Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-01-22
EDICINE LODGE KANSAS WEDNESDAY. JANUARY %. 1890

n am sorry to say that at this NV
father swore.
What do you want to 60 back for2'
be said.
"'Just to think of it! have left open
the window in which that beautiful
child was sleeping. If it should take
cold and die from the damp air of the
river blowing upon it l should never
forgive myself. o. if had only thought
Of climbing up the trellis again and
pulling down that sash. l am sure I
could go back and do it without making
the least noise My father gave grunt,
but what the grunt meant I do not
know, and for few moments he was
silent, and then he said:
"'Thomas, you can not go back, the
distance is too great, the tide is against
US, and it is time that you and I are
both in our beds. Nothing may happen
to that baby, but, attend to my words
now, if any harm should come to that
child it will go hard with you. II it
should die it would be of no use for
you to talk about practical jokes. You
would be held responsible for it's death.
i was going to say to you that it might
be as we'll for you not to say any thing
ao0>st this little venture until l had
,een how Williamson Green took the
joke. Some people ,get angry with
very little reason, although 1 hardly
believe he's that sort of man, but now
things are different. He thinks all the
world of that child, which is the only
one they've got, and if you want to stay
outside of Jail or the house of refuge
! warn you never to say word of where
you have been this night
with this he began TO row again,
and followed his example, but with a
very heavy heart. ALI that night 1
dreamt of the little child with the
damp night winds blowing in upon it. >
Ibid you ever hear if it caught cold?"
asked Aunt Martha.
NO." replied the burglar, 81 never
did. / mentioned the matter to my
father, and he said that he had great
fears upon the subject, for although he
had written to Williamson Green, ask
ing him to return the instruments, he
had not seen him or heard from him, and
he was afraid that the child had died or
my father sent me on a little trip to the
Long Island coast to collect some bills
from people for whom he had done work.
He gave me money to stay week or
two at the sea-shore, saying that the
change would do me good, and it was
while / was away on this delightful hol-
iday that an event occurred which had a
most disastrous effect upon my future
life. My father was arrested for burg
laryi
sit appeared, and / can not tell you
how shocked l was when 1 discovered
the truth, that the box which had car
ried away did not contain nautical in
struments, but was filled with valuable
plate and jewels. My unfortunate
father heard from a man who had been
discharged from the service of the fam
lily whose house he had visited-whose
ZANE by the way was not Green-where
the box containing the valuables men,
toned was always placed at night, and he
had also received accurate information in
| regard to the situation of the rooms
and the best method of gaining access
to them.
''I believe that some arrangement had
been made between my father and this
discharged servant in regard to a di-
vision of the contents of the box, and it
was on account of disagreement upon
this subject that the man became very
angry, and after pocketing what my
father thought was his fair share he de-
parted to unknown regions, leaving be-
hind note to the police, which led to
my fathers arrest"
''That was mean trick" said Aunt
Martha.
The burglar looked at her gratefully.
SIN the lower spheres of life, madam,
such things often happen. Some of the
plate and jewels were found in my