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Updated: June 27, 2025
"I understood you to declare, sir, that it was your positive intention to devote the proceeds of the sale of those securities to bolstering up your business; and even yesterday you assured me that if they could only be found you would of course hand them over to the assignee, to be devoted to the liquidation of your debts. Am I correct in this surmise, Mr. Graylock?"
Many in town had also suffered as well as the foreign creditors; and the name of Archibald Graylock was being held up to execration in many quarters where he had borrowed small sums, or else bought goods to fill a gap, and for which he had never settled.
There is really no tangible evidence that he took the securities, sir; you must admit that it is only suspicion as yet with you?" returned the cashier, gloomily, gnawing at his upper lip nervously, and playing with his pencil by tapping it on the table. "But he handled the packet, you admit?" declared Mr. Graylock, stubbornly. "So did Mr.
Graylock around this morning; he has not been in the bank, but you have gone out several times, I believe?" asked Mr. Gibbs. "Yes, sir. Only an hour ago I saw him going into the store in company with the gentleman they say is the assignee in charge of the bankrupt stock."
It represents too much to me just now to take any possible chance of losing it," exclaimed Mr. Graylock, eagerly. "Why, certainly, if it will ease your mind any, Archibald. I meant to do it myself just as soon as you had gone.
It seemed to silence the laughter: terror subsided to a tremulous apprehension as though he had been on the verge of something horrible sinking into it for a moment but had escaped. Again he found himself thinking of Graylock, and presently he laughed; then frightened, checked himself.
One of the first persons he met on the road was Ferd Graylock, who stopped to stare after him; he also called out, but Dick was unable to hear what he said, so rapid was his pace he could only wave his hand backward in recognition, and continue to urge the horse along.
The driver said, that several years since the students of Williams College erected a building for an observatory on the top of the mountain, and employed him to haul the materials for constructing it; and he was the only man who had driven an ox-team up Graylock. It was necessary to drive the team round and round, in ascending. President Griffin rode up on horseback.
Graylock buttoning up his coat, with that inscrutable look on his thin face, when he arrived home, and found his mother awaiting him. To his surprise she was smiling as though unusually happy, and this was so unexpected that it gave him a pang to remember how he must bring new shadows upon her heart by telling how he was suspected of having done a terrible thing.
Graylock from way back, but it never entered my head that he was a man who would descend to actual lies to get even with a boy who happened to cut his son out of a job. That was about as mean a thing as any man could ever hint at no proof, but only general suspicion, and on that he would ruin my reputation with my employers.
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