Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-12

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chase. you can, and anything you
may find you are welcome to-
After l had buried George Rankin.
! turned my attention to the hidden
money. / am not. hope and believe,
covetous fellow, but / thought that
II could md It. might as well have
It. and as had been In a carpenters
shop for year or two when a boy, I
knew a little OF building, and could
handle the tools fairly well. I there
fore started or te the Old Kent Road.
Workman street is In very poor
neishbsrhoed. the houses being let cut
In tenements. OF ons and two rooms
rent the attic at half crown a week.
On the Monday moved q bed.
/ Table and a few chairs to my new
abode, leaving the rest of my belong
ings AT my old lodgings and set TO
work to try and find the misers hoard.
Day. after day l persevered, trying
every OF or the rooms surface, but,
IKE poor George Rankin, could And
nothing. had the boards UP one NJ a
,inis' sounded all the walls, and went
hnI way up the chimney, but all to no
purpose, and had quite made up NV
mind that the old miser had played a
hoaN on his son. when l determined.
as = last resource, TO consult a de-
,cetlNe sergeant Mt the East End who
was a friend OF mine.
Il knew the sergeant could no ,r,,ataa
ana saw MIN and told him all
Sergeant Green listened patiently
TO my tale and carefully read the let
ser wnieh George had received from his
f." You have tried tho place nil over
and found nothingY he asked.
yes, replied, I have. and II you
ean hclp me. and we Ind tho money.
E3u can have what ever share you
We'll said Green. there may he
something In II or there may be
nothlng-but l am inclined 10 think
.ncrr III something, IL we find the
money IL may be much or little,
suppose We say that you shall give me
than f20?' "'' w "'oie
dld not. ut the moment. catch his
meaning, and told him so.
why what ! mean u.s. anld he,
ny Ssupposo we nnu GO am TO have no
~ we una 100 l am 10 have f2O, but
thata the limit IL we find 1000 / am
o!lly to have eco
Right you are cried. You are
. very fair and ! agree
we then went TO my attic and
recommended operations.
Green questioned mo closely as TO
whCro | had searched.
Wen, think II must bo either in
.he WINDOW the door or the ceiling
ne SAID Mt last, You have not had
No replied, I haven't
We got the saahes out and opened
/, the box OF the easement frame, but it
, was quite empty and It took us some
hours to reinstato the window.
Grecn then carefully tnuped the
stiles and framework OF the door and
tried them with gimlot. but without
. effect
'rhc ceiling was now the only
, enahee, II was plastored all over ex-
eept the roof jolstH, which projected
. below the plaster; and the whole OF tho
ceiling like the walls, was covered
= with thick coating OF whitewash.
/, Green took the gimlet again and
= Kept boring holes every few inches In
the side OF the joists, one by one He
. had arrived at the last Ioist next the
window, all the rest having proved per-
J, fcetly SOUND, ana l was getting quite
!, hopeless, when his glmlet met some
y obstruction. He quickly removed II
= and tried again, an inch or two farther
. of. The gimlet struck again. and
y again; aud again.
, ITS here, believe cried Green.
= II had been looking on nH patiently
MS ! could, for thought Il was impos-
alble for any money TO be concealed
u In the iolsts, but l gave n little 1Iur-
rahr and started aeraping the white
l. wash Oft the bottom OF the jolst. Only
the solid wood presented itself.
Meanwhile Green had continued his
/
y 1oist about four feet long Ms containing
something that prevented the gimlct
from entering more than half nm inch
k Into the wood. with quarter-lnch
II gOuge he then cautiously made a small
le hole and. lighting Il match. he said: I
N can see rome paper
Ie I'VE then scraped the sides OF tho
u Joist, and found that on the side op-
y pusite to that which Green had been
!, boring. piece OF wood hud been let
y IN and screwed up like cover or lid.
~ We quickly had the screws out, md.
~ prylng out the movable piece OF wood,
y we disclosed n hollow channel. evident
ly cut with great labor with PEN
e knife, IN the J0ist. II was four feet
y dix Inches long, and just large enough
% to hold n sovereign standing on edge.
g This channel was fllled with n row
Y, OF rouleauN, containing f20 each. There
n were thirty-six rolls. making f270 and
the papers they were wrapped In
~ proved to be Dank-notes. Ten pound
" notoa were around twenty OF the rolls
and flve-pound notes around the re-
y manning sixteen. making f2S0 more. In
y all there was exactly 1000.
It Poor George cried. what pity
r, he did not ind 1t. It might have
r. saved his life"
% 1--WE replaced the side OF the lois,
n and. with the money IN my pocket. we
to adjourned to Green's home and / had
n IA jolly evening with him and his wife
pr "rhe sergeant wanted only to take
f20. as he had agreed but insisted on
G. his having 200, and he and his wife
IN saw ! was so upset when they refused
1t that they ultimately gave way, and
10 went home with n light heart and a
" heavy pocket containing fn0Q
sergeant Green always declares II
10 was the best day'n work he ever had
m or IL likely 10 have. He and are
STEERS call me Uncle Jarmun when / &c
to 10 spend an evening there.