Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-09-25
WAS TT A CRIME 2


ged for anything more than thieving till |
he met with a oleverer chap than him, and |
together they did more than one bad
nights work, know. Well, this other |
chap, he found out somehow that there
was something about a certain village
that made IL worth while for him TO hang
around there above bit.
"It's first GLASS job" says he to our
man here. "If we pull 1t of, it's idlene5s
and the fat Of the land for tho rest Of our
born days. Are you onp''
"I'm on" says our man, like the brute
no is, never SO much as asking what 1t is
he's on in.
The house was called Chudlcigh Abbey,
and 1t seems 1t was an old house, all over
ivy and creepers, and an old lady lived
there with young nephew and pretty
niece. or course you guess there must be
some sort OF lovemaking when young
man and his pretty cousin live under one
roof. So there was, so there was. And
their sort Of lovemaking was the marrying
sort. Tho question was popped, and the
day was named, and then my young sir
must needs get the family diamonds out
Of the bank to see how his sweetheart look
ed In them.
He thought she looked sweet In them,
you may be sure, and he gave them to her
to keep, just telling her not to let any one
know she'd got them till he'd got safo to
keep them in. So she takes them up to
her room, and she hides them. Now he
thought and she thought no one knew
about them diamonds, but don't need to
tell you, sir, that valuable stones don't
change their addresses without It's being
known somehow to more than one and
more than two, and among those that
knew were our man and his mate.
Well, they meant to have the diamonds,
| and they laid their plan, and there was
two things that made their plan so easy
| to work. First, the young lady slept In u
room Mt the fur end Of q long passage,
with no one near her.
1t was the Oldest part Of the house, and
| she liked 1t because 1t was $50 romantic. ="
| You know what young ladies be, siri
| Next, the young gentleman, what always
slept at home, was to sleep at the inn the
| night before the wedding. You know,
sir, it's a custom with gentlefolks. So the
pi Was that on the night before the we'd
die, when there was only the women In
the house, our men was to climb up the
ivy and creep into our young lady's room
and take the diamonds.
/ IL Jake 1ilU bO1uc biiuc W INV Wicie
she's hid theia," he says to the other chap.
$50 I'd better make the girl safe first"
Il WINS decided that our man was to &c
right away for week, SO that there might
not DO any suspicion, and when no came
back his mate would meet him at u Ger
tain place aud hour and tell him II any
change was wanted In the plan. II his
mate didn't meet him, no was to 60 to til,
house at once.
So he climbed up one night and filed
the window bars nearly through and got
all ready, and then ho went away
After week he came back.
It was q very dark night. He waited Q
quarter 1T an hour by tho old WALL bu
no one came So he took his knife In hi
teeth and climbed up the Ivy, going ver.
slow and quiet. Tho bars were just as h
had left them. He took one out yer!
gently and laid 1t down and got into tin
| ROOM
1t was very, very dark and smelled O
scent and camphor, like a chemists shop
He listened for the girls breathing Il
guide him to the bed, but no heard moth
Ing. Presently, feeling about, his hant
touched the bedpost. Then he wraps hi
red cotton handkerchief round his hand 4
put over her mouth, and he takes his knit
In the other hand and feels for her fac
and pulls the sheet of her neck. Sh
never moved, and 1t was done in min
ute Then he lays down his wet knife oil
the bed and strikes match quite at hi
ease to look for the diamonds.
He lights candle that stands by tn
bed head and then secs the bed and what
on 1t, and no gives yell that fetche
every soul in the house awake, and h
goes off then and there stark, ravinG
screaming mad. The sight Of what b
meant all along to dor Not It'll Con
scienceP Not bit Of It'll Sheer fright a
the sight Of what he'd dcne and hadn
meant to do.
The candle showed him the bed-all
mass Of white nowers-and what was lyin