of Smith's

    paper

   with Jenks' endorsement was thrust at him, he gave in; saw clearly that he was the victim of a heartless

    forger

   .

   But his calmness, in the midst of his affliction, triumphed, and he rested comparatively easy in jail that night, awaiting the bright future of to-morrow, when his established character, and "troops of friends" should set all right. But, poor Jenks, he reckoned indeed without his host; to-morrow came, but not "a friend in need;" they saw, in their far-reaching wisdom, a sinking ship, and like sagacious rats, they deserted it!

   "I always thought Jenks a very good-natured, or a very

    deep

   man," said one.

   "I knew he was too generous to last long!" said another.

   "I told him he was

    green

   to endorse as freely as he did," echoed a third.

   "Good fellow," chimed a fourth—"but devilish imprudent."

   "He knows what he's at!" cunningly retorted a fifth, and so the good but misguided Jenks was disposed of by his "troops of friends!"

   But Perkins & Ball—they had got up again, were flourishing; they, Jenks felt satisfied, would not show the "white feather," and the thought came to him, in his prison, as

    merrily

   as the reverse of that fond hope made him

    sad

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