Show TREASURES IN OLD BOOKS i Vai valuable document discovered by a n second iland hand dealer in reply to a query from a correspondent a lo 10 london nil on s secondhand second CC oil d hand ha no I 1 bookseller book seller said 1 I frequently make maka finds in books I 1 buy it Is extraordinary the number of things that are slipped between tho the pages of books for a moment and afterward entirely forgotten letters without number I 1 have found and flowers locks of hair photographs bank notes checks and many other things too i 1 I bought a volume of a well known work from a lady some years ago and when she had rone gone while turning turning over the leaves came across a will which disposed of some thousands theu sands of pounds worth of property I 1 put the will carefully away and the following day the lady returned in a frightful state of excitement cit ement and wanted to buy the book backai back at my own price I 1 guessed what she really wanted but thought it rather strange that she should ask to buy the book instead of merely wiking asking to be allowed to examine it which would have been just as effect effective ive however I 1 told her I 1 had found the will and supposed that that was what she wanted she looked confused but confessed it was so I 1 handed it to her and she went away up to this time that hlll has not been filed so BO I 1 have learned and I 1 have not the slightest doubt that it has haa been suppressed for the purpose of depriving some one of the property which it of but the most interesting te case in which I 1 have been concerned in this way happened not long ago A well dressed gentlemanly man brought me three bulky volumes and wanted me to purchase them As they were of a class of books the value of which varies considerably according 0 to the condition and edition and 1 I was vas 1 very busy at the time I 1 asked him to leave them that I 1 might examine them and call the next day this he be consented to do and went away when I 1 looked at them I 1 came across a large I 1 number of bank notes they were evidently quite new and there wasi was something about them which made me doubt their authenticity I 1 compared them with notes of my own but could not discover the faintest dissimilarity however to make sure of the matter I 1 sent them to be paid into my iny bank naturally when my messenger came back having passed the notes without the slightest difficulty I 1 concluded they were all right the next morning I 1 received a message from the manager of the bank saying he would like me to call upon him I 1 went round and was not very much surprised when he be said that every one of the notes I 1 had banked the day before were forgeries I 1 explained the matter and we wired to scotland yard that afternoon I 1 had a new assistant in my shop toward the close of the day the owner of the three volumes came sauntering into the shop and asked it if I 1 intended to buy them at a sign from me my new assistant a detective pounced upon him and hurried him off scotland yard bad been looking for him for a long time it appeared I 1 have still the books la in my library I 1 keep them as a memento of the occurrence cassells magazine |