HIDDEN TREASURE.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 1204, 22 January 1929, Page 3

HIDDEN TREASURE.

v ■-■ - ; A novel version, of the hidden treasuie story comes from Brussels. In a provincial town a man possessed of a wooden leg died and was buried. After the funeral the will was found, and it announced that his .'. personalty, consisting- of notes for 8000 francs, would be found m a cavity of the wooden leg 1 . The sister applied for an • order : for exhumation, and the notes were lound as the testator had indicated. Had this happened m the time of Cnrtouche, whose story is so enchantjng:lv told by Thackeray, we can easily imagine that bandit Stoppingthe man with the wooden leg: on the highway and demanding- ''Your leg- or your life." How such an adventure would have appealed to this educated scoundrel, how the opportunity would have been seized, and how -it would have embellished his life's story.