NOT TO BE FOUND, 
seeing this hope, for the time being, was become ut- 
terly hopeless, in a fit of desparation he bolted. 
A owed to B fifty pounds and paid it by a promissory 
note on, or at, the O. B. 0. due in three months. 
B had a credit at the bank and a good name, he 
cashed the note at a small discount, and the money was 
spent. Three months passed away, and so did the re- 
membrance of the transaction, But it was recalled to - 
his memory in a rather unpleasant way, in receiving 
a letter from the bank, informing him the note was 
protested for non-payment, and charges were placed to 
the debit of his account, which was overdrawn, and 
an immediate adjustment of the same was requested. 
This request having been complied with, B receives the 
promissory note back again and finds himself just as he 
was, only minus payment of notary feeSj and probably also 
a little bank interest. He sits down and writes a long letter 
to A complaining of the little affair, which had put him 
so much out. After the lapse of some time (he letter 
comes back, endorsed. “ Not to be found on making 
further inquiry it was found he had left the country. 
Now this was a very mean thing for any one to 
do, and just shows what a hardening thing, and 
debasing to the general character, is debt. The x)ro- 
per course for A to have adopted, would bav^ been- 
boldly to have informed his creditor of bis unfortun, 
ate and hopeless position, and bravely told him, if 
he succeeded elsewhere, he would pao up, that there 
was no chance of ever doing so by remaining here. 
B would see he was an hon orable man, ' and enquire, 
what was the use of detaining him. None. Again, 
A owes B twenty pounds and gives him a promiss- 
ory note for the amount, due at the 0. B. C. in 
three months. A few weeks after the Ltfcle truiis- 
uction, A writes his creditor in a fair, open aii'l very 
straightforward manner, that he is leaving the country, 
but that it will make no difference at all to B in 
the small pecuniary transaction, because his friend 
O has promised to take up and over ali his diehls, 
and see them all fairly settled. Now 0 is a inan 
apparently of some su'ostance and stability, and past all 
manner of doubt, very much better security than A, 
and B is rather pleased than otherwise at t’le trans- 
ference. But to make sure he writes C on the siibjenb, 
who replies that it is “all right.” When A’s pro- 
missory note become due, C takes it up. idow d> 
you think ? Why, just by sending B another drawn 
in his own name, so that all the difference co.isists 
in B holding C’s note instead of A’s ! Well, thinks 
B, it will come all right in the end, but it does 
not, for 0, the man of some substance and stabili ye 
has long been in difficulties himself, which hav, 
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