The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-17

pOSlte to each other at the top Of the lock. Of course if you know the mum Der the lock is set on you can do this
 but if you don't have to depend or your ingenuity. There is in each o1
 these wheels a small hole, through
 which you put wire through the back of the lock when you change the con- binatlon. Now, if you can bore hole
 through the door and pick up those wheels by running a wire through those l holes why you can open the door.
 hope I make myself clear. I was bor- ing the hole The door was chilled | iron about the neatest stuff I ever 1 worked on. I went on steady enough
 only stopped when Jinl--which, as said, wasn't his real name-Whistled 1 outside, and the watchman toddled by. By and by, when I'd got pretty near 1 through, I heard Jim--so to speak 1 whistle again. I stopped, and pretty soon I heard footsteps outside, and I'm blowed if they didn't come right up the
 bank steps, and I heard key in the l lock. I was so dumbfounded when I heard that that you could have slipped 1 the bracelets right on me, I picked up
 my lantern, and I'll be hanged if didn't let the slide slip down and throw l the light right on to the door, and there was the president. Instead of calling | for help, as I supposed he would, he | took a step inside the door and shaded 1 his eyes with his hand and looked at me. I knowed I ought to knock him l down and cut out, but I'm bleSt if I could | was that surprised.
 Who are you?" says he.
 "Who are you?'' says I, thinking that was an innocent remark as he began it and a-trying all the time to collect my self
 I'm the president of the bank says he, kinder short; something the mat ter with the lock?'
 By George, the idea came to me then!
 Yes, sir,' says I, touching my cap. MT. Jennings, he telegraphed this morning as the lock was out of order and he couldn't get in, and Pm come on to open it for him..
 T told Jennings a week ago. says he, that he ought to get the lock fixed Where is he?"
 He's been a-writing letters, and he's gone up to his house to get another let ter he wanted for to answer"
 Well, why don't you go right on?", says he.
 I've got almost through" says l. "and I didn't want to finish up and open the vault till there was somebody here"
 That's very creditable to you" says he, "a very proper sentiment, my man. You can't, he goes on, coming round by the door, 'be too particular about avoiding the very suspicion of evil"
 NO, sir" says I, kinder modest like.
 What do you suppose is the matter with the lock?' says he.
 "T don't rightly know yet" says I, 'but I rather think itssa little on ac- count of not being oiled enough. There ere locks ought to be oiled about once a year.
 well" says he, you might as well go right on, now Pm here. I will stay till Jennings comes. Can't help you--- hold your lantern, or something of that sort?"
 The thought came to me like flash,
 
 How do I know you're the presi- dent? I ain't ever seen you afore, and you may be trying to crack this bank for all I know"
 That's a very proper inquiry my man" says he, "and shows a most re- narkable degree of discretion. l con fess that I should not have thought of the position in which was placing you. However, I can easily convince you that it's all right. Do you know what the presidents name is?"
 NO, I don't" says I, sorter surly.
 "Well, you'll find it on that bill" said he. taking a bill out of his pocket And you see the same name on these letters," and he took some letters from his coat.
 I suppose I ought to have gone right l on then, but I was beginning to feel in- terested in making him prove who he | was, so I says:
 You might have got them letters to 1 put up a job on me-"
 You're a very honest man." says he, 1 lone among a thousand. Don't think | I'm at all offended at your persistence No, my good fellow, I like it. like it." md he laid his hand on my shoulder. | Now here" says he, taking a bundle | put of his pocket, "is a package of ten | thousand dollars in bonds. A burglar be apt to sarry these around with him, would he? I bought them in he city yesterday, and I stopped here o-night on my way home to place them IT. the vault, and I may add that your simple and manly honesty has so cuched me that [ would willingly cave them in your hands for safe 1eeping. You needn't blush at my )raise."
 I suppose I did turn sorter red when see them bonds,
 Are you satisfied now?" says he.
 I told him I was thoroughly, and so
 was So I picked up my drill again nd gave him the lantern to hold, so hat I could see the door I heard Jim s I call him, outside the door once or vice, and I like to have burst out aughlng, thinking how he must be fondering what was going on inside. yorked away and kept explaining to i'm what I was trying to do. He was cry much interested in mechanics, he aid, and he knowed that I was a man S was up in my business by the way I -ent to work He asked me about - hat wa oee rn+ and how ' liked nv \