cell was always full of girls and women and fresh
flowers; all the day long there was prayer, and hymn-
singing, and thanksgivings, and homilies, and tears,
with never an interruption, except an occasional
five-minute intermission for refreshments.

This sort of thing continued up to the very gallows,
and George Benton went proudly home, in the black
cap, before a wailing audience of the sweetest and
best that the region could produce. His grave had
fresh flowers on it every day, for a while, and the
head-stone bore these words, under a hand pointing
aloft: "He has fought the good fight."

The brave cashier's head-stone has this inscription:

"Be pure, honest, sober, industrious, considerate, and
you will never--"

Nobody knows who gave the order to leave it that
way, but it was so given.

The cashier's family are in stringent circumstances,
now, it is said; but no matter; a lot of appreciative
people, who were not willing that an act so brave
and true as his should go unrewarded, have collected
forty-two thousand dollars--and built a Memorial
Church with it.

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