The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-15
Saett AGadina.
SPEECH WITHOUT WORDS;
OR,
How n Burglar was Caught.

I will tell you story of how | once
saved my life, entirely through havinI
learned the deaf and dumb alphabet.
There were two little boys who used
to come to stay with Frank and me,
when we were first married, and they
could neither hear nor speak.
They were deaf and dumb; they
could not talk, except with thcir
tingers-so-onIy ever so muci quick
er..
Frank and I learned this foreign
alphabet on purpose that we might
understand what they said. They
were quick and clever; they could read
and write, and draw and sew, and dc
many other things which most boys
would make a very bad hand at.
They could play at draugh's, and
backgammon, and chess, and at ioN
and geese, as well as any boys. They
could almost see what we sail, al
though they could not hear, with su,l
quick, eager eyes did they watch every
movement of our lips. We soon
however, got to,talk as easily with ON
fingers as with our ton gues; and some.
times, when the laIls were not with
us, Frank and | used to converse in
that manner when we were alonc, iot
practice. ...A
1t happened upon one occasion thai
he had to 90 to London on importan,
business he was to have gone by al
afternoon train, but something delay
cd him, so that he was not able tc
leave before the night express.
l was not in very good health, and
retired to my bedroom about tive
hours before his departure he prom
ised, however, to come up and wish
me good-by before he started, which
would be between twelve and one o.
clock in the morning. The matter
which had called him away was CON
nected with the bank here, which had
Just been burned down; and my hus.
Band, it seems, although | did not
know it at the stime-so great a secret
had he endeavorcd to keep it-hal
many thousand pounds belonging to
the concern in his temporary posses
sion, locked up in the iron safe in Our
bedroom, where the plate was kept.
He was bank manager, and rcspon-
sible for the whole of 1t was a
cold time, and there was fire in the
room, so bright and comfortable that
l was in no hurry to leave it to get
imo7bed;I but~sat up looking into the
fiery Goals, and thinking about all
sorts of things; upon the long journey
Frank had t. take that night, and OF
how dreary the days wodld Seem until
he returned, and in particular, how
lonely | should feel in that great room
oil by myself when he should be away
for | was dreadful coward. 1t
was little after eleven o'clock when
I got into. bed, but l did not
feel the . least inclined to sleep
even then. ! knew that Frank would
be coming to wish i me gotl-by pres
emily; and, besides. there seemed to
be all sorts Of noises about the room,
which my foolish ears always used to
hear whsnevsr alone at nighttime.
If a little SCOT fell tfown the chin
ney, it was, l thought, a great black
crow at least, which would soon be
dying about the room, and sitting ON
my Pillow;'if "a ms,iser sqaealsedi in
the wainscot, it was the creakinxof
some dreadful persons shoes coming
up stairs to kill me with carving
knife and if the, wind blew the case, e
.saent it wassoms personl trying to get
in the windaw, although it was two
stories high. aN&a
You may imagine, then, my hor-