The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13

fail to appropriate for his own use and
behoof.
Salano had scarcely completed pack
ing up the valuables when the somnolent
beauty moved uneasily on her couch and
manifested signs of awakening. He
seized the precious casket, and sprang
with cat-Gke silence and agility into
what he supposed to be closet or ward
robe, but in reality it was dumb-waiter,
communicating with the kitchen below.
Imagine his astonishment, then, when,
in a moment more he found himself
sprawling on the floor of the culinary
apartment, while million or two of
| stars of the first magnitude were dane
ing before his bewildered eyes. The
cook, who was entertaining a male
friend, was fully persuaded that the ap-
partition in the black domino descending
SO suddenly by the dumb-waiter could
be no less parsonage that .Satdnas him
self, and thereupon she set up a series of
hysterical screeches that would have
awakened the dead. Her lover was no
whit less frightened than herself, and
in attempting to secrete himself i'll the
fireplace he brought his naked feet in
contact with the living Goals of fire
which the cook had recently covered
with ashes, and he burned them severely,
and the pain caused by the burning
cinders made him leap so suddenly that
he overturned kettle of boiling water
sitting upon the hob, and in the agony
and terror he rolled upon the floor, and
howled and prayed to his patron saint
in a manner at once ludicrous and pain
full to behold.
The cook was the first to recover pres
ence of mind, which she Immediately
made manifest by an absence of body,
for she fed uttering piercing screams,
leaving her companion to his fate, what
ever it might be.
In the passage she encountered Don
Alamada, and the appearance of sec
ond specter in a somber domino added,
if possible, to the terror of the frightened
domestic, and she vanished up the stairs
; before mentioned with dispatch that
would have done credit to the most agile
harlequin.
The way being clear, Salano joined his
companion, and the two escaped from
the house, and ere long were at theil
, lodgings engaged in inspecting and di
{ viding their booty.
The piercing screams of the fright
/ ened cook and the howls of the boorisf
: lover soon aroused the entire house, anC
= it was some time before its master coulC
t gain any clue to the origin of the terri
BILE clamor. The cook insisted that al
| apparition of a man bedecked with rib
= bons and tinsel like mstddor, and fol
t lowed by specter bull, and roaring il
anger and breathing sulphurous flame
= from his nostrils, had suddenly emerged
i from the dumb-waiter. while her love
:. with teeth chattering with terror stoutl
|, maintained that it was most certainl
a the evil one, inasmuch as he had see
his barbed tail and closely observed hi
r cloven hoofs.
o 1t is scarcely necessary to add that L
le Bonita On New Years Day acquired tn
nuch-coveted diamond ring, but with
+ week she decamped for Paris, escorte
It by a well-known gambler and roue; and
l. few days later Salano and Don Alamad
IF were arrested and thrown into prison
If the authorities of Barcelona havin
it traced the robbery to them by means {
e. some of the gems which they attempted
dispose Of being recognized by the me
as chants of the city.