Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-04

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street chiefly devoted to tenemenleuses
dirt and squalling children. T.
About eleven o'clock that nigb man
very carefully looked over the fee that l
separated the aforesaid garden bm the a
aforementioned lane. Lookig cae-
fully around, he drew from hispocket
pair Of pinchers, and commenced beak- |
ing off short few of the spikes hat I
were on the top of the fence, and I'D t
been put there. presume, fer the & f
press purpose of annoying th, neighb- i
ing cats. Is
After counting the number he b
broken off, by feeling them with | \
-.---as L. ---@f.llu nlimbed to the top \ a
the fence, and then lowered hims&M !
the garden. .
"Blame the things!' he muttered,
having alighted in the middle of lilac
bush, which slightly scratched him,
''there's always something to interfere
with fellows business"
Having extricated himself from the
bush, he crept stealthily toward the yard
door, applied his ear to the key-hole,
and listened.
"Humph all quiet. So far so good.
Now to business"
He produced an augur from one of the
numerous pockets of his coat, and then
began to bore a hole-so quietly that you
could hardly hear tin the door. When
he had finished, he put his arm through
the ori6ce. quietly withdrew the bolt,
and entered the house.
When he was inside, by the aid of
dark lantern. he groped his way to the
bottom of the basement stairs and then
began ascending them. glancing with
keen and penetrating eyes at every OBJ.
ject around him. On dumb-waiter
near the dinlng-room door fork had
been left, no doubt by the carelessness of
one of the servants. His eyes rested
upon it; he went up to it and examined
it carefully.
"Plated ~ he exclaimed, in tone of
disgust, and put it down sgain.
Quietly, and as cautiously as before,
he ascends the next flight of stairs tries
the handle of door: it yields to him;
he pushes it slowly and noiselessly open;
puts In his head finds it only the bath
room so closes the door, and ascends
the next flight of stairs.
He hears key being put into the
lock at the hall dnnr l. z '='--'.'~ Dreatl
and listens attentively. Whoever it is
closes the hall door behind them, and
begins to climb the hall stairs; he does
the same.
At last the top of the stairs is reached;
the footsteps are coming n,arer, and at
last actually begin to ascend the last
fight, at the head of which he is. He
pushes open door, glance hurriedly
around the room, finds tits vacant.
rushes to the bed and eraMs UNDER
neatn.
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At late hour at night Frel Grover
returns to his boarding house, tired and
disconsolate. He has been unable to
raise any money, consequently IL the
morning he would have to seek ther
quarters to live IN.
When he entered his room he thew
himself into chair. lighted his PIPE,
and pufed out thick columns of smoke,
musing as he did So:
"What fool I've been; spent all my
money, and must either beg. borrow or
cheat during the next six months to i've.
By Jove 4! | must leave off this spreeng.
It's unfair to my father to spend his
money in the way | have been doing,'i
Fred started up, and placing his foe
head against the window pane, look,d
out upon the cold dark night.
"What shame it is that money is
not more equally distributed now that
old fellow down stairs. they say. is
running over with money. [ wonder if
he would lend me little if were to
ask him Pshaw! the idea is absurd.
How the duece am to face Mrs. jack
son in the morning don't know
"Ah-catch-chew u
"What's that? 1t sounded confount-
edly like sneeze. Hal" And Frd
rushed to corner of the room, seizeda
sword cane. drew it and looked cal.
tiously under the bed.
The first thing that met his gaze wa
the gentleman who, a short time pre-.
viously, had climbed over the gardIr
, fence.
"What do you want? Come out frof
there ?" m
The man came from under the be-
} stood upright, and glared sullenly u
|, Fred.
"Now my good fellow, what were yov
| doing there ?" e
, "What's the good of talking !? Yo
$ know as well as do what was dois
there said the man. asa
0 "You want to rob the house, I SUI
e pose ?'' 't ssaa III ii S seas
e "This amt police court. is it ? Tax
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