The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1896-05-21

o. unrh ] ts 8HiHl sat hesFht, 1ur q
bic - t1selleuL bot - toat sItoyethe
Ike yaat tpous Snrpass you sl'os "a
te rffci % staliipo e ycur house, i
shsIl cost you aothing We vish su spar
cent lbst looks out on the garden and
btre. jast by this va (shicb is III tumt
iiog doEu. by the v y sell buili you 4
suug apartment
Peter opened his eyes very vide at this
proposition, aud sI oUoe ooussuted Then
be hssteaed TO Helsl and told bin whai
bad occurred
Ts the strange.t thing ever heard. re
marked the brother Peter. those men
mnsr either be tools or erszy, think they
are fools
Aud should be foel. too, Il reins
ed to have NY property iuproyed Al their
eHpatse. replied the other
/ Helst scratched bis head aod sppeared
7 perpleIed really eau make nothing Of
! t, be said
Very soon mechanics began to bnDg
lnmber, aud 10 due time pretty frame
structure, With two rooms, arose at the
rear Of the inn, Oae side OF il was direct
ly against The wsll Of the garden.
Peter was happy the KneIisbmen's
gold hjwed into his ccii,rs and all went
well
One night when the brothers sat toeeth
er Hel,t remarked; I've been talking to
old Adam komp, and be tells me shout
sixty years sRo an eccentric or croz5 En
sis5msn bui.t large house where the
Red Lion nov stands Nobody liked him,
aud few knew anything about his history
He got ioto some trouble with the kings !
officers aud left the place suddenly, Soo1
afterWstd the house was bnrne down. / !
never could comprehend these English
the are the queerest people in the
world
They pay we'll, laughed Peter, sIappiog
his pocket; they pay we'll, Hels,.
July came, and the weather was delight
ful and, for some singular freak, the Eco
gllsumen stayed great deal 10 their
rooms. Ooce Peter came upon them sud
denly and caught them intentIr eIamin
ing map or dlagtsm which they had
spread on the table.
All, ali he multered they are survey
ors Doubtless they came TO purchase
land. How foolish my brother Helst was
With his suspicious.
Bot what bothered Peter the most was
the strangers were up burning bis candles
late into the night Every body else was
10 bed. " at were they doing up like
Dwls2
All at once the strangers began to take
drives. They wouldn't go out together.
but would take turns, one always remain
og at home. These things ooutinued for
several weeks.
Nheo this was told Helst be had new
.ource of perpleIity.
They certsluly are fOOl', be exclaimed.
" ho but fools would sit mp late sunmer
nights doing nothing aud go driving
Ibout the couatry without a compaDion?
Peter, those men may have wealth, but
hey have no brains
At length there came variation to the
nonotoDy. Both the strangers went out
o drive together one morning. Night
Isme, but they did not return. Peter
m oked his pipe and medltated at their
bseuce, and Helst scratched bis head for
thought
Two three four days went by, but
be strangers returned not, and no one
bout the country could give any iuIorma
ion concerninethem
Finally. when a week had elapsed, il
vas determined to break open the door OF
heir apartment, Win all the forms OF
aw this was accomplished. Aud lo be
lie the garden wall was great hole in
he esrth. On the table lay letter sd
reesed TO Peter Steen, from the rang
49, informing him that years befor one |
1 their aDcesior- bs lived on the spot '
ud buried a large tum of gold iu an old G
b hast by bis garden wall Immediately ~
pr be was ob |. .ei to nse the country
hey had fouud some papers 10 England
1tlch accurately described the OF where