The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-10-05
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After | had gathered IN what I
could find il tina dining room. "saie, the
retired burglar, telling of his experience
In a house il western Massachusetts,,
Il started for the parlcr. This parior
was just iii front OF the dining room,
and there were heavy curtains between.
pushed these curtains one side and
went i'll carefully, so rs not to mar the
furniture by kicking it, feeling along
for the table which / knew must be in
the center. | came to it presently ard
found it very solid feeling, with a sort
Of molding or carving along the edge.
! had struck i5 on "a side apparently.
and SO / felt toward the dining room
until came TO corner of the table,
and then felt along the end for the
next corner to get the Dimensions Of it.
| struck the other corner SO quick that it
made my hair raise right up. knew
there was only one thing they build of
such shape, and that a c9hin.
Il turned my light on it, aud it was
a big oak caslZet, one of the kind they
make ROW days, square and solid, and
it had three silver handles on each side.
| didn't dare look in, but | felt SIS
though l ought TO have them handles.
The head was toward the front Of the
house and tie foc5 toward the dining
room. | set my lamp down and got my
screwdriver ont of my bag and began
on one of the handles nearest the foot.
l suppose l must have felt little easier
after I'd got that one oil and into the
bag know went around the end and
then no the other sida pretty prompt,
getting EN- or sino5tE Is could be, and
around tie head and started down the
other side where I'd begun. ! got the
handle off by the head Oh that side, and
then | went 80 the last handle, tine ono
in the middle. In turning the last
screw out of the handle l dropped my
sCrewdIiver.
1t seemed to me rs though it made
more uoise than al iron telegraph pole
dropping inside OF an empty iron oil
tank. just lay down and waited. !
didn' Care run. I expected q million
people would come pouring down tho
stairs and from all around, and / jast
waited. lying On the floor, but there
didn't anybody come. You know, the
fact was that dropping that screwdriyer
hadn't made noise enoagh to wake M a
mouse, but il seemed to me Ike tie
greatest racket YOU ever heard, and il
scared re most TO death. But when no.
body came picked up the screwdriyer
ard set in the Notch Of thescrew again,
and I'd just got that handle of when
heard somebody SAY:
Don't you think your crowdin rs
here littlc, Try friend, carrying away
them hanGles:' IL was the dead man
sitting up and locking down at me l
suppose he'd been i'll an epileptic trance
or something of that sort. and dropping
that scrcwdriver had made Just shock
enough to start him into life again.
Il was so scared dropped the han
die, but I grabbed my bag-I suppose
instinct made me do that-and started
out through the dining rooln again and
down cellar and ont r the window
came III by. l didn'twait to see if any
body was coming this time
4 got $ll1 for those FIVE handles Il
seemed a pity to lose thu other one, but
it was always great satisfaction to me
to think that I'd woke the man up. -
New York Sun.
ThoughtlessIy FRANK.
Il suppose you will be out again to-
night. remarked SportiDgton's wife
severely.
i will" be replied with feeling,
unless l manage to hold better hands
than | got last night Washington
Star.
Calvin's face was too strongly mark
ed to be called handsome. Impressive
and stern aIs the words that best de-
scribe his features