Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-01-10
AN AMoRous BURGLAR.

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Kiss.
~ heard the oldest Of all burglar
stories when l was out on the Pacific
coast" said New Yorker who had just
returned from there. 1T was told to
me as having happened TO household
in the suburb Of San Francisco Private
detectives were employed to hunt the
desperate but the fear OF publicity hid
the case from the authorities In tho
front ballroom on the second floor OF .
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
all probability. at some friends laundry
or over In San Francisco smoking opium,
as those servants are almost certa to
be alter n ghtiall But he does not
count ut any rate The young lady was
not asleep She was in very poor health,
and part Of her ailment was an inability
TO sleep except In cat maps She heard
. noise on the porch beneath her win
dow, and o minute later her window
WAS thrown open and q man stepped
lightly into the room. Without halt
ing to see II his action had reused
any one, he passed along the very mar
row passage between her bed and her
trunk-a way so narrow that it 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 be dropped one hand upon the
young woman's head, and then let 1t re-
main in that pos ton as he moved. and
it swept along her side over the bed
clothes. But when his hands reached
her feet he pinched one Of the toes,
gently and mischievously 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, dreadful y frightened and
wondering what to do, back came the
man. He stood in her room, closed and
locked the door, and then sat down up
on the bed.
"Now, said he, in q gentle voice, not
at all modulated to avoid being heard,
4 know that you are awake and / am
gong to sit here and talk with you.
Upon my honor as burglar of reputa-
ton and good instincts, / will not hurt
you. In only one way will transgress
the rules Of good breeding. am going
to kiss you. that Is all
1.-The young woman found her voice
and screamed.
"Oh,' said the burglar. 4 am sorry
you are frightened. have half mind
to go away and come again when you
are more accustomed to my presence.
But. no; can not do that. Ionly mean
to take one kiss
"At this point her screams were at
her loudest and the noise she made was
such as to waken any but dead house
hold. one would have thought
"I really wish you would not do
that said the burglar. 1t will not de-
ter me- What do / care? / can only
die at the outside, and am not in the
least afraid to die. have seen you
again and again on the streets, and /
have made up my mind to risk any
thing in order to kiss you-to kiss you
when you are awake, and know l am
not stealing the favor, for would not
risk day in Jail to kiss woman asleep
Well, If you won't stop screaming ! can
not see any use in delaying
"Here he put an arm under tho girls
shoulders, and, gently raising her body,
he bent his own and kissed her on her
lips as lightly and respectfully as II she
had been his maiden aunt With that
he lowered her, still scream ng, 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 delirious,
and it was month before she was even
mentally herself aga n. Tho bravo was
never captured st Louis Star Say
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