Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-07-30
TEE RETIRED BURGLAR.
sIc gelI3 of so3ne Very Unpleasant EXpe
 rlen6es With Mirrors.

rienGes With Mirrors.
 eI beve had, sad the retired bur eia1l some very unpleasant exFeIienees with mirrors. l think 1 have told yeu how F eaee fired at my reflection in I mirror nlistaking t for another man 2 mi8ts5Ee that l thought l should never make again. But within two years after that ] st5Hels at man ii q minor, and smashed the glass aud smashedmy hand and made myself uncomfortable gencr- ally. I5 may seem strange to you that 8 man could make such mistakes, but in dila light, and whore everything 1s strange 10 him. and hes all sort of keyed up himself, ] don know & t is after all stll, aftel hat last experience l did think it would Le some time hefofe had any more treaile with mirrors But within year l had an experience that gEsss | great deal worse than ai5her ef them.
 When came cut of . room il q house ] was in one night, en the second fiaor. looking down tile hall-this was pretty Hear the front where 1 was-I sHW tie 1gaa of myself in q mirror at tae other end It Was plain enough. even in fhat light, but it startled nle . 1it6e at fTsts and l threw up my gun at it. 9f eourse the figure $ hand went up and down. 5Qst the same as mine did, and t naae inc Kind Of laugh to think af t, and l could imagine the shadow laughing, tee, at man who was afraid Bf his own shadow.
 1keH ] went into the next rOoa5 and when E ea4}5e cut of that into the haR again Glgz eyes sought the mirror again. t wasn very pleasant to sec yourself in the dark in that way, but it would have been 2 mighty sight less pleasant net to. But theH was all right and l gteod ana 10oked at it q minute and threw up my safn at it same as before. just ap aGd down, sort of unnecessary lest. bat tt made me feel just a little easier, and ID went the arm in tae mir Her with mine. bat this time, when lnine caaae down, the ann in the mirror Etaitl,up.
 Now, don't raise your hands, the nan saitI covering me with a gun in his uplaised hand, voice kind of drawl- ing, htl5 meaning business, yoH know 1ea know when 2 man means business, and this man did mean it, aud l kept my hands down
 o., BlllP ho says, not moving a muscle aud not shouting itout. bat just kind eff drawing 1t out like the other
 Then man appeared beyond the man that was holding me up, coming toward Ii5n and me. He walked right through the mirror, past the other man, and kept coming. 1t WAS all plain enough then. h fact. I'd guessed at it before, as may be you have. The mirror wstsa t a mirror Ut all, but a doorway, aa opening midway of a long hall, and the frame was the frame of the door way There were rooms beyond, just tie same as those on the side where WAS, and u was the doors of those that l had seen in the mirror and not the re- aeetian of those oil my side. And it Was out of one of those doors that Bill came. The man with the gun had been ready for ne the first time l locked, bat it must have been that Bill wasn t alen But Bill was ready HOW, and he came ca past Che ethae man, careful to keep cut of his range, Of course, naI- ina for ne, and be came around behind nle aud took two CT tIfree turns of a rope afeald ny hedy Msd arms. Then 5he man with the gun came pp, and he- tween thcla they ticd me IT. geed and stfong. AEd that WIS matter of some four years. '-New York Sun.