Embezzlement -- Fiction; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Short stories
Dear old friends, what I went away to achieve I HAVE
achieved, and my heart is near bursting with joy at the
knowledge that once more I am to be one of you—until the
end of life. Friends, I took with me just one hundred and
forty thousand dollars of your money, and I have brought
you back just six dollars for every one that you have
loaned me during that time. Is this work well done? Is it,
at last, a proof of the deep love and reverence I hold for
you all? I have the money in cash, and every depositor of
the old bank, when he calls upon me, will receive just
seven dollars in place of every dollar he had deposited.
But it is not money, but love, that counts, dear friends,
and I ask that you measure me—not by the gift I am making
to Fawcettville—but in that almost immeasurable devotion
which I hold for you all.
Affectionately,
Bobby McTabb.
[Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the April, 1912 issue of
The Red Book Magazine.]
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