WHEN YOU ARE KEPT AWAKE.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 55, 15 June 1908, Page 6

WHEN YOU ARE KEPT AWAKE.

He would not disclose it whilst detectives were- there, but would give the chance, and would meet a iewxoi them, if they vero alone in the roqinjat midnight. Vory uneasy in the mmds'j some of them went theie accordingly .at midnight. When ; n the vault a voice was heard which they could, not locate. It stipulated that lights must bo jnit out, and when this was done a man entered the room with a : dark lantern in his hand. Jt was shown that this man had been in the habit of entering the- sewers when the tide was low to see if any articles of value had been washed into them, and one night he discovered a strange opening which led to a largo square stone which he could removo, and when he had done so ho found himself in the bank treasury. Ho was an honest man, and, as related, wrote to the directors, and to prove his story abstracted the chest, which he returned to them. He was well rewarded and given a pension for life.—'Strand Magazine.'