev. Morgan Goodwyn and Bishops Fleetwood, Lowth, and Sanderson.
"Who brought me into the conversation first?" he asked. "I think it was Graylock, for I heard him ask how you were making good, and from the plain sneer in his tone when he spoke I knew the old fellow was just hoping Mr. Goodwyn would say not at all, and that he would have to make a change." "But he didn't don't tell me he said I was a failure?"
Goodwyn, the sudden shock had disconcerted him, and he seemed to be in somewhat of a fog as to the happenings of that day; resolutely he set himself to the task of straightening things out, and going over every little incident that had occurred while he was eating his lunch and the two men were talking in the adjoining room. He had not dared mention this fact as yet to Mr.
Then in the doorway appeared the trim figure of Mr. Goodwyn, showing evident signs of excitement. "It is impossible, incredible, sir! Such a thing could never happen in this institution. There must be some mistake; your informant was in error," he was saying, forgetting that other ears than those of the merchant were open, and could hear all he was saying.
See Goodwyn, The Negroes and Indians' Advocate; Hart, History Told by Contemporaries, vol. i., No. 86; Special Rep. Complaints from men of this type led to systematic efforts to enlighten the blacks. The first successful scheme for this purpose came from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
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