The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-17

happened to fish out an old envelope
addressed to Jim, which he remembered
| Jotting down some memoranda on be-
fore he went to bed the night before.
Jim had little conversation with
1.-THE conductor and brakeman, and a wire
was dispatched from the next, station
and then he confronted his man. I'll
thank YOU FOR my svercQat, waistpoat
and jacket said he looking him
straight in the eye, and speaking as de-
| liberately as if he were forming a
/ prayer The burglar WINGED and the
muscles around his mouth began tc
wobble. Tn Jim Brown, of J. Smith
street, and your raiment you lifted from
my house early this morning. Off with
itl'
"And the burglar off with the clothes
in a great fright, and Jim put them on
then and there, to the great surprise
Of the other passengers. So that's tht
story of why Jim Brown didn't fac
Philadelphia in his shirt-sleeVes."
but he wore his slippers?" asked thu
Doctors wife.
"Only for a block out. of the station
''And the burglar escaped?" queriet
J the httlest one.
1.-THE wire they sent was to police
headquarters, and by the time they
reached Philadelphia, a police officer
was waiting for them. Mr. Man sol
two years"
"And that stopped the operations OF
the gang, suppose said the old army
officer.
mo, indeed. The gang went on just
the same as before, because Jim hadn't
caught the leader. The following year
some pictures were stolen, a tall clock
was unscrewed from the wall and car
ried off. and they went into a spare
room and took to pieces a handsome
brass bedstead and walked away with
it. Some thine the year after that,
Mary had a sealski11 jacket. 1t was a
beauty. She had worn ID one day,
and remembered after the family had
gone to bed, that she had left it down
stairs, so she ran down and brought
it up. shouldn't Alike to lose chat,
she said to herself. That night the
Shouse was cleaned out"
The doctor, who had gothic f1re-welt
under CONTROL had been waiting for
some time to speak, and now his chance
was come.
when was boarding in Somerville,
some years ago" said he, "the house
was entered Among the funny things
Stolen was 70 yards Of new carpeting.
A bureau that stood under the stair
case in the front hall was practically
disembowelled Every drawer was TIA
ken out and it's contents-shoes, table
linen, wearing apparel, kniek- knacks
and all-scattered around promiscuous-
ly all over the hall. The landlord and
his wife slept in a room leading off
the dining room, with the door between
OF
morning, the door was closed, and that
was the first they knew about the house
having been broken into. Mr.. Rus
sell. the landlord, carried his luncheon
With him and 1t was put up in his over
coat pocket the night befope. The coat
was stolen, luncheon and all, but we
found the food spread along the top
of the fence. All the solid silver was
gone, but some plated stuff had been
thrown out into the garden. A fort
night afterWard a policemen foundsthe
carpet and dark lantern slowed away
under pile of timber in lumber yard
in CharlestQWn."
u remember the night of the burglary
perfectly" interjected the doctors wife
we had company till after midnight,
When we had locked the front door, 1
went around to all the parlor windows
and saw that they We're fastened. AS
l turned away from the last window,
the feeling came over me irresistably
that l was being watched by pair of
hostile eyes in the shrubbery outside.
Cold chills ran up and down my spine,
my head seemed to lift bodily from my
scalp; if you had promised me a mil
lion dollars, l could not have looked
around. l could feel those eyeballs
glued to my back, blistering me with
their hot. gaze, and / was simply panic
stricken, but | managed to retreat from
the room in good order and close the
door, and then l flew upstairs, almost
faintjng when ! got there We both
considered it Imagination however, and
went to bed, but / suppose that those
glisJenng eyeballs were real, and that
as I'went the rounds Of the windows,
the burglars were watching me. They
got in by one of these very windows"
"But there's one thing" added grand
pa as everybody got up to go, land
that is, don't fight burglars. Let them
take everything they want, but don't
try to contest it with them. If you hear
or see any, pretend you don't. You can
recover your possessions next week in
the pawnshops, whore they are sure to
bring UP, but you can't recover your
life"
The doctor sat by the fire after they
were gone, thinking over the burglar
ious stories and tinkering at the fire in
his cheerful fashion; then he went to