The National tribune., 1895-05-30

half dollar week.
"On the day moved a bed, a table, ant
a few chairs TO my new abode leaving th'
rest of my belongings at my old lodgings
: and set TO work 10 try to find the miseri
hoard.
Day after day persevered, trying every
bit of the rooms surface, but, like poor
George Rankin, / could find nothing.
had the boards up one at time, sounded
all the walls, went halfway up the chimney
but all TO no purpose, and had quite made
up my mind that the old miser had played
hoax on his son, when i determined, as a
; last resource, TO consult detective Oh the
East Side who was friend of mine.
g knew the detective could be trusted,
and / saw him and told him all.
Detective Green listened patiently to
my tale, and carefully read the letter which
George had received from his father
'Iou have tried the place all over and
found nothing?' be asked.
Yes replied, have, and if you can
help me, and we find the money, you can
have whatever share YOU like to name
Well said Green, there may be some
thing in it there may be nothng-but
am. inclined to think there is something
if we find the money it may be much or
little. Suppose we say that you shall give
me one-third, but that it shall not be more
than S1O0g
did not at the moment, catch his mean
| ing, and told him So
Why, what / mean is said he, suppose
we find $50, am to have $50. If we find
$500 am TO have 500, but'that's the limit
If we find $4,000 / am only TO have $780,
Right you are cried. You are very
fair, and agree
We then went TO my attic and recon-
menced operations
Green questioned me closely as to where
/ had searched.
well, i think it must be either in the
window. the door, or the ceiling he said at
last. You have not had the window out?'
NO 1 replied, / haven't
"We got the sashes ont and opened the
boxing of the casement-frame, but it was
quite empty, and it took us some hours to
reinstate The window.
Green then carefully tapped the stiles
and framework of the door and tried them
with gimlet, but without effect
. The ceiling was now the only chance 1t
was plastered all over except the roof ioists,
which projected below the plaster; and the
whole of the ceiling, like the walls, was
covered with thick coating of wbitewash.
Green took the ginlLet again and kept
boring holes every few inches in the sides of
the joists one by one He had arrived at
the last Joist next the window, all the rest
having proved perfectly sound, and / was
getting quite hopeless, when his gimlet met
some obstruction. He quickly removed it
and tried again, an inch or two farther off.
The gimlet stuck again, and again, and
again.
"' It's here, believe cried Green.
=" ! had been looking on as patiently as
could, for i thought 1T was impossible for
any money to be concealed in the joists, but
gave little hurrah and started scraping
the whitewash off the bottom of the ioist
Only the solid wood presented itself
Meanwhile Green had continued his boz
ings, and had marked off piece of the joist
about four feet long as containing something
that prevented the gimlet from entering
more than half an inch into the wood. With
quarter-inch gouge he then cautiously
made small hole, and lighting match, lie
said, i can see some paper
We then scraped the sides of The ioist,
and found that on the side opposite TO that
which Green had been boring piece of wood
had been let in and screwed up like cover
or lid
We quickly had the screws out. and
prising out the movable piece of wood we
disclosed a hollow channel, evidently cut
with great labor with penknife, in the
jeist. 1t was four feet six inches long, and
just large enough to hold a quarter standing
on edge.
This channel was filled with a row of
rouleauK, containing 500 each. There were
36 rolls, making '$3 600. and the papers they |
were wrapped in proved 80 be bank notes |
Fifty-dollar netes were round 20 of the |
rolls, and twenty-five dollar notes round the |
remaining 16 making 81 400 more In all |
there was exactly $1,000.
"'Poor George cried. What pity he |
did not find it. 1t might have saved his |
life
We replaced the side of the joist, and, !
with the money in my pocket, we adjourned |
TO Green's home, and ] had jolly evening |
with him and his wife
The detective wanted to take only 500, |
as he had agreed, but ] insisted on his /
having $500, and he and his wife saw was |
so upset when they refused that they ulti-
mstely gave way, aud / went home with a |
light heart and heavy pocket containing
$4,000
Detective Green always declares il was
the best days work he ever had or il ever |
likely TO have. He and i are great friends |
now, and all the youngsters call me Uncle
Jarman when / 90 TO spend an evening
there.
1T gave me my start in business threw
up my job of night-watchman and set up as
a green grocer and fruiterer. and have now,
as you know, several of the best ready
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