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get in through the scUllery window about
! II. M, then he'll pass through the h1cis
and front Kitchens and into the buffers
pantry only It's a butlcress, cos Three
ain't no mtcl at all--and there he'll set 70
work Oh the safe. Some of his late pals in
Portland give him the tip about this re
job
How did you come to hear OF it2'
asked
Never mind, guv'nor. You wouldn't
Understand Now, wants you to ur 1p
there tonight and 10 nab Light TOed jim
red handed, so to speak lt'il mean pro
motion for you, and it suit m" down to
the ground You wants to be about and
TO watch MIN enter Then follow him and
dog him. And be armed. officer for Jjn'il
fight like "A tiger If you don't draw hs
teeth FIRST"
"Now, look here, my man" said /; "this
10 all very wall, bun it's all irregular Yuu
must Just tell me who you are and how
you come to be in Light Toed Jip's So
crets, and III put Ii down in black and
white"
l turned away from him TO got my writ
ing materials | was not half minute
with my back TO him, bat when turned
round he was goncl The door was shut,
but had heard no sound from Il either
opcnluc or shutting. O1ck IA Thought |
dartei 10 II, tore Il wide open, and looked
down the narruw staircase. There was no
one there. ran hastily down stairs into
the passage, and found my lardlady, Mrs.
Mariner, standing at the open door wi h
a female friend, airs. Mariner" said,
/ breaking in upon their CONGREGATION,
(which wy DID That man 20 VINO came
! down stairs just nowt"
/ Mrs Mariner looked NJ me strangely.
/ "Thpre ain't been no man come down stairs
4 Mr.. Parker" said "lcast wGys MOI TINS
good three quarters Of an hour, which mo
and Missis Higgins ere, a. ave come out
TO take an airing, her having been ironing
all this blessed dHv, has been st7ndin here
/ all The time and ain't never seen Il s0ul.'
Nonsense" said. "a man came down
from my room just now-the man yon sent
up twenty minutes since"
Mrs Mariner looked at me with an ex-
preston betokonlng the most profound
astonishlnent. Mrs. Higgins s. qhed deeply.
"Nr. Parker" said Mrs. Mariner, sorry
am to suy it, sir, but you're either intoXi-
Caten or else you're s-sickening for brain
fever. sir. There amt no person entered
this door. In or out, for nigh onto an hour,
as me and Missis Higgins ere will take our
Bible oaths on"
went up stairs and looked in the rooms
on either side of mine The man was not
there. ! looked under my bed, and OF
course he WAS not there. He must have
gone down stairs But then the women
must have seen hin. rhcrc was only one
door to the house. gave it mp III despair
and began TO smoke my pipe. BY the time
had drawn the last wAj!f decided that
If any one was "iutoxicated," it was proba-
bly, Mrs. Mariner amt Mrs. NiGeirs, and
that my strange visitor had departed by
the door WAS not going to believe that
lie had anything supernatural about him.
had DO duty that night; and as the
hours wore on found myself stern in my
resolve 70 90 mp 10 Miss ~inyleton's house
and see what could make ont OF my in
formant's story. II WAS nay opinion that
my late visitor was d whilUm "pal" of
Light Toed Jim'a, and that having become
aware of the latter's plot, he had, for some
reason Of his own. decided to split on his
old chum Thieves disagreement is an
honest mans opportunity, and | deter
mined to solve the truth of the story told
me. Lest il should come to nothing, de-
cded not to report the matter to my
chief. If could really capture Light Voed
Jim, my success would be all the more
brilliant by being suddenly sprung upon
the uuthorites.
made my plan OF action RAPIDLY. took
revolver with Inc and went up to Miss
SinEleton's house Fortunately, | knew
the hopsekeper there--a middle aged
strougminded woman, not easily fright.
ennd, which was good thing. To her
Communicated such Information rs l con-
sdered necessary. She consented to con-
ccal me in the room where the safe stood
There was a cupboard close by the safe
from which could command "A full view
of the burglars operations and pounre
upon him at the riaht moment If ouly
my Information was TO be relied upon
there was every chance Of my capturing
the famous burglar
soon after midnight, VIXEN the house was
all 4niet, vent to the pantry and got into
the cupboard, locking myself in. There
were two openings in the panel through
either of which | was able TO, command 8
full view Of the room. Ny position WAS
somewhat cralnped, but the time soon
passed away. Ny mind was principally oc
cupi-d in wondering if was really about
to have a chance Of distinguishing myself
Somehow, there was an air of urrraity
about the events of the evening which puz
lied me
Suddenly | heard q sound which put me
on the alert ut once 1t vas nothing more
than the creaIdn; Of u board or opening O,
door would mako in quiet house; but j,
sounded intensified to my exptcrant ears
! drew myself up against the door of the
cupboard and placed my eye to the open
ing in the panel, had oiled the key ofthC
door, and Kept my fingers Il Jon it in reudi-
ness to spring upon the burglar at the
proper moment After what seemed som,