his face and grinned. By and by he focused his black eyes
on the new "swipe."

"How do you like banking by this time?" he asked soberly.

"I'm beginning to like it better," said Evan.

After a pause: "You know, they're apt to move a fellow any time; even
you might be moved. You've got along a whole lot better than most
juniors, and I wouldn't be sur----"

The ledger keeper broke off--the telephone was ringing. He took down
the receiver and began to talk loudly enough for Evan to hear.

"Yes, long distance. Where? Toronto! All right. Hello. Yes, this
is the S---- Bank, Mt. Alban. Yes, this is one of the clerks. Who?
..."

Watson put his hand over the mouthpiece and whispered excitedly to the
staring junior:

"It's the inspector!" Then he continued to speak: "Yes, sir, we have
two junior men here. Yes, sir, one of them is here now. Three weeks.
Yes, he's pretty good. You want to speak to him, sir?"

Watson turned to Evan.

"Inspector wants you," he said in a businesslike way.

Evan felt his knees weaken. He stared at the ledger keeper
despairingly, but bucked up when Watson said:

"Don't keep him waiting--remember he's the inspector."

"Hello," said Nelson, feebly. "Yes, sir. I--I suppose so, sir, if the
b-bank wants me to. Report there at once?--all right, sir, I'll try--I
mean I'll report--"

He hung up the receiver and murmured: "Berne!"

"Well," said Watson, like one who had been waiting in suspense for the
news, "does he want to move you?"

The ledger keeper laughed very hard and called it a good joke.

"But it will mean more money for me, won't it?" asked Evan, anxiously.

"Sure, your salary will probably be doubled. They may put you on the
cash there. It's an out-of-the-way place, you know, and you're
practically an experienced man by now."

A few minutes later two of the boys from another Mt. Alban bank came to
the front door and were admitted by Watson. They formed a semicircle
around the latest man of the hour in bank moves, and plied him with
questions. They appeared to enjoy the thought of his being moved to a
remote quarter of the province. The thing finally struck Evan himself
as funny, and they all indulged in a very satisfactory laugh. It
developed later, but not before Evan had telegraphed the exciting news
home to his mother, that only three out of the four had known what they
were laughing at.

Soon after a boy enters the bank he begins to look for someth