The check was duly presented, and
the bank h?vir.g satisfied then-selves
to the nurse's authority for making
such a request, suggested that a clerk
should accompany her and hand the
£ 1O0.0OO note in person to his lord
ship. .After having done so the clerk
told the peer that only three such
notes were in existence. "One." e
said, “we have at the bank, another
I have just handed to your lordship,
and the third, which some time ago
disappeared from circulation, we have
never been able to trace." "Perhaps
I can help you." said Lord Dysart, and.
going to a bureau, he unlocked a
drawer and took out the missing'
£100,000 note, which had been lying
there for years
Mr. Ralph N'evill, w^-o tells the story
in Fancies, Fashions and Fads, also
mentions a relative of his who died
hi the forties of the last century, and
who bad a similar mania for keeping
great sums of money at home. He
had a love for putting banknotes in
books, and a sum amounting to little
short of £30.000 was extracted from
between the leaves of his library by
his executors.
Schoolboy Frankness.
