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I butted in and asked what the
excitement was, and they told me that the bank had been robbed."
"But how?"
"That's what nobody knows. When the cashier, Mr. Henson, got to the bank
this morning everything apparently was all right. The doors and windows
were fastened, and there was no sign anywhere that the bank had been
forcibly entered. Of course, he didn't look at these things first. He
went to the vault and opened it at the proper time and examined its
contents casually. Everything seemed to be as usual. But when, a few
minutes later, he went to get out the currency, it was all gone. He
hadn't counted up when I left there, so no one knows the exact amount,
but it was large."


CHAPTER VIII.
THE BATTLE WITH THE BULL.

The excitement incident to the mysterious robbery of the Creviss bank
was intense.
How had it been done? This was the question that every one was asking
his neighbor. But none could answer it.
The evening before the robbery had taken place the bank had been closed
by the cashier, and by Mr.


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