The Holbrook news., 1914-08-28

workin' day and night, so I gottel ! plaster on the makeup. And I gottel
 watch that hole to see she don't gel
 away from me. For when a hole get:
 away from a man-especially a hole
 like this one-it ain't no easy job tc
 get another"
 MT. Bellman had worked only few
 days and few nights when he struck
 something with his spade that gave
 him joy.
 If this ain't vein of gold-bearing ore," said MT. Britches. I'll wager it's the underground part of the Coun ty banks underpinnings; and if it's that. why then it is a vein of gold"
 He was right. It was a portion of the banks cellar wall. He hastily GOV cred 1t up. hung around until the whistle blew, then he left and, return ing later in the evening, brought with him new set of sharp tools.
 I'll get this job finished by morn ing" said this night watchman. ''or I'm Dutchman."
 He removed a layer of tar coating; then layer of cement. Then he struck the bricks.
 Now" he said to himself, eff she ain't more than three feet thick I'll have her through in no time. That's what"
 But that wall was blank wall, and it had been laid many, many years before, when there were no trade unions and no employers associations. and when cement and bricks were ce- ment and bricks. When the first gray streaks of dawn had appeared in the sky above the subway Britches had not finished. But he judged from the sound that there was but one layer of bricks still to be removed.
 Tomorrow night" said Britches to himself, tonight, I mean, why-the trickn be turned to a T. And no mis- take"
 He took a day of and rested up. He was made of flesh and blood and he was tired. But that night he started in, refreshed in mind and body. A deep peace was upon him. for he knew that in twenty minutes he would be inside the bank. And there was no man in the whole world who under stood the inside of a bank as we'll as Britches Bellman.
 One by one he loosed the bricks; he was right; it was the last layer. Little by little the hole widened He stuck his head inside. It was dark as pitch. He was prepared for this; prepared with dark-lantern.
 Now" he finally explained, a huge joy possessing him, now, here I am. The hole was just wide enough to admit his body, and he pulled himself carefully through and dropped down to the inside floor.
 'Ho. ho!" exclaimed MT. Britches Bellman, softly, this is nuts, for fair"
 He didn't want to show a light So he groped his way carefully about across what seemed to be a little room. It was. as he supposed. coal cellar. He crossed it, and the boiler room; picked lock and entered still another room. In this room he walked into a wall and stepped back suddenly. As he did so his heel trod upon some thing soft. Suddenly the room was flooded with a bright white light 1 Britches gasped and looked behind | him.
 You stepped on my corn" growled l a voice in his ear. It was the voice | of very big man. This big man placed his hand upon Mir Bellman's : shoulder. Then Bellman looked in front of him. Two other men were looking on. smoking cigars. They wore blue uniforms and brass buttons. They smiled on Britches BeIlman.
 "Is this the gentleman" said one, lrchly. who has no use for evidence?" 3ellman gasped again. The bank" 'aid another, "has been a-watchin' you or two days; they wanted to stop you. 'ut we wanted you to go on. until you finished the-the job"
 "GeeH gasped Bellman, holding out lis wrists, IT finished it. all right"
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