Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-15
KISSED BY A BURGLAR.
The Story ola Girls Midnight Adventure
That is Told in San Francisco.

From the 81. Louis Star Sayings
Il heard the oldest Of all burglar stories
when was out on the Pacific coast" said
New Yorker who had just returned from there.
1t was told to me as having happened to q
household in q suburb OF San Francisco.
Private detectives wero employed 20 hunt the
desperado, but the fear OF publicity hid the
case from the authorities. In the front hall
room. on the second floor of a detached house
slept the daughter of the house. the other
members OF the family being only her father
and mother. The Chinese servant was, IN al
probability, at some friends laundry or over
in San Francisco smoking opium, as those
servants are almost certain TO be after night
fall. But he does not count, at any rate.
The young lady was not asleep. She was in
very poor health, and part of her al!ment
was an inability to sleep, except in cat maps.
She heard a noise on the porch beneath her
window, and q minute later her window WAS
thrown open and man stepped lightly into
! the room. Without hating TO see If his action
had reused anyone he passed along the very
narrow passage between her bed and her trunk
a way so narrow that II was the young lady's
custom to sit on her bed and search her trunk
and to lace her shoes by putting one foot at
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 il swept along her side over the
bed clothes. But when his hand reached her
feet he pinched one of her toes, gently and mis-
cbievously, and passed out Of the room into the
hall. She did not dare to scream, nor did she
| care TO venture out after the thief. While she
lay there, dreadfully frightened and wondering
what TO do. back came the man. He stood in
| her room, closed and locked the door, and then
| sat down upon the bed.
Now said he, in gentle voice not at all
modulated to avoid being heard, L know that
| you are awake, and am going to sit here and
talk with you. Upon my honor as a burglar
| of reputation and good instincts will not hurt
| you. In only one way will transgress the
rules Of good breeding. 1 am going to kiss
| you, that is all
"The young woman found her voice and
ooh said the burglar, 4 am sorry you are
| frightened. / have half a mind TO go away
| and come again when you are more accustomed
| to my presence. But. no; 1 cannot do that.
only mean to take one kiss
AT this point her screams were at her loud
| est, and the noise she made was such TO
wake any but a dead household, one would have
thought.
al really wish you would not do that said
| the burglar. 1t will not deter me. What do
I care? l can only die at the outside, and / am
not in the least afraid to die. l have seen you
| again and again on the streets. and / have
made up my mind to risk anything in order TO
| hiss sou-to MSS you Wnen you are awake, ana
| know am not 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
shoulder and gently raising her body he bent
| his own and kissed her on her lips as lightly
and respectfully as if she had been his Made n
aunt. With that he lowered her, still scream
ing, to her pillow, and leaped out the window.
Her screams brought her father and mother,
lall fnnl afa nd har 10 fnf all all
| that had taken place. Yet in an hour she had
grown dellrious. and it was a month before she
was even mentally herself again. The bravo
| was never captured"