Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-12-17

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ly obeyed. What is it? said the
foremost. looking down on the heap OF
blackencd papers on which he mad
stepped.
" A thief sobbed Hester, land l
am ali alone
/ She was so afraid Of their reprOaches
! for the false alarm, all her strength OF
nerve was gone at the sight OF them
The door of her room shook, and the
miscreant cried aloud the vilest threats.
Ii he had missed the chance of escaping,
for the iiremen had broken in below, J
he wanted them to find him in her com
| pany, not knowing Of the entrance OF
the foreman and his friends by the
ladder.
Signing to Ter to keep back. they, in
IN moment moved the furniture,
undil the bolt, and the man fell
, headlong into the room just as the
other men were mounting the stairs.
Ovcrpowered by numbers lie was quick
ly bound hand and foot and taken be-
low. The little lobby table was Oc-
cupied by the bundles he had made
ready to carry Off, and his pockets were
found filled with articles stolen from
/ VIC ItiloIo' az LHlo yuuStulC 4hE.
Stanhope drove up in hack which he
had been half way to Boston to procure.
and it was immediately made available
to Garry the burglar Off to Jail, with as
| many OF his captors as could find room
in it or out of it.
Mr.. Stlnhope was perfectly frantic on
reaching his quiet house, to find it in
the possessions of the fire brigade. lie
had heard the fire alarm without the
least apprehension for his own belong
ings. Hester, Hester" he cried, in
| an agony of terror, whilst the hremen
were too busy with their capture to
have any answer to give him. Indeed,
those below had not seen any woman.
He was called up stairs by a frien dly
voice, and found Hester explaining and
excusipg herself to the two or three,
who, Invested of their helmets, she
could recognize as a"quaintances.
They were, in reply. reassuring her she
had done good service to the commu-
nifty in the securing of so desperate a
scoundrel. AS soon as she saw her
father she rushed forward to throw her
self IN his arms. AS he embraced her
she shrieked with pain.
ooh, my darling child, what has
happened to you? Are you hurt ~
1t was o cry of terrible pain, bat she
said family, "Oh, it is nothing only
my hand"
And the foreman, taking off the
singed cloak, revealed hand and wrist,
burnt and swollen, and blistered. The
sudden rubbing against the rough over
coat her father wore, had rubbed the
skin off, and the poor arm looked very,
very sore.
The fire brigade, now drawing off,
were hastily told to send the doctor;
and in searching for liniments and soft
rags, and lime water and sweet oil and
molasses, and all or any of the remedies
that are sometimes too unthinkingly
applied, the unhappy Jane was found
in the kitchen, tied and gagged. She
was so ill from the rude usage she had
met with she could tell but little about
the burglar, who had come in upon her
as she was washing the cups, and
gagged and blindfolded her before he
tied her fast.
Testers arm and hands were 80
severely burnt that the doctors attend
ance was protracted over two months.
But his unremitting care was fully
equalled by Mr.. Henry Lawrence. the
young foreman of the fire brigade,
whose visits of inquiry continued even
after perfect cure was effected, and
only a few scars remained to show
where the deepest burns had been. He
quite lost his heart to the brave girl
so prompt in q desperate emergency.
1t may be imagined, that brave and
prompt himself, he valued courage as
the very chief of virtues; but he had
the pleasure Of finding that this cour.
ageous girl possessed many other vir-
tues besides daring in danger. When
the cherry trees were in full leaf, and
laden with their delicious fruit, there
was quiet wedding at the old cottage,
and Peter Stanhope gave away his
daughter to brave man who knew how
to value the treasure given to him.
As to the burglar, he was recognized
at once as an old offender, and at that
time an escaped convict, with reward
offered for his capture. The five hun
dred dollars were very cheerfully paid
to Miss Stanhope, who gave one hun
bred of it to the firemen's fund, and
the remainder came in very nicely to
help out the wedding outfit, and thus
all the deserving and meritorious in
my story did not come to any harm or
loss by the false alarm.--Selected.