Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-03-05

Aud so on and so on the total coming
TO the sum of f75 lis. 4d The letter
was dated from Arabella Villa. and it
was signed Thomas Shiftless.
/ few TO Arabella Villa in a cab.
There was little crowd outside the
door; three plain-clothes officers were
interviewing the general servant in
the kitchen; and the chief informed
me that an entry had been effected by
the scullery window. and that from
information received" he had no
doubt whatever that that eminent
cracksman. Mr.. Robert Smoucher, had
done the trick.
He looked tremendously intelligent;
when told him who | was and when
gave him half GROWN, he looked
more intelligent than ever. Tom was
mlnistering to his unhappy wife.
''The poor thing had had fiji Of
Mysteries every quarter of an hour
ever since. he explained TO me
oh. Mr.. Pushard!' cried the poor
/ Guffersr TO Inc, "oh"'
/ soothed her Little By little /
learned all she had TO tell. To put it
/ shortly. her story ran as follows: Her
4 husband was al his club: she was sud
/ i My awakened by a noise in the
room she saw a gigantic figure stand
| ing at the foot OF the bed; it wore a
psa-jacget red comforter and fur
/ cap; tho face was concealed by a
1 hideous mask. The mans eyes
| sparkled like burning Goals, she said;
In his hand was a pistol. which might
have gone of at any moment
\ tainted away at once. When / came
to myself Tom was holding the smell
ing -bottle 20 my nose; and oh, Mr.
Pushard. ! shall never believe in yoI
and the Anti Burglar Security Asso-
citation any more. " Then she went
of into its OF hysterical laughter and
went back TO the Office.
They never caught Mr.. Smoucher.
the eminent brakeman.
II vas about year after the burg
larry AZ Arabella Villa that Tom Shift
less came into his uncle's money.
Within a week he hal another stroke
OF luck; he discovered the whole Of
the property which had been stolen
from Arabella Villa; he came TO the
lice one morning and informed me o.
the fact; in his hand was check for
Els lis. ld.
Mr.. Pushard, =" he said. (the fellow.
now that he had come into his money.
aelua Is had tho impertinence TO b,
distant 10 me. ! was his dear Dolly
once. Bah! how hate iugratitude,l
las; night while digg ng in the gar
den beneath gooseberry tree which
planted the very day after our burg
lar" here his eyes twinkled and h,
smiled ina fatuous mRnneF-'I discoy
cred the whole OF our plate, and tn,
fur cap and pasteboard mask OF tn,
villain who robbed US Under tn,
circumstances feel that can not d,
less than return tho sum paid me b.
tho Anti Burglar Security association
Now. I'll trouble you for receipt
Your conduct does you immens
, credit my dear Shiftless cried
Let me shake you by the hand
added in my enthusiasm.
But the upstart thrust his hand
into his pockets and he would no
even sit down.
One can not afford 70 quarrel with
man who has Just come into money.
Let me offer you a glass Of sherry
Tom. / Hospitality cried. '.just {
. show there is no ill-feeling" Then
handed him the receipt
Il don't want your sherry NJ
Pushard he replied.
Then light burst in upon me i;
once. saw it all. knew now VII
! had burgled Arabella Villa 1t WI
Tom. st. James Gazette.