Rolla Express in Rolla, Missouri

Thegnglttlon Benes and the Honest Lesson in Carman's Store

A teenage clerk James Lewis accepts Mr Carman's flawed business ethos. He first experiences temptation with a bank overpayment and later copies the practice in his own pay. The tale traces his drift from honesty to concealed theft, under a mentor who excuses errors as business. Exposure looms and a reckoning nears.