Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-07-02

fOr the naSS mead and grabs I'M. Sne
had on black dress, with white col
lar. sThe black dress and collar looked
mighty like servant.
eyer horse is mighty springy,' I
says.
"'Atuch obliged for stoppin' 'im,' she
says. 'Rldin' among the trees is dan
gerous. I might have had me head
taken off by low branch
fright y are says 1. 'Ye're fine
horsewoman. don't wonder yer mis-
tress has v break tn her cobs.'
'She looked at me Gurus loike and
says:
"'What re y dom in here?
'''1 list walked in to see the place.
says /. And a fine one 1t is
lido y know any of the servants?'
"'No, l don't, but I'm liken to make
their acquaintance
"'What for?' she asked, givin' me a
sly look.
*I'm a sociable man and likes to
spend me money in good comnany.'
"'Y' mean yere in the perfession and
wants to git chance to crack the
crib
"'Y' do me great Injustice I per-
tested, reproachful loike.
"'S'posin' l gives y a chance, what
is there in 1t for meY
''Y' could ha' knocked me down with
a feather. I'd come all the way to
meet suthin loike this, eXpectin' to hev
to work me way stealthy, and here it
was throwed right in me face.
"'I've money in me pocket l told
her. 'I'll pay down $50 and if y IL
meet me in the city after the job I'll
give y q share O. the profit
".I'll not trust y for the profit she
says. Make it hundred and I'll put
v on the track O. as fine haul as y
ever made in yer life
II give her the hundred and she told
me when the night come to climb the
trellis at the back o. the house, first.
maxim sure the lights was out and the
house quiet-after 2 O'Clock in the
mornin', for the quality sets up late
and after crossin' the roof O. the porch
I'd find winder unlocked. l was to
git in and go down the hall two doors
to the right, and I'd find the silver
stored away in closet.
"'How will git out O. the place with
the high wall and the gate locked?
"'I'll speak to the porter she says.
He's one of us Be off now; it won't
do for us to be seen talllin' here. I'd
lose me place for that alone
with that she spoke to her cob and
rode away.
II goes off half mile or so in the
woods and wanders about till the mid
die O. the night, then creeps up to the
crib, waitin' two hours longer for the
last light to go out and an hour more
to make sure all was asleep. Then 1
goes to the back O. the house, and,
sure enough, there was the porch and
the lattice, with no trouble at all to
climb to the roof. 1t was but three
steps to the window, and when tries
it, it slides up as if it had been creased.
II gifts into the winder and feels me
way along the wall till l comes to the
second door. 1t was standin' open, and
blessed the girl for maxim it so easy
for me. When l got into the room,
shet it and, first maxim sure the cur
tains was down, TUX out me bullSeye.
Openin' a closet, see heap all rolled
up in sheet and, feelin' of it, knows
by the heft that it was the silver.
"Well, didn't grudge the hundred
I'd give the girl, for l know'd there
was mighty lot of it and even melted
down there'd be ten times what I'd
paid for it.
"'Come out O that says mans
voice behind me, and, turnin', the leo
tries went up all over the house at
onct, and a cop had me covered.
well, they TUX me downstairs, and
there In fine toggery, stood the girl
that done me, a-givin' orders to the
servants, and 1t was plain enough she
was the mistress O. the house.
Madam says the p'liceman, VII
have to appear ag'in i'm in the morn
In
"'r'll do no such thing she saw.
naughty lire. He saved me from hav-
in me head taken off by the limb Of
tree when me horse was unmanagea-
BILE Let him 60
''They TUX me away, and the next
mornin, as no one appeared ag'in me-
they creased the cop, reckon-the
Judge give me thirty fur me character.
and so got off mighty easy. read an
account o. the affair in a paper, writ
ten up by the funny man, l reckon.
and it said the lady was a daughter o.
one o. them silver kings in the west
that had married New York swell.
Size was the best horsewoman, the best