The National tribune., 1901-06-20

| awoke with a startled scream just as he
was arrested by an officer on charge Of
robbery.
why, Henry, what is the matter with
you? You have been restless and fidgety
all night said his wife.
"A trifie nervous and tired, Mary,
that is all,I he answered. Poor dear
woman; how happy | could make her if
L only dared. But, no; we must wait;
we must be poor little longer, and let
this wear out"
After breakfast he took stroll around
the house to the corner where the money
was concealed. He shuddered at the
thought of the place being so public, but
dared not move it by daylight; he would
! wait until night.
While he was out the newsboy brought
the paper, and on his return he found his
wife reading it. He took it to look it
| over before going to his place of business.
After running his eye over it's columns for
several moments, it alighted on the head
lines:
"a ROBBERY AND A RUNAWAY"
Following this was a brief account of
two bold robbers attacking one of the
wagons of the Express Company, on
which was the driver and an agent in
charge of the valuable packages. In the
| struggle the horses attached to the wag-
on took fright and ran away, throwing
out robbers, messenger and driver and
scattering packages for several blocks,
One money package was missing, but the
company refused to give the amount. The
messenger said that the bag in which the
| money packages were carried to the car
was cut open by one Of the robbers while
he held on to the straps.
One of the robbers had been captured,
but no package was in his possession. Inc
other, having escaped, it was the opinion
of the police that he had the missing
package. The newspaper concluded with
| the stereOtyped declaration that the police
were hot on his trail and would no doubt
be able to land him in few hours.
| Henry felt Il little easier. Suspicion
would not rest on him while the police
| were following the escaped rObber He
| still had a dread that if the money should
| be found about his premises he might be
| accused of being an accessory after the
, fact.
Il did not steal it," he mentally de-
clared. Il found tit was thrown right
at me. | never stole it. What is $4,000
| for a great corporation to lose?-noth-
! ing"
| He hurried home early, and was still
| further relieved to know that the pack
age had not been disturbed The evening
papers contained a full account of how
| the detectives were conducting the case.
! Silly officers, too fond of seeing their
names in print, were talking, and sensa-
| tiOnal newspapers anxious to be first with
any news gave every detail, guess and
suspicion. The captured robber had made
a confession, and the escaped robber was
| thought to be under surveillance in an
other city, and there were hosts of theo-
ries about the affair.
| None of them suspects me-" chuckled
Henry, as he read the paper, and when
| his wife asked why he was smiling and
talking to himself, he answered:
"Oh, it was nothing, dear; only a little
frivolous thought that passed through my
mind" and he arose and kissed her, say
ing some day he would make her happy.
He could not help thinking that he ought
not to kiss his wife with lips polluted
with a lie, nor touch her with hands that
had been guilty of theft.
That night, while the household was
asleep, Henry Grimshawe arose and crept
out to the niche in the chimney, took the
package out, and carried it to the cellar
With pick and spade he removed one of
the square blocks of stone and dug hole
in the earth. Placing the package in q
tin box, which he had brought for that
purpose, he put the tin box in q box of
wood, which he placed in the hole he had
dug, covered all over with EARTH and laid
the square stone upon it.
After his task was accomplished he
gave another look about the basement to
assure himself that mis- acts had not been
observed; then with broom swept the
cellar floor clean of the dirt he had been
compelled to make in digging the hole.
His aIduous task accomplished, he went
to bed to dream Of plumbers, gas-ftters