The tunnel should be four feet high and about three wide; the earth I'd throw into the sewer, the water would wash it away.

There's no risk in digging the tunnel, as no one would get an inkling of what's afoot until the last shove, when we made direct for the money.

On that point let me ask: How long can we count on being undisturbed after we've got to the gold?
Now if it was a bank, we'd time the play for Saturday afternoon after closing hours; that would give us until Monday morning at nine before they'd tumble." [Illustration: "It'll Take Two Months to Dig that Tunnel."] "We can do better than that," returned Storri.

"Saturday, May twenty-eighth, is the anniversary of the death of a former Secretary of the Treasury, and a special holiday has been already declared for that day.

Monday, May thirtieth, is Decoration Day, a general holiday.