The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-01-17

Then went back to the window almost
discouraged. Suddenly l saw a faint
mark on the sill. 1t was a surveyors
mark. lined 1t up to the pump, got
the exact center of the line, dug down
and discovered a lard pail, and in it
money. l went home just 5000 richer
for the job.
"Three years ago had a remarkable
case which was handled by myself and
partner. An old gentleman had died
suddenlyof heart disease. He had been
found lying on the floor in his library,
to which he had gone, as was his Gus.
tome, Immediately after breakfast. 1t
was discovered that there we're missing
from his effects $50, 900 in bonds, which
it was known he was about to take to
safe deposit vault the very morning he
had dropped dead. The heirs were
crazy at their loss, and when we arrived
at the house they were tearing every
thing to pieces in their wild efforts to
find the missing bonds. stopped the
search, for knew that the man was not
'concealer, and l felt sure that he had
not hidden the bonds, but had lost them,
or that they had been stolen from him
between the time he had left the break
fast table and that at which he had been
found dead, My partner agreed with
me, and we decided that in eth case
our search must be begun in the library.
The family physician helped us here.
There is, he said, upon the right wrist
of the deceased peculiar mark or pat
tern of open work, which must have
been received by the arm striking some
thing in the fall We examined the
marx. IL was indeed a peculiar one.
Just above the wrist there was a imprin-
ted pattern as plainly as if it had been
made with a stencil and brush. The
arm must have struck upon grating of
some irregular design Where was the
grating? Evidently somewhere in the
library We pressed into service the
servant who had first discovered the
body of her master and made her show
US Just where he had lain when she had
found him. She pointed out the spot,
and in describing the scene she said:
"His right arm lay right across the reg
ister. put it back in place" Put
what back in plac-?' l asked. THE
register" replied the girl, John IAN
other servanD dropped ring in there
the night before, but was called away be.
fore he could get it out He left the reisteI
on the fl DOR, thinking he would be right
back, but he didn't get a chance that
night" The register was out of it:
place in the morning, then? SAID, eager
ly. a ray of light flashing upon my mind
Yes sir; it lay just this side of the hole
and masters arm was right over it.
''Put out the furnace fire as quickly at
you can, yelled, in my excitement II
didn't take them long to do that, and al
the second bend of the pipe from the
fl l)or were the missing bonds and John,
ring, a cheap affair worth 81 so. YOU
see the old gentleman just as he fell had
lifted the package of bonds from hl'
table to put them in his pocket. Deatt
arrested him, and as he fell, the force oi
the blow from his wrist stricking upor
the register grating, had sent the bundle
flying from his nerveleas hands Gowr
the opening. The bonds were in tigh
sealed packet else they would surely
have been burned.
Yes, moneyiis hidden in every con
ceivabIe sort of place, and have founC
it behind the back Of pictures and mir
rors, stuffed as wadding into the barrel
of old, useless muskets. under false cell
ings, beneath floors, in old vases will
false bottoms, under chair bottoms, ant
Heaven knows where else The bes
places to conceal money? Well, CUES
the best are those in open sight, wher
no one wonld think of looking. Ther
is still a better way Spend it: then me-
ther you nor your family eau ever find
again.