Evening star., 1899-04-01

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Uncovered the top of the box There
WASH anybody in the garden or about like.
Jane was 'elping 'er mother do the 'ouse
l was excited. l tell you. ! tried the lock
ana then gave Il whack at the hinges. Sill
Yer colns-full-shining II made ME tremble
70 see en-. And JUS then I'm bleSt If the
dustfnan didn't come round the back of the
ouse- 1t pretty nearly gave me cart dis
ease to think what fool | was to have the
money MOI showing; And directly, after 1 card
the chap next doOr-'e was 'oldaying. too
watering is beans. If only ed looked over
the fencen'
What did you do?"
kicked the lid in and covered it up like
shot and went on digging about a
yard away from it like mad. And my face
50 to speak, was laughing on it's own ac-
count till had it hid. l tell you 1 was reg
ular scared like at my luck. l jest thought
that ad to be KEEP close, and that was all
1t seemed to me the box was regular stick
ing out and showing like your legs under
the sheets in bed, and / went and put all
tne earth "a got out of my 'ole for the
rockery slap on top of it. l was in a sweat
Ana in the midst of it all out toddIes 'er
father he didn't say anything to me but
Jane told me afterwards when he went in
doors e says That there Jackanapes of
yours Jane-he always called me a Jack
anapeS, some 'ow-knOws 'ow to put is
rack into it. after all. Seemed quite i'm
pressed by it, e did,
denly.
oh! bout so-by So" Mr. Brisher indl-
Gated mOdcrate-sized trunk
Full?' said ].
Full up of silver coins-'arf crowns. 7
believe" -'"'''' l
Why cried I, that would nean-hun-
dreds Of pounds"
Thousands said Mr.. Brisher. in a sort
OF sad calm I calc'Iated it out"
All l know Is what 1 found What I
Ihought at the time was this. The chap
who's owned the 'ouse before 'er farther d
beSn n regular siap-up burglar What Won
call ish-class criminal. Used to drive is
tfap-ike Peace did" Mr. Brisher medi-
1, 1Su On me dlfhculties of narration, and
embarked in a hazardous parenthesis. II
doh know If L told you it d been a bur-
gldf ouse before it was my girls fathers
ana knew ed robbed mail train once
did know that. 1t seemed to me-
nat very likely" l said. But what
orf me- ~
AN that morning" said Mr.. Brisher, .'I
was at it, pretending to make that rockery
ana wondering what l should do. I'd ave
told er father, p'raps-only | s doubtful
Oh Is ,honesty-I was afraid he might
give IL UP to the authorities-and he
sides. considering l was marrying into the
IL mily l thought it would be nicer like if
IL came from me- Put me on a better foot
ing, SO TO speak Well, l 'ad three days be-
V. &
couldn't think what to do
thought, said Mr. Brisher land /
tnought. once l got regular doubtful
Whether IA seen it or not, and went down
70 IL ana al 1t uncovered again, Just as her
ma come out to 'ang up a bit of washin'
she d done. Jumps again. Afterward 1
was Just thinking I'd ave another go at it,
wren WEN Jane comes to tell me dinner was
reaay. 1ouH want it, she said, seeing
all the ole you've dug I was in a regular
Gaze all dinner wondering whether that
ehap eIIp next door wasn't over the fence and
l got easier in my mind-it seemed to me 1t
must ave been there so long it was pretty
sure to stop a bit longer-and 1 tried to
get up bit of a discussion to dror out the
old man, and see what e thought of treas
ure troVe."
Mr. Brisher paused, and affected amuse-
ment at the memory THE old man was a
Wbst hs,d ne said s,d "a regular scorcher,"
II was like this" explained Mr. Brisher.
laying friendly hand on my arm. and
breathing into my face to calm me- "Just
TO I1 dr9r i'm out ! told story of a chap
l said l knew-pretendin', you know-who' d
found sovring in novercoat ed borrow
ed L said e stuck to It, but said wasn't
sure whether that was right or not. And
| me ave itr' Mr.. Brisher affected an insin-
| cere amusement. "'E was a rare 'and al
snacks Said that was the sort of friend
ed naturally expect me to ave. Said ED
naturally expect that from the friend of a
loafer who took up with daughters who
| didn't belong to i'm. There! / couldn't tell
you 'arf e said. e went on most out
| to dror i'm out Wouldn't you stick to a
/ 'arf SOW, not II you found 1t in the street I?
| says. Certainly not 'e says, certainly !
woaidn't . What: not If you found it as a
there's 'igher 'thority than mine-Render
| unto Caesar-what is 1t? Yes, well, he
fetched up that. A rare and at lifting you