The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-04-25

,asLing some of our humiliation.
5esides the three masked men who
1ilad mastered me and brought ma down
there were five others in the dining.
room. Two were left as sentinels over
US, and the rest at once fell to work in
a way that meant business. A small
active man motioned toward the side
board. 1t was wheeled aside, and, STEP
ping forward, he pressed the sliding
panel and disclosed the closet where
the silver in daily use was kept, and the
shelves were at once stripped and the
contents piled on the table.
The bedrooms upstairs were next
visited, the locks of drawers and ward
robes wrenched apart, and the contents
thrown pell-mell on the floor for the
chief expert TO decide on what should
be carried of. The upper rooms gut
Ted, they came down with their spoils,
which they piled high before our ewes
on the table, and then, leaving us again
alone with our sentinels, they went
| through tha entry into my library.
ss1Eia-slls- 1Eia-sl alsa5as. -s s<As1'.'Ssst = =
] my head and closed my eyes, aud felt
that fate was cruel 70 me. Only one con
ISOLATION illumined the blackness of de-
| spair-my wife had carried her jewels to
| town with her, and was spared the hui
initiation of telling her / had lost them
for her through my idiotic faith in
Belts. There was a long silence now,
which was followed by three muffled ex-
plosions that shook the house like an
earthquake, and almost simultaneously
was heard the noise of q scuffie, and /
opened my eyes to see the room filed
with policemen, and hear pistol shots
exchanged, while our two sentineIs were
thrown down, disarmed, and pinioned
before my eyes.
In less tins than it takes me to de-
scribe 1t the situation had been reversed,
and now Belts, the detective, appeared
IN the door at the head of his posse of !
men, who brought in eight of the cap |
tured burglars, two Of them wounded |
aud bleeding profusely, while the rest |
showed signs of having maintained a |
stout resistance; ; all had lost their /
masks IN the melee, and disclosed sui /
len and brutal visages.
." How are you, Mr.. Powers ?" inquir- |
ed Belts, coming forward and releasing |
me. hope you're not hurt. / beg |
your pardon for taking possession of !
your house in this way"
g Why did you make me think l was
safe for tonight, Belts %
&cause," he replied with n shrug,
d" discovered you were just little up
oct ~ Atit prospect AM 1 Ielb AFRAID oil I
you. He ran his eye over the group
beside me, and when he saw Johnson he
grlnned, and gong up to him knocked
his manacles off. You're pretty de
tective, you are, said he. ''to be caught
and tied up by the very fellows YOU
were in waiting for !"
Belts" / gasped suddenly, ''you
haven't got the little one.
He gave a tigerish cry, and glarad
from one to the other of his prisoners.
" You are sure there was another ?"
No doubt of it," I returned anv
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 succeedeta. in
1ndlng even a trace of the eleventh%
the party of burglar Not even after +
the conviction and heavy sentence of
the other ten would any one of them
confess the secret of their l, "s,S-',---t
had dsptifaffah & tifaffaheF j oBs 8Rs eeSid atd be
Induced even to acknowledge they had
sver heard of such person as Marj<|sn
,r that they had ever masqueradedeAHeT 6 9
ler.the respectable disguise of her en- .
,loyers.
But when the SHOWS melted off in the
pring one little silent witness came TO :
light, and told his pitiful story against :
Ter it was the dog Jingle, found dead {
n the shrubbery, his throat cut and his 2
re IN eyes still uptarned in reproach :
III agony.