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"Bad luck ter yez!" mentally ejaculated Pat, who fate had draithin earshot

"What do you intend to do withsullen under Mr Arnot's harsh, bitter words

"Do! What is done with clerks who steal their employers' money?"

"I did not steal your money," said Haldane impetuously

"Where is it, then?" asked Mr Arnot, with a cold sneer

"Be careful, now," said the police excited, and you may say what you'll wish you hadn't"

"Mr Arnot, do you o abroad to all the world that I have deliberately stolen that thousand dollars?" asked the young man desperately

"Here are the empty envelopes Where is the money?" said his employer, in the same cool, inexorable tone

"I met two sharpers from New York, who made a fool of me--"

"Made a fool of you! that was ih

"Dastard that you are, to strike a man when he is down," thundered Haldane wrathfully "Since everything ot to drinking with these men from New York, and missed the train--"

"Be careful, now; think what you are saying," interrupted the policees me hat amounts to a bald theft, and in a way that all will hear of the charge, and shall I not defend my self?"

"O, certainly, if you can prove that you did not take the money--only remember, what you say will appear in the evidence"

"What evidence?" cried the bewildered and excited youth with an oath "If you will only give me a chance, you shall have all the evidence there is in a sentence These blacklegs froentle the train, we agreed to spend the evening together They called for cards, and they won the rown more swarthy at the epithet of "dastard," but he coolly waited until Haldane had finished, and then asked in his former tone: "Did they take the money from your person and open the envelopes, one carefully, the other recklessly, before they won it?"

Guided by this keen questioning, ht, and Haldane saw hie, certainly, and he remembered hoas done He trerew very pale For a moment he was so overwhel consequences, that his tongue refused to plead in his behalf At last he stammered: "I did not mean to take the money--only to borrow a little of it, and return it that saot me drunk--I was not myself But I assure you it will all be returned I can--"