Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-01-13
now it was close to the bedside, and
bending over her.

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bending over her.
Involuntarily she closed her eyes
She was no heroine, endowed with
marvellous presence Of mind, but
a weak woman who felt her self at
the mercy of one of those lawless
characters with which the danger
Gus quarters of the metropolis
abound. And when a hand grasp
cd the bedclothes, as if to drag
them from her, Katie Mayne for
the first time in her life tainted
quietly away.
When her senses returned it was
morning, and Miriam was leaning
over her with some alarm depicted
on her face.
"Thanl1 goodness, you have
opened your eyes at last! You
look so CHASTITY, | feared you were
i'll. Did you find the room too
close in the night, that you opened
the window ?"
The question brought hack al
the horrible recollections of that
dark hour, and with cry OF min
gled grief and rage, Katie spranG
out Of bed and seized the trunk. 1t
was unlocked the ring of KEYS
that had been under her pillow
when she went to rest. now lay on
the floor with suudry odds and ends
Of feminine attire flung out of the
trunk and, "a she had forl o led.
the packet containing not only her
own and her sisters share OF the
legacy, bat the notes pertaining TO
hcr amt, were gone.
For some time the half-stupilied
sisters sat gazing at the trunk, too
much bcwildered by their loss to
do anything but lament it. Yet
their grief was not wholly for them
selves. They were yonng and
strong. they told each other, and
though it cost them pang to re-
nounce the happiness this money
was to have afforded them, why,
they would be but Gs they were
before.
Dut the widowed aunt, whose
worst cares were to have been lift
ed from her burdened shoulders
the anxious mother, whose heart
had sung with joy as she looked
around at the little ones, and saw
herself enabled to further their
interest--how should they tell her
that the precious sum on which
she was depending was lostl
"che police !" exclaimed Katie,
suddenly starting into action. eve
must go to the police. The gentle
man from whom we received the
notes may have taken the precau-
ton of keeping the numbers. We
will not give way to despair until
we have done our best to recover
them"
Only those who have gone
through similar ordeal can realize
the misery OF that morning to the
sisters. They were questioned
till they grew hoarse with replying.
The tale of Katie's nocturnal
adventure had been told over and
over again, till she grew weary of
telling it. The landlady of the
house, aroused from her matutinal
nap to hear 1t, was selfishly indig-
nant that such an affair should
have happened in house that had
always borne the highest of char
acters, and talked at Katie and
Miriam as the cause Of it, till they
began to feel guilty as well as
unhappy. The executor of the
will, when n-applied to for the num-
hers of the notes. shrugged his
shoulders, and remarked more sat
irically than kindly upon the want
Of caution that had been shown.
If the young ladies had not been so
childishly eager to receive the
money In that form. this could not
have happened: while the police
pried about, aud rlimed out Of the
window, and on the roof, and came
back to ask more questions. aud
repeated their gyinnastic exercises
dd pd1SodD,, aud 20 OH until katie's
head achcd and Miriam's patients
was quite exhausted.
1T was plain as a pikestafT how
the robbery had been Effected
the inspector avered. "Thcre was
an empty house few doors off,
thronCh which the hnrClar OF