Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1908-09-02

that he never came back, even for his
clothes.
You see, just across the street iiom
here is the subtreasul.. and every lit.
tie while a wagon drives up to the
door filled with big canvas bags full
OF gold, and the clerks wiz ZONE out
and get the gold and carry ,, into the
vaults. Well, on Tuesday morning.
just after had finished SOM, washing
and was going out to get new handle
to my irons, which had got broken, the
wagon drove up before the subtreasury
door and the clerks began to take out
the sacks OF gold and carry them into
the bank.
l can truly say that I'm lot by ma.
ture covetous woman, but, naturally,
l paused and watched the men a mo-
ment or two, thinking what / c.Iuld dc
If had what was In just one of those
sacks. Why, there must have been az
much as $4,000 or $4,000 in e. III sack.
and there were dozens Of them, / be.
lieve
Suddenly, as l was standing there,
darkness seemed to come over the
flying sound made me look up, and
there were the professors three eagles
broken loose from the cage-I felt real
sorry for the professor, 10 think that
his birds had got loos down
they came and lighted in the wagon
full OF gold. | lifted up my apron to
Shoe them back to the roof, when il
those three mischievolGi birds didn't
settle right down into Tie bags full of
gold and each one grab a bag in his
claws, like saw them grab bag with
day, and no sooner had they grabbed
the bags of gold than up they flew
again to the roof
| was astonished beyond measure,
but the clerks who were carrying IN
the gold were simply dun founded.
And no wonder! Surprising the eagles
should spill the gold or fly away with
II, why the poor clerks might have to
return 1T out of their salaries, and
hear they don't get paid SO much
though they are employed by the gov
eminent
Well, sir, the moment l could collec.
my scattered senses, | rushed back
into the house to tell the professor
what had happened, for, as I hadn't
seen him on the roof, / supposed he
was in his room. OF course the clerks
followed me, and we all hurried up
here where you are standing now.
The three eagles were gone, and tho
professor was nowhere to be found
Poor man. he was out somewhere in
the city, and / felt like running down
and warning him not to return, for
fear they would hold him responsible
for the gold
| saw that the eagles each had lately
had long cord tied to its legs and
thought nothing OF it more than
proper, but the clerks acted like a lot
OF wild men. They vowed that the
eagles had been let down to steal the
gold, and when they saw that this
roof leads over TO the next building
yonder, they said that the owner of the
birds had taken the gold and elm bed
through an open window in that build
ing into an empty room, and that way
escaped with the $4,000
OF course / saw at once how drea
fully dishonest it all might be made to
look, and | sat down and almost cried.
At first the clerks and the officers
paid no more attention to me than if |
had been a sick kitten, but when they
learned that | was the landlady and
knew all about the eagles and the pro-
lessor, they asked me a thousand ques.
tions, and l was dragged off to court
like criminal, and the poor profes.
sor's name was mixed up with robbery
and thieving, and | don't know what
else. But, somehow, he learned about
the mischief his eagles had got into.
and never returned.
or course the eagles flew away with
the gold bags poor birds. | don't
blame them bit for making the most
Of their liberty.-and | wouldn't at ali
be surprised If the police should find
that the birds had dropped the gol6
on some roof, when they discovered
that the bags didn't contain rabbit, as
they had imagined.