Simple Tales: For the Young (1847)

A gentle, placid, woman who has given twenty years of faithful service to her company and who has let life take her where it would, from young womanhood to spinsterhood, finds herself in the midst of a bank robbery. When the thief is distracted, she snatches up a bundle of bills and puts it into her smock pocket, thinking, aThis is one bunch he wonat get.a Her motives for taking the money are good, but when she discovers that all the bank wants from her is a release stating that she will not sue them for emotional or physical distress, she realizes how absolutely unimportant she is to her employer. She tells only her mother that she has the money and allows everyone to think the thief has it all. Despite this she continues to think of herself as an upright, totally innocent person.