Show while the old lad enily wal wilted red the proprietor got even with 1111 her 1 I have bare nothing but a W 50 bill said a lady who had bad bought a spool of cotton at A little notion store on sixth avenue can you change UP it the proprietor took the bill examined it tumbled fumbled in his money drawer while and then calling his boy from the back of the store said here ben take this bill and get it changed and be quick about it for the lady is waiting 11 and the lady did wait until she became nervous and uneasy at hie his prolonged al absence sence finally she ventured to say timidly that boys all rill right he cef seems to me hes bes gone a good while so it seems to me replied the proprietor looking up from the newspaper ho be was reading rig guess hes all right though h hes iles a new boy you see only had him a few days and you cant tell how a boy will turn out until youve tried him cut but be came well recommended he asked the lady growing faint at the thought that he might abscond with her ber money oh yes he lie was well enough recommended his ills father and mother both came and gave him the best beat kind ot of recommendation though I 1 forgot just where they said they lived have you ever ever trusted him before to get a 50 bill chang changed edt bho she asked hesitatingly tf r ta I 1 not this boy he replied but I 1 had bad a boy last summer looked a good deal like III this is one come to think same age ag size same quint squint that I 1 sent to get a 50 bi bill i I 1 changed and rind do you know madam I 1 never seen that boy again nor the money el elthera eit heri therl the lady who had been standing by the c counter 0 un ter felt very weak all of a sudden adden and sank into a chair the proprietor tor absorbed in this utter bitter reminiscence e did not notice her agitation and continued but I 1 beard bean of him though up in canada where some of our aldermen may stumble on him perhaps 41 smiling at hia his little joke living in luxury on his stolen gains I 1 suppose said the lady bitterly no he ile had spent his money and wae was worn to a bradow by remorse you better send somebody to look tor for the boy who took my money suggested the lady now thoroughly alarmed not a bit of use madam said the notion dealer tranquilly it be he skipped hea lies clean out of 0 reach by this time I 1 had bix ua policemen hunting the other boy within 10 minutes after ho he left the store for somehow I 1 had misgivings about him but they find hide bide nor hair of the 7 young u n 9 rascal atwould be just the same inot in this h is case tho only thing that can overtake a boy like that is remorse and I 1 want to bet much on remorse unless I 1 could get big odds 11 fortunately at this moment the boy returned with the desired change and remorse was knocked out of a job after the lady went out the proprietor smiled and remarked that next time she would probably have bavo something smaller than a 34 M bill when she made a 5 cent purchase texas sittings siftings I 1 i |