Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-12
AN ADVENTURE.
TCassells Marazine.I


window was thrown up, and my landlady's
head appeared.
''Who ere your she screamed.
s.Lets in, please; it's mer' 1 answered.
''Then, Mr.. Me, if you don't come home
before 10, you may stay out till mornin'.
I never wait up for my lodgers-my door
is closed at 1O!'' and then the window
closed with bang.
''No gor' thinks I. Il have no money. I'll
go to q railway station and wait in the
waiting room till morning." which resolu-
ton proceeded to carry out by walking
briskly for the bank.
l turned into Moorgate street,. and was
just thinking whether 1 should go to Lon
don, Brighton and South Coast, or the
London Bridge station. [ stopped to
think. There was a confectioner's shop
just in front of me. Oh, that it were open!
1 had three pence left.
Just at this moment tall, broad-Ehoul-
dered man can up to me and viewed me
from top to toe. I looked at him. He was
dressed in dark clothes; pea jacket and
clap-trap cloth hat, with peak lying level
on the forehead, gave me a feeling of awe.
The thought forced itself upon me that he
was garoter. He spoke first.
t.
on his nose.
'You've guessed it," said I, thinking it
best to agree with him, although my name
was Tom.
"Then come along!' and away We went.
"Did Butler give you e'er pistol?' he
asked.
NO." said I, beginning to tremble. "He
said he wanted them himself"
Ia Ia fnl rpQ nd
standing in Moorgate street, between -
and 1, opposite the eonfectioner's, with
your right hand in your pocket
''I'm in for it, thinks L; ''but must 60
through with it. But whatever will it come
to at all, at all?"
He led me through a labyrinth of
streets walking rather fast, till he emerged
upon the city road. Then he made straight
for the Angel, and from thence took cab
for Fleet street. What object he had in
doing this [ cannot say. He did not offer
to explain; in fact, not word passed be-
tween US till we got out at the top of Lud-
gate hill.
From thence we went into back street,
and out of that into another, no matter
which, and suddenly stopping opposite a
shop, exclaimed:
''There's our crib!''
lis it?" says l.
Whereupen he produced from his pocket
rule. The shop was evidently tailor's,
as it had bars standing out like the rungs
of a Jacobs ladder, from each side of the
door, to exhibit stock upon. My friend
stepped on the first of these, which was
three feet from the ground, and speedily
measured the height of a large glass fan
light over the door; then, stepping down
again, he measured the breadth of the
door, and as the fanlight was square, he
muUtered ID me by way of giving me its
dimensions:
''Three and half by two highv' and
chuckled quietly.
Then he crossed the road and followed,
he explaining that we must walt until the
policeman passed. He hove in sight about
ten minutes afterward, while we walked
past him. Then we waited till he returned.
This time we did not pass him, but watched
from a corner at distance.
''Twenty minutes and half between
going and coming" explained my com
panion. 'And handy beat; for he comes
up TO the corner there"-pointing to one
little beyond the shop-"and goes
down this street next ours"
The impression began to steal over me
that l was committing, or helping to COM
NIT, felony, and that if caught l might
get into trouble. I thought of RAINING
for it; but the remark my companion
made at that moment, to the effect that it
would be short run if I deserted him
flor he seemed to soc didn't like the job),
deferred me. I dared not explain that he
had made mistake, for felt sure that he
must have mistaken me for an ally of his
own. II must go through with it." thinks
1. HE'LL leave me outside to watch, and
I'll hook it them" SO went ON.
He crossed the street again the moment
the policeman was past interfering with
US, and producing piece of stout black
cloth he applied the rule thereto, holding
it against the shutters while he set out
''two and half by three thereon. This
done, he cut it within two inches of the
measurement all round; and then produc-
ing treacle-pot from his pocket, he
sneared one side of the cloth with
treacle, and, desiring me to hold it, he
mounted the shop door, SO to speak, again;
and gave him the cloth, which he imms-
diately clapped on to the skylight, the
treacle making 1t adhere firmly to the
glass. Then, looking at his watch, he
cried:
SPY gosh! he'll be here this minutew
and away we walked. A glance behind U.s.
as we turned the next corner Not yet in
sight! We stopped and waited, but the
policeman came not. Ny friend muttsrsd
an oath, adding, IN go. Come along;
but keep your weathsr-eye open" And
off we went.
perhaps he is watching Us" I suggest
ed. But the idea WAS discarded as not in
the nature of a policeman 'like that ore
we saw"
We arrived at the shop. He mounted
again, and drove string through hole
in the cloth. Then he ran diamond round
the edge OF the glass. A gentle pat, AID
it gave way. Now 1 saw the use of the
cloth and string. He could hold the glass
by the string; and he slowly let it down
into the shOr, and producing long shaped
pad, he laid it along the bottom of the
fanlight to cover the glass edge, and threw
one leg into the opening and got astride
it!
"Follow me-" he nuttered, and ducksd
his head under the door head. But before
he could draw in the other leg 1 mounted
the ladder, and, Selling it, gave him phil
that kept him from going in, at the same