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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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CHAPTER
XXI.
SAVINGS-BANK
CURIOSITIES.
With
persons
who
deposit
their
hard-earned
savings
in
the
Post-office
Savings
Bank,
there
is
sometimes
observed
a
disposition,
not
to
be
wondered
at
in
their
case,
to
use
more
than
ordinary
care
in
keeping
their
savings
secret,--which
care,
however,
does
not
always
secure
the
aim
which
they
have
in
view,
but
results
in
quite
a
different
fashion.
A
domestic
servant
who
had
invested
in
a
Trustee
Savings
Bank
about
L100,
entered
the
holy
bonds
of
matrimony
in
1826,
when
it
might
have
been
expected
she
would
be
ready
to
admit
the
man
of
her
choice
to
a
knowledge
of
her
monetary
worth;
but
instead
of
doing
so,
she
concealed
this
matter
from
him,
and
he
remained
ignorant
of
it
throughout
the
remainder
of
his
life.
The
sum
at
her
credit
in
the
Trustee
Savings
Bank
was
afterwards
transferred
to
the
Post-office
Savings
Bank,
and
by
dint
of
saving
she
added
to
that
amount
nearly
L50
more.
At
length,
in
1862,
after
thirty-six
years
of
married
life,
she
died,
leaving
her
husband
with
three
children,
but
without
revealing
what
she
had
so
jealously
guarded,
in
the
interest,
no
doubt,
of
her
children.
Not
many
months
thereafter
the
man
married
again.
The
second
wife
seems
by
some
means
to
have
come
to
a
knowledge
of
her
predecessor's
savings,
and
in
order
to
pave
the
way
to
future
possession,
prevailed
upon
the
old
man
to
make
a
will
in
her
favour,
which
he
consented
to
do,
not
knowing
that
he
was
worth
anything,
and
thus
gratified
a
whim,
as
he
might
suppose,
at
small
cost.
The
effect
of
this
was,
that,
when
the
old
man
died,
the
second
wife
obtained
the
whole
amount
of
the
account,
while
the
poor
children,
whose
mother
had
kept
her
secret
so
many
years
in
their
interest,
derived
no
benefit
whatever
from
the
savings
which
she
had
hoped
to
leave
them.
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