Show THE OF about ite co cawal mae 1 CA 7 the phe first we I 1 tort met oo on the porter bank la in a 6 quaint Egl tand uniform KM a af which acme dau or buk bk I 1 think ft a hundred years coun t hift a green and on aio oio but I 1 its it details the porter acu icu me to A room mom vision the elite of the bank be found this officer mr air gry grey Is cati catillon llod chief kad chell lation corresponds very much c to thai at po of sublet of one OM of at our banim mr it gray who tat at his duk surrounded by a corix bp of 0 buy boty cle clemits rits had who giclio in gentleman of tho the moo moi cou cowood red bad gave me cordial at welcome and under udder br ban a I 1 vast every department or tho 0 back and had everything which I 1 did not onder understand stand at a glance to me the he of uie the bank is IB fam fourteen wenand ud lulf millions sterling its ita circola uon tion IQ in tho ilia hunt hands of tho ilia fotiu twenty clyel millions lara its in it do 1 of which i in intend 7 1 its 0 oa DO corion porion paid rn these th thirty 1 aty it ud discount Iwas 1 told that at older to at a at this back ll it was abao bo pet bewly lately necessary to have a deposit go c count but it cart can hardly be ibis that a chankin balking bulking 0 I 1 with such so enormous war ing pill at I to noury deary UW it is ever obliged 1 to buy paper la in the open market la in order to keep up loans tho the bank dik des counts no ao bill 1111 timing having over three ahr months to run the smallest city bill which it discounts diacou aU is one ODO hundred pounds smallest malliat mall cat country bill 1111 twenty pounds it circulars cireo latea no DO smaller data than BIC undo but this seems to bo be the tha only obly flo from to la limit mit 1 to denominations la in a the building la is is C cowd note nolo or of th abo bank of england for a million pounds pound 1 itte urdia foss rod if I 1 reme remember her tightly lightly abo rogers robert had bacig io in lili bit library ft a D at of I 1 tho cho lame game institution for I 1 have heard that a note for colfo CO once bid bad a singular familiar history it was ikid out to ibo dir director ectore a of the bank who soon after loot it under ucb such circumstances ihm he be wait vu satisfied and nd in an itle ibe bank just it U had fallen into hla his Hrc t destroyed don troyed ila ho was wai given a new bow note colo rot for which he be returned a proper receipt and guarantee alasky yen acra after the ibo original ta 1 note was presented for payment tho lu biown it but bill ce could ot id not DOI for it WAR genuine and in the hands of an tone cent beat person and tho the buik bank had to pay it its ita history was ben looked locked into inlo 1 rod nod it itar at ascertained that thai lost instead ad or of being burner burned i it it had two been carried up op by ft a drought drauR ht a flois a d bait I 1 found a ula sale lodgment la in wine cramoy iii in tho the and hem it boa romallas uncil of writt lons IQ ia the abe house houm tho the sl of the iho then it wu was by ft a workman who regard ed cd it as a legitimate flod find and who presented it for payment right hem I 1 may in well retain another story elory of the bank or of which ran many hall in fa print kad and to AS legends but bul ot at alch I 1 will let thew two tirre as A rawer workman while poking round ground found f tint by raising a flaR aono 1000 he could into the iho bullion room of tho bank back amazed at tho the discovery W be pondered over it ud mad finally concluded conclude that be would utilize it to his br pecuniary benefit without stealing uc he wrote to selling what reward lio he would receive if bo be should meet them at any appointed hour of ibo cho night in ID the bullion TOOTS room and thus reveal to there a mad of rf or which they entirely Igno raoL tecy Dal named latil a uta join which would make him in depend ent eat for life sad and to their chair overwhelming surprise ho be kel karl t his promise olto by log ing up through tho the sewer for which be received tea lea thousand pounds dounda or so this in supposed to italis happened long ago go var |