The morning call., 1890-11-17
KISSED BY A BURGLAR.
The Story of a Girrs Midnight Adventur
That Is Told III San Francisco.

The Story of Gtrps Midnight Adventure
That Is Told IN San Francisco.
81 heard the oldest Of all burglar stories
when / was out on the Pacific Coast" said
New Yorker who las just returned from
there. at was told me as having happened
to a household in suburb of San Fran
cisco. Private detectives were employ ed to
hunt the desperate, but the fear of public
ity hid the case from the authorities. In tile
front hall room on the second floor Of de-
tached house slept the daughter of the
house, the Utler members of the
family being only her father and
mother. The Chinese servant was in all
probability at some friends laundry or
over IN San Francisco smoking opium, as
those servants are almost certain to be after
nightfall. But he does not count, at any
rate. TIE young lady was not asleep. She
WAS in very POOR health, and part of her
ailmeDt was all Inability 10 sleep, except in
cat maps. She heard noise on the porch
beneath her window, and moment later
her window was thrown upen and a man
stepped lightly into the room. Without
halting to see If his action had aroused any
one be- passed along the very narrow passage
between her bed ana l!er irunk-a way so
narrow that IL was the young ady's custom
TO sit on her bed and search her trunk, and
to lace her shoes by putting one foot at a
| time upon the trunk while she was seated
on the bed.
AS the burglar passed along beside the
| bed he dropped one hand upon the young
| woman'S head, and then let it remain in
| that position as he moved, and it swept
| along her side over the bed-ciothes. But
| when his hand reached her feet he pinched
one OF her toes, gently and mischiev0usly,
and passed out of the room into the hall
| She did not dare to scream, nor did she care
| 10 venture out after the thief. While she
lay there, dreadfully frightened and Won
| dering what 10 do, back came the man. He
stood in her room. closed and locked the
door. and then sat down upon the bed
Nov, said lie, in a gentle voice, not at
all modulated to avoid being heard, Il know
that you are awake, and | am going to sit
here and talk with you. Upon my honor as
burglar Of reputation and good instincts,
/ will not hurt you. In only one way will L
tansgress the rules of good breeding. l
am going t6 kiss you, that Is ALL
''rhe young woman found Ter voice and
screamed.
"'Oh,' said the burglar, I am sorry you
are frightened. l have half mind to go
away and come again when you are more
accustomed to my presence. But, no; | can
not do that. l only mean to take one kiss
"At this point her screams were at her
loudeSt, and the noise she made was such as
to wake any but a dead household. one
would have thought.
~ really wish You would not do that,
said the burglar. 1t will not deter me-
What do 1care? can only die at the out
side, and l am not the least afraid to die.
nave seen you again and again on the
streets, and have made up my mind to risk
everything in order to kiss y0u-to kiss you
when you are awake, and know that / am
stealing the favor, for / would not risk
day in Jail to kiss woman asleep. Well, if
You won't stop screaming cannot see any
use in delaying
Here he put an arm under the girls
shoulders, and gently raising her body he
bent his own and kissed her on the lips as
lightly and respectfully as if she had been
MS maiden aunt. win that he lowered
her, still screaming, to her pillow and leaped
out of the window. Her screams brought
her father and mother, all too late, and they
found her able to tell all that had taken
place. Yet in an hour she had grown de-
lirious, and it was a month before she was
even mentally herself again. The bravo
was never captured. New York Sun.