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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, ly FRANK TOUSEY, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
ENTERED AT THE POS? OFFICE AT NEW YORK,'N.
¥., AS SECOND CLASS MATTER.
FRANK TOUSEY,
Nos, 34 & 36 North Moore St.
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 16, 1888,
{#- 50 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. }
$1.25 Fok S1x Montus,
No. 545
Every evening at four o'clock Van opened his bank and received and loaned money like an old banker.
By and by some of the boys began to
make deposits in order to have something to check against, and it was astonishing how some of them accumulated pennies.
THE BOY
FROM A GENT’
BANKER;
a A MILLION.
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By H. K. SHACKLEFORD, "
Author or Dick Dariton, the Poor House Boy. ”
fr wits Op tte rine © “uD, 33 O,
First BD.
on Wes by W
Glass, *
cu APTER IV.
YAN'S FALL AMONG THE BANK CLERKS.
(47s may readily be supposed the advent
% rt banker’s errand boy,. flying
$ = b. Sher he railing and landing on the
head of one of the clerks, created
sometbing of a panic among the bank people.
‘The man who flung him over there had disap-
peared 80 quickly that the
tlerstoorl by a
ven he was too much confused to know just
what had | happens to to
When he landed on the | clerk, that terrified
young! man nttered a yell as he went down on
ihe fi
“The Drunkara’s” Warning; or,
on the Brin
fesader vee The Broken Botti,”
a
Young
ard.
The ‘Hidden Treasure. pins Chitaren of the iste wn “
First Glass," the Broken Pledge," ete., ete. ele.
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Every clerk turned around to see what the
trouble was, and then ajl but the eashier left
te posts and rushed forward to pick them
R Ob, I’m killed!” groaned the clerk, ‘as
they lifted him up. .
“What's the toattor! ? What does it mean?”
was heard on alls:
Van picked himself up and limped awa:
The Vice president of the bank collared him
dy save Van himself, and | and demanded:
“Here! What | does this mean? What are
you doing in her
ung ror the rail, sir,” he re
rubbing himself in a dozen places where et felt
pains,
“Flung on er the rail! _ What do you mean?”
*A man icked. me up and flung me over
the rail, si o
ses now appeared, summoned by
lephone, and they prevented arush of peo-
he into the bank building.
Van finally :nanaged to tell the story of the
robbery, and the astonished bank ‘officers
hunted for the case, which had been, kicked
under a desk in the excitement which follow-
ed his very sudden advent?
Inside of it was an ingenious mechanical
contri , by means of which an automatic
bird’s ‘foot swould dart} from the middle to the
lower end, on touching a noiseless spring,
close on an: tything it came in contact with, and
draw it up again into the hollow.
» The $1,090 ackage was found securely held
up in the middle o:
was taken an nd retrned to its place on the
counter’s desk.
r. Colton came in, and was astonished at
what’ had occurred during his brief ubsence.
He oo! ked at Van over his glasses, and
“ ‘Did he hurt you?"
“ «J guess he did, sir. "T'wasn't any fun for
the banker smiled.
meen you know the man again?’ he
ai ked
"Yes
isguro on that?”
es, sir.”
A detective was sent for, and Van told the
he case, from which it] s
story over again to him, giving as good de-
seription of the two men as he could.
“It is the most ingenious trick for rob-
bing a van that I know of,” the detective
said. ‘‘ That spy-glass case is a new wrin-
kle. They’ z have made off with the pack-
age if the boy had not interfered.”
“Undoubtedly,” assented the vice _Presi-
dent, who was with him at the momen|
“They were oli stagers,
“ How a 0 you know that?”
“By their actions. They threw him over
the By tne to prevent him from folowing them
to the street and crying ‘ et
“Ah, yes. Sothey did. Well, 6 your best
to catch ’em, and the boy can swear to
hem, I guess,
When Vi an ‘yont back to his post, the banker
him
e done us a service for which you
will be “duly “owarded, my boy. I am sorry
you v ere hurt, and it you S vis to go home for
the day you cai
“Much obliged oto “you, sir,” said Van,
yery prom “Tdon’t mind my hurts so
much as Ido having my good clothes torn,”
and he showed where both his trousers and
coat bad been to:
h, tbey, can be mended very easily.”
“ Yes, 8 ir.
“ Bat as here; go up to the place jyhere
you got those and get another suit. Her
ano order for them. You will need a chnnge -
of clothes, anyway,
Van was surprised.