St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-08-22

opened Il and stepped out on the p
! ARA"
"And you Saw"
Nothing; Il was . very dark night
but l heard = jump and a scamper an
then the dogs next door began to bar
and the moon came out . bit and thre
dark figures went tearing up the stree
with the dogs and two or three mel
from the neighbors' after them. Yo
see. after all, it's . very tame story
The burglars were never caught Tws
Of them had tried the house next dool
and ono was reconnoiterin0 me. Blu
I've wondered sometimes II haa
stopped to think should I have gone
and opened the door?"
"Now." said the Cooper Union girl
'I'm going to tell you my burgla'
story"
"You!" said both the others: 'shav,
you seen q burglar?" They drew clos,
together and tho Barnard girl pulled ,
shawl about her shoulders
"An up and down section Of ono mo-
very wide. though considerably greater
in extent than fingerA"
The typewriter left her chae and
curled mp among the pillows OF the BIZ
old lounge. The clock struck the hall
hour.
1T was Decoration day. was board
ing ut my brothers and everybody HAD
gone ont Even the kitchen girl had
leave to sec tho parade. ! got home
first Of the family 1t about noon
When I entered the front hall I saw
my brothers little detective camera in
the middle Of the door. I thought Il
rather funny, and It gave me . second
surprise when I saw great black prints
As of huge hand on thew al beside the
stairs. sat down ON the hall scttee
and picked mp the camera; somebody
had tried to pry It open. The burglar
had dropped it In disgust when Il failed
to yield easily; clearly he was gone.
Stin l tiptocd about with . certain de.
gree of caution. The parlor and din
ing-room were empty and in good
order. I went quietly upstairs TO my
own room.
This was empty. but not In good
order. Everything In It had been
turned upside down. The mattress
was stripped or the bed, oil the draw.
ers had been pulled out Of the bureau,
and all my small lsces and ribbons lay
with the clean linen In . heap. tramp
led by dirty boot heels. could have
cried Mt the havoc. but just then I
heard . sound"
The Barnard girl shivereti Then
she rose and threw herself down on
the couch pillows beside the typewriter.
The typewriter begged . share OF the
shawl They huddled in . bunch under
the one wrapping. They said" Go ony'
at seemed to come from the next
room. which belonged to my sistcr.in-
law. There was . door between and
ON her side there was . portiere. Was
the burglar still in the house? lis
tened; dared not take . step in any
direction. heard somcbody-whistle.
Could my brother have come home?
Was he looking over the ruins? Tho
tune was Annie Rooney I had heard
my brother whistle IL that morning.
Could it be he?
II crept to the door and opened Il
softly, peeping around the portierc. I
saw an mp and down section Of . man.
He was 1t the moment half in and half
out Of my sisters closet; he was not
my brother"
The clock struck two. The big Bar
nard girl moved under her shawl un-
easily.
Il crept back TO my room and into
ny closet curled up behind the door.
L was separated from the other closet
,nly by q thin partition, and ! was
afraid he would hear my heast beat.
but dared not risk going downstairs
The man kept whistling, and-my story
S . tame ono, too - by and by he went
lway. As there was no money in the
rouse, and he uidnt apparently seek
he dining-room m for silver. he got little
" nothing"
The Barnard girl sat bolt upright
Didn't you hear the stairs creak?" she
lslctl. Il suppose I might rs well wind
Up this seance with . burglar Of my
,wn."
"You have seen one, too!' exclaimed
he chorus
.Ycs, q whole one = fingers feet, up
md down. and across sections But
lidn't the stairs creak?"
''One each 10 enough for three young
'Oh, you're nervous. that's all:
here's no one there"
''Elc got into the house one night and
woke up and he was rummaging my
,ureau. I was frightened out Of my
enses. but I shut my eyes and made
'elievc I was sound asleep had read
that was the proper thing
do"
.Why don't you tell the rest?"
There isn't any rest; he was like
he others: he got out Of the window
nd went down the piazza trcllis."
And you didn't give the alarm"
II? Oh. I tainted; but the hall hoor
resls. surely"
sGirls-"
All three sprang up with Q nervous
tart, and the clock struck the half
our.
Girls. Il Il half-past two and you
re keeping everybody on this floor
wake" It was the woman who does
hildrcn's stories and who has the small
all bedroom.
The Cooper Union girl rose to return
, her own chamber. ''But, after all" J"
be said, ''we've not settled what TO do
we aAcsd see each her second bur
lar before morning."-N. Y. Recorder.
No Chance 6oe Mistakes.
He had been out In ono Of the west
m territories. which one IL is not nee
ssary here to state, and was in . safe
lace two thousand miles east, when .
IAN asked him about Q certain hemp
ope social which had occurred while