We think the explosion was a great deal more severe than was anticipated.

Probably, it was expected that the shock would break a hole from the treasure chamber to the street, but so strong were the walls that no impression was made upon them, and a cabman who was driving past at the time heard nothing of the sound of the explosion, though he felt a trembling of the ground, and thought for a moment there had been a shock of earthquake." "You think, then, that the thieves were outside ?" "That seems the only possible opinion to hold." "The outside doors were locked and bolted, of course ?" "Oh, certainly; but if they had a confederate or two in the large hallway upstairs, these traitors would see to it that there was no trouble about getting in.

Once inside the large hallway, with guards stunned by the shock, the way to the treasure chamber was absolutely clear." "There were sentries outside the building, I suppose ?" "Yes." "Did they see any vehicle driving near the Treasury ?" "No, except the cab I spoke of, and the driver has accounted satisfactorily for his time that night.

The absence of any conveyance is the strange part of it; and, moreover, the sentries, although pacing outside the walls of this building, heard nothing of the concussion beyond a low rumble, and those who thought of the matter at all imagined an explosion had occurred in some distant part of the city." "Then the outside doors in the large hall above were not blown open ?" "No; the officer reports that they were locked and bolted when he examined them, which was some minutes, of course, after the disaster had taken place; for he, the officer in charge, had been thrown down and stunned, seemingly by the concussion of air which took place." As Jennie walked down the corridor, she saw more and more of the evidences of the convulsion.

The thick iron-bound door lay where it had fallen, and it had not been moved since it was lifted to get the two men from under it.