if you actualy follow the quest dialog and give it to the brother as instructed, you get like 33cp. Above poster neglected to mention that the guard also gives you close to 2sp in coin, too. You decide which is a better reward

Its the only quest I've seen yet that has an alternate ending, or can be completed by NOT following the quest dialog. Wonder how many others there are like this- with better rewards for people who use thier brains instead of blindly following thier journal (for the record- sombody had to tell me about the bag thing- I was one of the people who followed the journal without question, so not insulting anyone else who didn't think to give it to the guards heh).