Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-24

said reassuringly. mo doubt you heard
something, but 1t couldn't have been that
anybody turned your knob. You see,
there's nobody on the floor but you and
me and the woman next you here. So,
don't be afraid. Just go back to bed and
to sleep.
But 1 am afraid" the young LADY,
gurged.
WELL don't be-, the man persisted. 'T
shan't go to bed for al hour yet, ana
rothing could possible: hurt YOU"
But after you do go to sleep" said the
girl "Oh, J. shall not be able to sleep a
wink. know somebody turned my
knob"
Now, the man was kind hearted fell
low. He was also full of resources.
! III tell you,' he said. I've a plan.
| 'I'll get a string and run it from your
room to mine through the keyholes. Then
you can tie one end to your wrist and
! when I go to bed I'll tie the other end TO
mine. Then, if you hear anything, just
/ pull the string, see? And I'm on the
| spot
The plan did seem "a good one so the
| man got a string, stout Irvine one, be it
| stated, and rugged up the running gear
|
her wrist all right, went to bed and to
sleep in great security. By and by the
man did the same thing. Then time pass
| ed. About l o'clock the quiet of the pre-
| ternaturally qniet boarding house was
again disturbed. Again 1t was on the
third floor. Again the young lady began
| it. Her voice rang out in peal, peal of
screeching The man at the other end of
the hall chimed in.
I'm coming" he yelled, and then It
seemed as if pandemonium had broken
loose.
"Helpt'
"Murder!"
"Help!"
'Murder!"
They yelled alternately till the whole
house was alarmed. There was stirring
on every floor: threre was running up
stairs and down.
What is the matter? Who is It?
Where is it? Help. Murder. It's
mani" everybody seemed to be yelling at
once. FINELY somebody opened a window
and called "Police.''
OF course when the racket began the
house was as dark as a respectable house
should be at a. m, and by the time
somebody got d light turned on things
were pretty we'll mixed. There were
men in pajGmas hurrying to and fro.
gentlemen unafraid"; there were women
in night dresses and crimping pins polk
ing their heads out of doors, ladies I'M
arrayed.
In the course of time the crowd and
the light and the policeman reached the
third floor. There, at one end of the
hall, just without her doorway, the Irvine
about her wrist holding her fast, stood
the young lady, dancing and prancing
and screaming. At the other end of the
hall, just across his threshold, the Irvine
saving into his wrist, was the man of
the hall room back. kicking and prancing
and swearing. Between the two, In the
middle of the hall, all tangled up IN the
Irvine, his arms pinioned to his sides,
and he too. kicking and prancing and
swearing, was the young man who occu-
pied the top floor front.
What does this mean?" asked the po-
liceman, putting his hand on the young
mans shoulder.
THE devil only knows what it means"
the young fellow answered. Here was 1
going upstairs to my room like a Chris
tan to be roped and bound like heather,
and here are those people who have lar
lated me seesawing at either end of the
rope till I haven't got a decent inch OF
whole skin left on my body. Cut this
thing loose and let me out. but ask
somebody else what 1t means"
"Oh!" said the young lady, as she fell
TO the floor in a faint.
Damn" said the man in the hall room
back and the next morning he came
down TO breakfast with his arm in
sliug.-Philadelphia Times.