Hoping to Find it Below Cellar of Ancient House When their day's work in hospital is done, the Mother Superior and three nuns of the Home of the Compassion of Jesus at Thames Ditton, Surrey, dig for buried treasure. They hope to find it deep down below the cellars of their 10th-century building. Already in the hall there is a 15-feet hole, This treasure hunt is their attempt to save the home, which is being ravaged by the deathwatch beetle. Recently, writes a "Daily Herald" correspondent I found them, smothered in dust, working beneath the cellars, Wards Emptied We have had to empty three of the wards as some of the floors are breaking in, the Mother Superior said to me. Twelve of the patients have had to be sent away, and one of them Her Guardians
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