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Updated: July 26, 2025
He knew well enough what arriving personage it heralded. He hurried out into the corridor and faced the radiant girl who came in from the sunshine. Even one who might question the Prophet's tact would not have blamed his enthusiasm. "Vona, you swear out a warrant and I'll have him arrested," stammered the employer.
Now, Vaniman, how about this chloroform odor? Remember anything about an attempt to snuff you that way?" "No, sir!" "Why don't you wait until to-morrow and let Frank's mind clear up?" Vona pleaded. She had been standing with her arm about the young man's shoulders, insisting on holding her position even when Starr crowded close in making his survey of the cashier's cranium.
The situation made for embarrassment of overwhelming intensity; there was no detail of the affair in front of Usial's cot that had not been canvassed by every mouth in Egypt, including the mouths of the Harnden home. Vaniman made the first move. He bowed to Mrs. Harnden; he knew the mother; she had called on Vona in the bank. "May I meet your father?" he asked the girl.
"Any farseeing man has his ups and downs, Vona. Is it kind to twit your father " She protested more impatiently still. "I am simply presenting the business side of the matter. I say, I have earned some rights to be comfortable in my own home. On the plea of friendship for a man whom I detest, you are proposing to destroy that comfort.
The examiner was obliged to urge Britt to unclasp his hands and follow him before the door was closed and locked against the crowd. Vona had stumbled to a chair; she was staring about her, trying to control her horror and steady her mind so that she might comprehend what had happened. Under a stool she saw a crumpled coat; she leaped from her chair, secured it, and sat down again.
When he met her stare again they were moved by a common impulse mirth; mirth that was born out of their mutual amazement and was baptized by the tears that their merriment squeezed from their eyes. "I am not laughing at Tasper Britt," he gasped, checking his hilarity. "I would not laugh at any man who falls in love with you, Vona. I am laughing at the idea of Tasper Britt writing poetry.
She declared that if her father or mother or I tried to change her mind about coming back here we'd be wasting breath. Go on! I'll tend bank." When Frank returned with Vona a half hour later the president beamed on them through the wicket. He immediately left the bank office, giving the bookkeeper a paternal pat on the shoulder as he passed her, calling her a good girl.
Think of the stories that will be set going, with the bank examiner here, if it's given out that the play had to be postponed because you couldn't leave the books. Such a report might start a run on the bank. Folks would be sure to think there's trouble here. You must go, Vona. It's for the sake of both of us." He went and brought her coat and hat. "I can't go through with the play," she wailed.
She offered neither protest nor advice. At that moment the young man was manifestly in a state of mind which sudden resolution had inflamed with something like desperation. When he strode in through the front door Britt disappeared from the window. Vona, following her lover, put her hand on his arm when he arrived in front of the office door. "Don't you need me with you in there?"
He employed peculiar methods to fit a peculiar case. One afternoon Starr sat and stared for some time at Vaniman. They were alone in the bank. Receiver Waite and Vona had gone away. "Would you relish a little show?" inquired the examiner. Vaniman had nerved himself against all kinds of surprise, he thought, but he was not prepared for this proffer of entertainment.
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