Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-27

more charitable companion. They pushed
their own window up once more, and
watched from behind the curtains.
For a long time all was silent within the
house. The light still stood mot;onless, IS
though Mrs Westmacott remained rigidly
in the ore position, while from time to
time a shadow passed in front OF it to show
that her midnight visitor was pacing up and
down IN front cf her. Once they saw his
outline clearly, with his hands outstretched
ss ifin appeal or entreaty. Then suddenly
there was dull sound, a cry, the noise of
q fall. the taper was e1tingulshed and a
dark figure fled in the moonlight, rushed
across the garden and vanished amid the
shrubs AT the farther side.
Then only did the two old ladies under
stand that they had looked on while a
tragedy had been enacted. "Helpi' they
cried. and "Help,'' in their high. thin
voices, timidly at first, hut gathering vol
ume as they went on until the Wilderness
rang with their shrieks. Lights shone in
al the windows opposite, chains ratified,
bars were unShot, doors opened and ont
rushed friends to the rescue. Harold, with
q stick; the Admiral, with his sword, his
gray head and bare feet protruding from
either end OF long brown ulster! finally,
Doctor Walker, with poker, all ran TO the
help of the Westmacotts. Their door ad
tumultuously into the front room.
Charles Westmacott, white to his lips,
was Eneel;ng on the floor, supporting his
auut'S head on his knee. She Law out
stretched, dressed in her ordinary clothes,
the eztinguished taper still grasped in her
hand, no mark or wound upon her-pale,
placid and seGseless.
THANK God you are come, Doctor" said
Charles, looking up. "Do tell me how she
is and what 1 should do"
Doctor Walker kneeled beside her end
passed his left hand over her head, while he
grzsred her pulse with his right
"She las had terrible blow" said he
at must have been with some blunt
weapon. Here is The place, behind the ear.
But she is woman Of extraordinary physi-
cal powers. Her pulse is full and slow
There is no stertor. 1t is nv belief that she
is merely stunned, and that she is in no
danger at all.''
Thank God for thatr'
'We must get her to bed. We shall carry
her upstairs, and then 1 shall send my girls
IN to her. But VINO has done this?''
"SoIne robber," said Charles "You see
that the window is open. She must have
heard him and dome down, for she was al
waTs perfectly fearless. 1 wish to goodness
she had called me-"
"I5ut she was dressed"
Sometimes she sits up very late
81 did sit up very late,'' said voice.
She had opened her eyes, and was blinking
at them in the lamplight. ga villain came
In through the window and struck me with
a life-preserver You can tell the police so
when they come. Also that it was a little
fat man. Now, Charles, give me your arm
and shall 90 upstairs. -
But her spirit was greater than her
strength, for, as she staggered to her feet,
her head swan round, and she would have
fallen again had her nephew not thrown his
arms round her. They carried her upstairs
among them and laid her upon the bed,
where the doctor watched beside her. while
Charles went off to the police station, and
the Denvers mounted guard over the fright
ened maids