The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-06-22

yuioes Mis- wilson recognized In one Of
them her sunt's gardener. The girl, brave
| % ever, came 20 his assistance. -
Their combined cries for help brought
one Of their neighbors to the scene Of the
struggle. The marauder was soon over
come, and when the serving maid appeared
with lamp Nora and the gardener recog-
nized In him the tramp who had aocosted
them In the afternoon In front of The bank.
"Take him to prison, I" commanded Miss
Wilson. my aunt and ] will lodge COM
plant against him In the morning"
While the two men carried of their pris-
oner Nora hurried TO her aunt's room. BY
this time the effect Of the chloroform had
disappeared, and Miss Magruder was &C.
quainted with the events Of the night.
tents, was moved a considerable distance
from where 1t had originally been placed,
and the spinster admitted that the cashier
was right after all in admonishing her as
he did. To relieve herself from further
responsibility she sent for her niece's be-
trothed carly In the morning.
In the meantime the prisoner had pre-
liminary hearing before the Judge Miss
Wilson deposed that she had met the man
in the afternoon; that he had seen the
satchel which they carried from the bank
slowed away under the buggy seat. She
then narrated her struggle with the in
truder and his final arrest by neigbbor
and her aunt's gardener. The latter cor
roborated her statement. Tho prisoner
firmly declared his innocence, even In the
face Of these grave charges. He denied
having struggled with the young lady in
her aunt's room, and said that he had
sought shelter In Miss Magruder's wood
shed for the night. When he heard Miss
Wilson'S cries for help, he thought fire
had broken out, and rushed from the shed
to aid In suppressing It,
Without word Nora Wilson pointed to
tho prisoners right hand, which was
bandaged with dirty rag. The judge
understood her meaning and asked the
tramp how he had injured his hand.
His answer was that he had cut himself
with an ak, as he cleared tho place in the
dark to find comfortable spot to lie
down in.
His statement was not credited, and he
was remanded to Jail.
An hour later Nora and her betrothed
were on the way to the bank. They had
with them the satchel of gold, ready to
again intrust 1t to the custody Of the bank
cashier.
GOOD morning, Mr.. Holt" said the
girl. Here is the money! You were
right; some one did try to rob us last
night"
"Ah, hal" cried Mr. Holt, coming close
to the cashiers window to receive the
money.
A penetrating odor Of chloroform was
noticeable. 1t came from the clothes of
tho cashier.
"Oh, Jamesl" cried the girl, still pale
and nervous from her terrible experience
of the night.
Miss Wilson's fiance Permit me to lead
her to yonder couch. She is not well. A
little rest will soon restore her,"
Holt was not inclined to grant the re-
quest to admit the two young people to
the back room without opposition.
"It's against the rules of the bank" he
remarked stnbbornly.
James Cliff paid no attention to him,
but pushed the door open and led the
young girl to the leather sofa in the back
room, Nora was far from fainting. Her
mind had never worked more quickly and
to the point. A sudden suspicion that not
the tramp, but another, had tried to rob
than Of her fortune flashed through her
brain. There was the odOr of the chloro-
form, and, besides, the cashier held his
hand concealed in his coat pocket.
"What is the matter with your hand,
Mr.. Holt" she asked.
"My handY l sprained it last night
while trying to move heavy piece of fur
niture. have been bathing it with ar
MICA and must keep it bandaged.'
won't you let me see itf"
Tho cashier hesitated, but when he
pulled the hand from the pocket at last,
the bandage showed other stains than
those of arnica.
With bound the girl stood before him.
This is blood, James," she cried. "a
sprain could not have caused them-the
smell of the ohloroform, his voice, his look,
and the hairs wrapped around the button
of his coatl Do you not recognize them?"
Her lover snatched the oyercoat thrown
over the back of the chair in the room in
which they were.
"They are yours, Nora" said James
Cliff, carefully loosening them from the
button that held them confined. would
them anywherel"
This Is the man who broke into our
house, with whom struggled and in the
struggle he cut his hand" said Nora firm
ly and menaCingly.
II wish 1 had killed you'll" muttered |
Holt, now blind with rage over the girls |
discovery.
They called tho clerk and sent for the
sheriff, but James Cliff was compelled to
keep the desperate bank cashier at bay at
the point Of revolver
At his home were found bottle half
filled with chloroform, a blood stained
,uff, bowie knife, bunch of skeleton
Keys and other paraphernalia belonging to
Tho light fingered gentry.
Years aftcrward, when Nora Wilson and
James Cliff celebrated their marriage an
liyersary, they learned the cause for the
rhine of the bank cashier. He had been
n love with the pretty country lassie, and
IS James Cliff was then an impecunious
attorney he thought If he robbed her of
Ter fortune the young man would not
marry her
but you know better, dear wife,"
James into tho pretty matron's
ar. She nodded her head in silence and
wound her arms around his neck.
The $4,000 in gold was deposited in
arger bank, and the interest has been
fling up from year to year, making a nest
gg for the three little children of the
lifts. Louis Republic.
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Pat and the Tareet