The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-09

Here he is, Bill; we've got him;
d him for givln' us so much
trouble. We'll nix him now"
thought about as the burglar did.
but as / tried 70 get up l found Twas
in boat drawn half way up on the
sand
1 almost shouted with 10y when l
made this discovery. 1t was their
boat and once in il ana on 1.-THE water
! i was safe. BY this time could hear
their footsteps along the shore, which
was quite rocky and rough here, ex-
cept the little bit OF beach where the
boat lay, and they could not make
such headway as did as they did not
know the way through the rocks.
But they were coming fast enough
and cursing at every step and with
the energy OF despair, l caught the
boat in my arms and with wild
strain tried to shove il into the
water. But it would scarcely bulge.
Again and again tugged; the blood
almost bursting through my ears by
the eXertion and the skin tearing
! from hands and bare arms.
! So near l thought TO safety and still
the danger increasing every second,
then as / heard an oath more wicked
than the Others, as one OF the burg
! lars fell over stone, / felt the boat
move, and little wave rolled in and
lifted il, so that with one more push
it slid off into deep water. / Jumped
in, caught the oars, and rs the burg
lars dashed down through the dark
ness TO where they heard the noise,
the boat shot out into the water and
! i was safe.
They might have shot nfe from the
shore, but they had either left their
! revolverS in the house or had none,
the revolver being too noisy weapon
for burglars as rule.
Whatever the cause, they did not
| fire, and / did not wait for il, at
least that close A hundred feet out,
l began TO be myself once more and |
stopped rowing.
'Why don't you come on?" /
shouted back, halt Historically.
Hold on" they yelled, and / could
hear them running up and down the
shore in the darkness.
"Oh, you're all right" laughed
shrilly. I'll come back and take you
off in the course of a few hours" and
! then fearful that they might get
their guns, l rowed away as fast as l
could for the mainland.
/ think ] made that three miles in
! half the record. and when i found
! the first policeman, he was for run
ming me in as lunatic or sleep
walker, but he knew me, and as 1
told my story, fore OF ten men
! boarded tug and we returned 10 the
Island. BY this time the first gray
streaks Of dawn were showing in the
! summer sky, and as we cautiously
ran up to my wharf, it was almost
light enough to see the house.
We saw no burglars however, nor
any signs Of them, though l knew /
had them penned up on the island
and escape was impossible. We
waited until daylight, and then, de-
ployed as skirmishers, the policemen
began 10 move across the island, eX-
pecting any moment TO flush burg
lar or get shot from ambush.
"As we came up TO the house one
OF the burglars appeared in the door
way and was covered on the instant
by dozen guns.
Come in, gentlemen, come right
in, he said cheerily. We were ex-
pecting you and we've got nice
breakfast ready"
THE mans c0Olness almost gave
me the Mysteries, for l know by the
sound Of his voice that he was the
fellow who wanted to fix me.
"But he was uttering the truth
they did have a nice breakfast for us
(out OF my larder), aud not that only,
but they had found that Henry was
not dead, and they had washed him
and done what they could in caring
for him, and had done it so well that
he is alive to-day with only an ugly
scare on his neck as memento.
There were four in the lot and
we soon had them handcuffed, and
then we sat down to breakfast and
enjoyed it, though l must confess
that by this time the condition | was
in physically was not pleasant
You're a queer gang said the
! Lieutenant Of police tO the leader,
who had invited us TO breakfast.
What did you do this for?'
1.-The breakfast, you mean?'
And all the rest of it, said the
officer.
Well capn, he replied, it's like
this: We wuz here fer de swag, kill
CT no. and we thought we had killed
: the fuSt one. and. OF course, the other
one had 10 90, TO stop talk. Then
when he got away and had us penned
up like rats we came to the conclu-
sion that we had better git out the
best way we could. The one we
thought was dead only needed re-
pairs, so We repaired him, and we
knowed you'd be here bimeby 10 look
fer us. and probably comm out 50
early in the morning you might be
hungry. So, Begin the gents par
don fer trespassin', we turned in and
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