Nevada County picayune., 1891-07-02
GIRLS AND BURGLARS.
Throo Girls Relate Their Adven-
 lures with Thieves.

lures with Thieves.
 They sat up late last night, but they had fairly good excuses for prowling about in the dark corridors of the boarding house in the small hours. The red-he adcd girl, who Is q stcnugraphcr, had great many folios to click out on her typewriter, and the colossus of t girl who is studying at Barnard col lege was unable to go to sleep for the clicking, and the jolly girl who is drawing at Cooper nion sat with her head on one side hour after hour try ing to finish a face that gave her no end of trouble. In he end she threw her crdyon at it's nose and tiptocd across the hall
 As she softly pushed the door open the Barnard girl who was bending sleepily over something Greek, Nprang with a start from her chair. What would you have done asked the Cooper Union girl, if I had really been burglar?"
 The typewriter who roomcd with the Barnard girl turned mp her machine to make sure of the last letter. Il think" she answered, that as it is always good policy to be ho>pitablc, should have said, as do now, in my politcst manner; Won't you have a chair
 But. really" said the tall Barnard girl, as she bent to pick up her scat tered sheets of queer, crabhcd charac- tcr,. "I often thinl, ot it when | have to go away doWnstair, at this hour of night, when they've turned out the gas on every landing to find a book I've left in the front hall start with four or five matches. bat there's always a draught that blows them out or they won't light except on the box, and l forget the box, and l say to myself as l poke around on the cold marble slab of that hat stand: What should do If my fingers touched something?'"
 Feel of it, l should suppose re- piled the Cooper Union girl, ito see if 1t weren't the book you were hunting for"
 But in sober earnest persisted the timid colossus, what would you do if you were all alone and you met a burglar?'
 'I'n tell you," said the typewriter facing about in her chair, "what | did when l met mine"
 "Nou've really seen one?' The Cooper Union girl and the Barnard girl bent forward. The clock struck one. It was delightfully."- weird hour for story telling.
 "Wcu, not to say a whole burglar, but I saw his fingers They were very long, and slender, and dirty
 ''Nherc was the rest of him?'
 "Out on the garden path. You see, it was at home, out on Long Island, two or three summers ago. l wrote verses then You mightn't believe it, but one set was really copied into a New York newspaper, did it mostly at night after the folks had gone to bed, and this night there wasn't any body to go to bed, for mother and l were spending month alone, and mother had been sent for to watch with sick neighbor
 ''Thc verses were about a knight and some pond lilies. forget the exact connection between them, but it was very pathetic, and if made me cry. l usually did cry over my verses, and that was why l stopped writing them that and the trouble it was to find rhymes
 "I was very much interested in the knight lmt of a sudden stopped cry ing and writing, for had the most cu- rious sensation, as if somebody were looking at me"
 The Cooper Union girl and the Bar nard girl said; "Go on,'
 "I looked up at picture that was on the wall. .t had queer eyes and the man it was painted from was dead, and l never liked it, especially late in the evening, but 1t didn't seem to be star ing in my direction any harder than usual Then noticed that both doors were shut and then something pulled my head around toward the window
 Again the Cooper nion girl and the Barnard girl said: "Go on"'
 "1Gerc were outside blinds-grccn blinds, you know; l had shut them when l lighted the lamp and had left the window open. It seemed to me that ono h'ad moved. l Winkcd the last of the tears away and looked again. One llirl was certainly aiar, hut if it he'd u.oycj at all it had stopped nov iur. l.at my h'ad over my paper but .yp, & sidouj-, lookout through my la.H la ainute or two the blind ma,Il again; l was sure of it this timc My hc@rt dumped and forgot all aaout tsc knight and the pond lilies In minute 1 saw, as told, you, fin ocr, A hand had taken a firm grasp of ,h, blind that it might not bang, and tha long, brovui~h fingers had slipped around on the inside"
 The Barnard girl said, brcuthlcssly: "What dN you do?'
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