Orizaba.
"My reason for telling you this is that some years ago a strange
appearing man came to our bank and made a large deposit of money,
all in gold. He did not deposit it all at once, but brought it in
a few thousand dollars at a time until it amounted to more than a
million dollars. Then he disappeared and we have never seen him
since."
"And has he never called for any of the money?" asked Billie.
"Not in person, although he has drawn upon it at frequent
intervals. The name under which it was deposited is James Moon."
"An American?" asked Donald.
"I could not say whether he was an American or an Englishman. We
took him for the latter. But now I am coming to the real part of
the story.
"In addition to the money which he deposited, he also left with
us a small brass-bound box, in which he said there were valuable
papers. He gave orders that it should be delivered to no one but
himself in person, or until the expiration of ten years. The ten
years will be up in a few days and this afternoon I bethought me
of the box. But when I went into the vault in which it has been
kept for so many years, the place upon an upper shelf, where it
has always stood, was vacant. The box was gone!"
"Gone?" exclaimed all the boys in unison.
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