The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-07
The Retireh nurrInr.

THE thing that fixed my eye in this
ROOM said the retired burglar. according
TO the New York Sun, was a travelling
bag not an empty travelling bag, just
lying around but full bag. evidently just
packed and an ready to pick up and carry
off; and when 1 swept my lamp along a
little further on the floor it struck a chair
with mans hat on il, and sweeping the
lamp round just lttle bit further still
struck bed with man stretched out on
it. completely dressed. He was all ready to
go. and just waiting for the hour. and
he'd laid down there just to lie down and
rest himself or 10 take a nap till his time
came TO start
How he expected to know about that
was easy enough to see from an alarm
clock that stood on the sill Of a window
near the head of the bed. / picked that
up and looked at it and saw that il was
set to go off at 2 o'clock. II was then
about quarter past 2. Whether the alarm
had gone off and failed 10 wake him up,
or whether ii was Likely to ring at any
minute while 1 was standing. there, or
whether il was busted up and wouldn't
90 Off at all was something that of course
couldn't tell, but that interested me very
much. L stood there thinking about it
ana at the same sort of swinging my lamp
round to finish surveying the room when
the light fell on a yellow paper that was
lying with one end of it kind o bent up
on ton of the bureau and when I came
10 look at this I saw il was a telegraph
blank. 1t was message that this man
mad received and put down there on the
bureau. 1t said something like this:
II you want 10 see Mary alive you
want 10 come by the first train
wei, now, 1 imagine he must have got
% al,
night, and he'd packed his bag and got all
ready to start and had an hour or two 10
spare, and so he'd set his alarm clock
and laid down TO wait You know 1 don't
think he should have laid down and taken
any chance on that at all but of course
Ia got 10 wake him up; the only question
was how
4 might have kicked over a chair or
Two III his room, or gone outside and
thrown rock against the window blinds;
put TINS might not have woke him up. and
there wasn't any time to spare You see.
knew the train. 1 had been in this town
on business before, and / had taken il
myself. 1t left at 2:4S, and il was now
about 2:0 and something more than a
mile to the station. So I Just leans over
and shakes him on the shoulder. and when
ne turns his head / blinds him for a min
ute with the light. and I says to him:
maui II dbOul Nlule Tor YOU to
be getting up
what time 1t tsp he says, covering
MS eyes from the light but getting IN
at the same time. and tells him that lis
about 2;a, and up he jumps very sudden.
w nat he'd do about me, or try to do
OF course | couldn't tell, but I'd made IN
my mind what I was going to do when
was shaking his shoulder, and when he
iinds his feet and begins to get up saws
to him:
self = al" my
And I walked down to the station with
MN, neither of us saying boo
lie got into the smoking car when the
ualh came along, and got in somewhere
else. didn't see him get off or where
ne was going; 1 didn't look for him: but I
knew well enough that there wasn't anv
danger OF his going 10 sleep again.
\ ears after that, walking down BROAD
way, here in this town, I saw that man
coming l would have sort of casually
walked by myself and not seen him: bnt
ne saw me, and stopped and shook hands
Old man. he says, she's living vet
thank God! but never'd have forgive nv
self II ia have missed that train
And then he shakes hands with ma
again and passes on; he never offered 10
stake me, nor nothing; and 1 liked that
best of ALL" ''''''