Nevada County picayune., 1891-07-02

1 out Htaru Jump dlu Scdlnpcr ana then the dogs next door began to bark and the moon came out a bit and three dark figures went tearing up the street with the dogs and two or three men from the ncighbors' after them. You see, after all. is very tame story. The burglars were never caught Two of them had tried tine house next door and one wa, rcconnoitcring me. But I've wondered sometimes if l had stopped to think should I have gone and opened the door?'
 "Now," said the Cooper Union girl, I'm going to tell you my burglar story"
 You said both the others; have you seen d burglar?n They drew close together and the Barnard girl pulled d shawl about her shoulders.
 An up and down section of one not very wide. though considerably greater in extent than fingers.
 The typewriter left her chair and curled up among the pillows of the big old lounge. The clock struck the half hour
 "It was Decoration day. was board ing at my brothers and every body had gone out, Even the kitchen girl had leave to see the parade. got home first of the family at about noon. When l entered the front hall l saw my brothers little detective camera in the middle of the floor thought it rather funny. and if gave me d second surprise when saw great black prints as of d huge hand on thew all beside the stairs. 1 sat down on the hall settee and picked mp the camera; somebody had tried to pry fl open. The burglar had dropped it in disgust when it failed to yield easily; clearly he was gone. Still tiptocd aboHt with a certain de gree of eau ution. The parIor and din ing-room were empty and in good order. 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 off the bed, all the draw CTS had been pulled out of the bureau, and all my small laces and ribbons lay with the clean linen in heap, tramp led by dirty boot heels. l could have cried at the havoc, but just then heard a sound.
 The Barnard girl shivercd Then she rose and threw herself down on the couch pillows beside the typewriter. The typewriter begged share of the shawl They huddlcd in a bunch under the one wrapping They oaid;' Go on,'
 1t seemed to come from the next room, which belonged to my sistcr-in- law. There was d door between and on her side there was a porticrc. Was the burglar still in the house? l lis tened; dared not take step in any direction. l heard somebody whistle, Could my brother have come home? Was he looking over the ruins? The tune was Annie Rooncy.' l had heard my brother whistle it that morning. Could it be he?
 II crcpt to the door and opened it softly, pccping around the porticrc. l saw an up and down section of a man. He was at 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
 Fl crcpt back to my room and into my closet curlcd up behind the door. IL was separated from the other closet only by thin partition, and was afraid he would hear my heart beat, but dared not risk going downstairs. The man kept whietling, and-my story is a tame one. too - by and by he went A. in ha house, and he didn't apparently seek the dinin@-room for silver, he got little or nothing
 The Barnard girl sat bolt upright. Didn't you hear the stairs crcak?' she asked. "l suppose I might as well wind up this scancc with a burglar of my own"
 'You have seen one, too" exclaimed the chorus
 "Ycs, whole one fingers feet, mp and down, and across sections. But didn't the stairs crcall?'
 "Onc each is enough for three young women"
 "Oh, you're nervous, that's all; there's no one there.
 "IIc got into the house one night and l woke mp and he was rummaging my bureau. was iri.'htcncd out of my senses, but shut my eyes and made believe I was sound asleep. had read somewhere that was the proper thing to do."
 "Why don't you tell the rcst?'
 "Thcre isn't any rest he was like the others; he mot out of the window and went down the piazza trellis.'
 And you didn't give the alarm"
 "I? oh, l faintcd but the hall floor crealls, surcly.'
 "GirlS'
 All three sprang up with nervous start, and the clock struck the half hour.
 Girls, it is half-past two and you arc keeping everybody on this floor awake" IL was the woman who does children's stories and who has the small hall bedroom.
 The Cooper Union girl rose to return to her own chamber "But, after all, D she said, "wc've not settled what to do if we SAoU1d see each her second bur glar before morning. N. N Recorder.
 No Chance for Mistakes,
 He had been out in one of the west ern territories which one if is not nee cssary her" to state, aad was in a safe place two tb1u,and miles east. when q man asked hin about a certain hemp rope social which bad occurred while he was there.
 "Thc boys had dickens of hard time getting the chap they were after, didn't thcy?" the man inquired
 ''Nes. they were half the night