New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-19

wrenched apart, and the contents thrown
Pell nell on the floor for the chief expert t.
decide on what should be carried CT. The
upper rooms Quilted, they came down with
their spolis, which they piled high before
our eyes on the table, and then, leaving us
alone with our sentinels, they went through
the entry into my library.
1t was dark hour. l leaned back my
head and closed my eyes, and felt that fate
was cruel TO me. Only one consolation IL
lumlned the blackness of my despair-my
wife had carried her jewels to town with
her, and was spared the humiliation of
telling her had lost them for her through
my idio.ic faith in Belts. There was long
silence now, which l understood but TOO
well; it was followed by three mutfied ex-
plosIOns that shook the house like an earth
quake, and almost simultaneously was
heard the noise of scutfe, and / opened
my eyes to see the room filled with police
men. and hear pistol shots exchanged, while
our two seDtinels were thrown down, dis
armed, and pinioned before my eyes.
l looked and listened, mentally stunned,
without clear comprehension OF the mean
ing OF the uprOar, for with the noise of tire
arms, the clapg of manacles and the beat of
heavy feet the tumult was somewhat terri
flying.
III less time than takes me TO describe it,
the situation had been reversed, and now
Belts, the detective, appeared in the door
at the head of his posse of men, who
Drought n eight OF the captured burglars,
Two OF them wounded and bleeding pro-
tusely, while the rest showed signs of hav-
ing maintained stout resistance; all had
lost their masks in the melee, anu disclosed
sullen and brutal visages.
"How are yOu, Mr.. POwers'' inquired
Belts, coming forward and releasing me-
nope you are not hurt. l beg your par
con Tor taxing possession OF your house in
this way"
why did you make me think was safe
for tonight, Betts!'
Because" he replied, with shrug, II
discovered you were just little upset at
ran his eye over the group beside me, and
when he saw johnson, he grinned, and go
ing up to him, knocked Ills manacles Oft.
You're pretty detective, you are" said
ne, 40 be caught and tied up by the very
fellows you were in waiting fOr!'
Still, Belts was in too high good humor
to De angry even with the Inundated John
son. Meanwhile l was peeping into the
faces OF the thieves, fearing to find Marie
among them.
got the little one"
He gave tigerish cry, and glared from
one to the other of his prisoners.
"You are sure there was another!"
mo doubt of it," l returned; 'any one of |
these fellows is four inches taller than the |
leader OF the gang"
In another moment he had set picked men |
at work searching both house and grounds;
but he never succeeded in finding even a |
trace OF the eleventh of the party OF bur
glars. Nor even after che conviction and |
heavy sentence of the other ten, would any |
'ne OF them confess the secret of their lead |
srship. had easily identified NJ. and Nine.
De Sturges-botn swarthy and robust
frenchmen-among them, but in spite of all
ny efforts, neither one could be induced |
wen to acknowledge they had ever heard of |
uch person as Marie, or that they had
.ver masqueraded under the respectable
lisgnlse OF her employers.
But when the SHOWS melted off in the
pring, one little silent witness came to
lght, and told his pitiful story against her;
was the dog Jingle found dead in the
hrubbery, his throat cut. and his frozen
yes still upturned in reproachful agony
7arper's Bazaar.