This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXVI The news of the failures which convulsed the City on that Black Monday did not reach Aldersbury until late on the Tuesday--the tidings came in with the mails. But hours before that, and even before the opening of the bank, things in the town had come to a climax. The women, always more practical than the men and less squeamish, had taken fright and been talking. In many a back parlor in Maerdol, and the Foregate, and on the Cop, wives had spoken their minds. They wouldn't be scared out of asking for their own, by any banker that ever lived, they said. Not they! "Would you, Mrs. Gittins?" quoth one. "Not I, ma'am, if I had it to ask for, as your gocdman has. I'd not sleep another night before I had it tight and right." "No more he shall! What, rob his children for fear of a stuffy old man's black looks? But I'll see him into the bank myself, and see that he brings it out, too! I'll answer for that!" "And you're in the right, ma'am, seeing it's yours. Money's not that easy got we're to be robbed of it. Now those notes with CO. on them they're money anyways, I suppose? There's nothing can alter them, I'm thinking. I've two of them at home, that my lad" "Oh, Mrs. Gittins!" And superior information raised its hands in horror. "You understand nothing at all. Don't you know they're the worst of all? If those shutters--go--up at that bank," dramatically, "they'll not be worth the paper they're printed on! You take my advice and go this very minute and buy something at Purslow's or Bowdler's, and get them changed. And you'll thank me' for that word, Mrs. Gittins, as long as you live." Upset was not the word for Mrs. Gittins, who had thought herself outside the fray. "Well, they be thieves and liars!" she gasped. "And Dean's too, ma'am? You don't mean...
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