Ormond

Chapter 31

Ormond was wakened at the proper hour--went immediately to ----'s bank. It was but just open, and beginning to do business. He had never been there before--his person was not known to any of the firm. He entered a long narrow room, so dark at the entrance from the street that he could at first scarcely see what was on either side of him--a clerk from some obscure nook, and from a desk higher than himself, put out his head, with a long pen behind his ear, and looked at Ormond as he came in. "Pray, sir, am I right?--Is this Mr. ----'s bank?"

"Yes, sir."

With mercantile economy of words, and a motion of his head, the clerk pointed out to Ormond the way he should go--and continued casting up his books. Ormond walked down the narrow aisle, and it became light as he advanced towards a large wi