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Show ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOKE Pnckago She Callod Valuable Surprised Sur-prised Lawyers and Bankers When Opened. 4 Thoro Is such a thing as carrying a Joko too far. Six years ago an Eng-IIbIi Eng-IIbIi woman who was travelling In Canada deposited lu tho vaults of a Toronto trust company n parcel caro fully bound and secured with a num bor of Imposing seals. It was under stood that tho parcel contained Jewels of groat value, ami therefore It was guarded with zealous caro, says the Hochestor Post-Express. A fuw weoks ago tho English wo man died, and a clause in lior will mndo mention ot tho deposit In trust lu Toronto. After duo process ot lnw It was ordered that tho seals be broken In tho Cnuadlan city. Heirs in tho old land and ono in n fnr ills taut point In Cnnada sent their ro spectlvo lawyers to bo present at tin opening of the valuable package. On tho day appointed tho lawyers assembled assem-bled lu a private olllco of tho trust company. Horo Is a correspondent'! description of tho scene that fol" lowed : "lteil seals on tho outsldo of the bundle wero first broken, then an ar ray of green colored seals wero oil countered. After this wrapping came fold after fold of paper. Thou tlir-lawyers tlir-lawyers saw an oblong pasteboard box, also carefully tenled. Tho ox cltomeiit was almost Intense. Beads ot perspiration stood out on the lonrned brows ot tho privileged fow present. With tho unfolding of each succosslvo wrapping around tho box thoy expected to seo tho gllttur ot gold and tho luster of diamonds. At last, with nervous llngurs, It was opened; tho trenauro seemed near a hand. Two moro folds of paper wore undone, nnd several pairs of rcga' eyes saw an Innocent and fnded pair of corsots." Nothing Is known of tho motlvo for leaving tho faded pair of corsets In a trust deposit vault. Wo may assume Hint tho English woman was ecentrlc nnd wished to play a prank on her rol atlves. If so tho Joko was a succobs although alio may not bo ablo to ap preclato It. There Is matorlnl for a novol In this Incident. Wllkio Collins or Charles Heado would havo based an oxcltlng "threo deckor" on It, nnd had Coiiun Doylo foolishly decided not to write moro Sherlock Holmes stories ho could expand tho oplsodo Into a most batlltng dctectlvo problem. |