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rss Edina. “ Long residence in foreign lands often conduces to foster indolent habits,” remarked the banker. Edina sighed. Was her mission to bea fruitless one? Taking a moment’s counsel with herself, she resolved to disclose its purport to Edwin Street. And she did so: asking him to give Charles Raynor a stool in his counting-house, and a salary with it. But Mr. Street declined. His very manner seemed to freeze at the request. A young man, brought up as Mr. Charles Raynor had been ’ could not possibly be of any use in a bank, he observed. “Suppose Mr. Atkinson were here, and had complied with my request to put him in?—what then?” said Edina. “In that case he would have come in,” was the candid answer. “But Mr. Atkinson is not here; in his absence I exercise my own discretion ; and I am bound to tell you that I cannot make room for the young man. Don’t seek to put Charles Raynor in a bank: he is not fitted for the post in any way, and might do harm in it instead of good. Take an experienced man’s advice for once, Miss Raynor.” “Tt has spared me the pain of the interview with 4im,” thought Edina, as she said good morning to Mr. Street. “ But what a strange thing that he should go away without seeing Eagles’ Nest | ° \ (To be continued.) HIDDEN TREASURES. Where blooms the flower which doth not fade? Where is the star which e’er coth shine? Tell me, oh muse! in what fair gla ie To seek that flower and star divine! I cannot teach thee where to find These treasures, if thon canst not tell— The star and flower are in the mind, Thrice happy they who guard them well comicbooks.com