The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-08-01

also in my possession. / made seat for |
myself on some ledgers and turning down
the lamp to point at which could read
conveniently, l began to enjoy myself as
well as the circumstances of the case would
permit.
read for five or six hours, and I can
safely affirm that never enjoyed Shakes
peare as well before. The absolute quiet pre-
vailing, and the fact of being shut off from
all exterior influences seemed to make me
appreciate the hidden beauties of the great
poet mnch more clearly than ever did in
my life.
1 read till grew sleepy. then made a
bed for myself Of the account books, turn
ed the lantern down to the faintest glimmer
for the sake of saving oil, and closing my
eyes, I was soon fast asleep.
When 1 awoke and looked at my watch
1 found it was ten o'clock on Sunday morn
ing. had therefore slept about twelve
hours.
felt very hungry, but l knew that 1 had
twenty-four hours more to pass there be-
fore could get anything to eat, so I deter
mined to try and sleep as much of my time
as possible, remembering the French pro-
verb, "qui dort dine"
read great deal Of Shakespeare during
the day, and about 8 o'clock in the even
ing again composed myself to sleep.
was suddenly awakened by the sound
of voices in the stone vault, and naturally
supposing that it was ten o'clock on Mon
day morning, and that some Of the clerks
were coming to open the safe, glanced at
my watch and found to my extreme sur
prise that it was exactly twelve o'clock at
night.
BY some intuition the truth struck me in
moment. 1t was some one come to rob
the bank, and the reverend visitor Of the
day before was spy.
| The first words heard confirmed the
truth of this conclusion, for heard the
Rev. Mr.. Elliott's voice exclaim to his con-
federate:
"Well, here wo are in this famous stone
vault-do you know Jim, we got in much
easier than expected"
"Thanks to your visit on Saturday after
noon, Bobby, as one of the black-coated-
gentry" H..-.I. ....
The robbers then were the famous White
Haired Bobby and Slippery jim
eyes" returned Bobby, al think l
gammoned the two buffers pretty WE'LL
You see, Jim, what it is to be a man of ed
ucation. should just like to see you in
the part of the Rev. Mr.. Elliot, and see
what figure you'd cut in it. ag
"That amt in my line, no how--but
tell you what, Bobby, you can't beat me at
picking lock-" a.fo.e
"You are pretty good at that, and no
mistake. But come, let us get at the
swag." .,f
"You are sure you haven't forgotten
how to open the safe, Bobby2" t4s
"No indeed the fool told me that 1t was
by turning the handle round seven times.
OF all the blessed babies / ever saw, new
er saw any one to come up to this nah,
Braintree."
saw that it was now time for me to
act. Fortunately had my pistol with me.
l drew it from my pocket, cooked it, and
turned up the lantern to its full, / waited
for the door of the safe to be opened, real
izing fully that my only chance of overpow-
ering the two ruffians, was to take them by
surprise. For if ! allowed them to recover
themselves from the sudden effect of my
2 appearance, they being two to one, would
/ soon overpower me.
had not long to wait. heard the han
die turn seven successive times, and theI
, Bobby gave a strong pull at the heavy dOol
) of the safe. M lus .14-af
1t yielded, but in a moment, l stepped
; out with the dark lantern turned full OF
: the robbers and with my arm stretched ou,
r holding the cooked pistol in my hand.
3 The effect of my appearance on Bobby
t and Jim, was absolutely terrific. They
r must have thought me ghost, for they
both turned livid with fear.
. Before they had time to recover them
A selves, l knocked Jim senseless to the foo
with the butt end of my pistol; and ther
. springing on the other I grasped him b!
/ the throat and bora him to the ground
Fortune favored me in, another respect
, for I saw hanging out Of the pocket of th,
. rufian had under me, strong piece Q
s cord, He struggled violently, but / wa
0 the stronger man Of the two, and succeed
o cd in binding him fast without much trou
+ bic. .er p ln0hnain w. sbGu ieii ~
/ When / had White Haired Bobby secur