The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-10-18

give bail"
3For how muchsn
Twenty thousand dollars"
| "Can't you get some one to become securi-
tya"
4 don't know. Perhaps might get Oak
hulst!"
Irene WINGED but did not answer the taunt.
Goodbye, my dear. and independent sis
teri"
Irene turned her back upon him, con-
| founded between sorrow and resentment.
Crowding his hat over his eyes, Mr.. Nor.
cross left his house and went with the officer
towards police headquarters
.Gone to jail!" exclaimed George. return
/ ing. "How doosid awkward! What q iolly
WOW it will make when it gets about town!
! BY gwacious, il you aren't cwyingi Go tc
bed, both of you; I'll go to the club
He went accordingly, and the women.
who could i'll console each ether, were about
to go to their own rooms when the door-bell
rang again.
"What next, wonderw asked Irene, in
despair.
"Please, Ma'am,n said the servant, "there's
a man at the door, who looks quare. and saws
if he can't see Mr.. Norcross he must see you. .
"Tell him | am ill-and besides, don't
transact my brothers business"
"Yes'm."
But she soon returned with new message.
The man would not go. Mrs. Norcross at
once weni to the hall to learn what was the
matter, leaving Irene trembling in every
! limb The conversation was not carried on
in whispers; in fact, Irene heard every word.
4 "Sorry to disturb you Ma'am. especially
] so~ofI L.
duty, and must be tended to. Ny orders is.
| to 'tach the furnitur', and stay till git re.
ceipter."
Mrs. Norcross' reply was inaudible. The
voice proceeded
"Can't help it, Ma'am. Won't be back to-
night, won't hes Bad, cert'in. But duty is
duty, as I said afore. I'll bunk here on the
sofy, an tomorrow we'll see what's to be
DONE"
Another pause.
ooh, you won't run off 18th anything? /
s'spose not But duty is duty, as I said afore,
and must mind orders: Stick by till YOU
| git receipter.' seq he. 4 WILL seq Ian
must-Never mind about bedclose. | en-
sleep jest ez be. You jest go upstairs. RI
make myself It home"
Glad to be out of the society of the officer
Mrs. Norcross started to goup-stairs but was
recalled by the voice.
! II say Ma'am! A long night afore chap,
/ all by himself"
] Mrs. Norcross trembled with mingled ter
ror and rage.
"No objection to light the gas. spose,
so'st Teller can read a paper. Thought O.
that and brought couple along Ii you
don't like tobarker, you en- shet your doors
and the smell won't git in"
"Do what you like can't prevent you. +"
ooh, well, no fence, | hope: Good night,
! Ma'an."
/ Mrs. Norcross found Irene walking about
the room in great excitement.
"The odious wretch" exclaimed Irene. elf
William were only here, or even George, he
should be horse whipped, pitched out of the
house. To sleep with his dirty clothes on my
sofal I'm glad it's to be sold. never could
touch the filthy thing again. Then his pipel
Good heavens! what is to be done? The
abominable wretch! I smell the tobacco
now. The smoke will be all through the
house. Faugh! it suffocates. nauseates mel"
"Be calm, Irene. We will go to the upper
chambers, shut the doors, and open the win
dows for fresh air. It's only for one night.
We can't 60 away, you know: and we can't
get the fellow away, of course"
/ II wish had died when I was sick. This
| disgrace, this infamy, this shocking barbar-
ity, il worse than death. What are we to dos
and where are we to goo Ruin is light
thing to talk about / have read of ruin in
the papers, until it has become matter IF
course begin to know what it means"
1t was changeful, terrible beauty that
L hoe, ooI 20 11o
spired priestess before the altar, then like
Norma in her despair, then like the mad
/ dened Medea in Rachel's thrilling impersona-
ton. Then disgust and fright overcame her,
and her sensitive womanly nature bore
sway 1t was more than she could bear, this
/ accumulation Of misfortune, disgrace, and
] insult Her soul rebelled, contended desper-
ately with fate, till, overcome, she sank into
her chair and suffered herself to be led to
! her ROOM
Shut up in their retreat, the women waited
for the morning with sleepless eyes, or with
only transient lapses of consciousness. Some
time after midnight, they were startled by
the sound Of a body falling heavily in the
hail. and, an instant after, by the shout
of "Burglarsl thieves!" They rushed to the
staircase in extreme fright, and soon learned
the cause. The wary officer evidently did
not believe the tale that had been told him
respecting the absence of Mr.. Norcross and,
that nobody should go out or in without his
knowledge. he had drawn the sofa across the
hall, completely cutting off all passage A
small jet Of gas was left burning. George,
returning late from the club in mild stage
/ OF inebriation, entered the house by means OF
his latch-key, not without difficulty, and at
once fell headlong over the sofa, and the
worthy official sleeping thereon. When he
heard the cry of "Burglars!" it occurred tc
him that he must have been knocked down
by one of the gang; and he joined his own
voice to the uproar,-
"BuggLARs! buggLARS!"
An instant after there was grip on his
! collar.
aNow got ye, ye vill'n! What ye dom
| on here?"
i What youdoin'on, you rasc'l, inagen1'.
| m'nshouse thistim'o'night"
/ Answer me- you scoundrel breakn' into
/ peaceful dwellin'm
'toknow. = How'd you
/ com'ere? What'syerbusinesss Le,gomycollar.
1 Tllsen'forp'lice Le'gow
/ Tpsy as he was, he managed to give his
assailant pretty substantial token of regard
under the ear, with his knuckles
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