The daily Alaskan., 1905-06-10
FOR TEN YEARS
nO,Dv-lrbt Ials by CR. IIewIs !

W ute came aAOnA AS A NtllN4Al liANahNN buyer and rented one of the rooms over the bank.
 NIT. White was very friendly with me and lattered me So extensively that I wondered what object De had in view. possessed duplicate keys Co all the rooms on the second floor and one dny visited Mir. Whites room when he wasn't there, and on rolling back the carpet found a hole In the floor over u.e vault As the vault top was rro. tccte,i by railroad iron his attempt had been a fatluCe.
 He had replaced the cut floor fairly well and then abandoned the idea Tor another. What was the othcrE
 The question bothered mo not lit tle for e week. Then found an an sver to it. One day when MT White droppci in to sec me | looked him over more carefully than had ever done before. I saw that he was a dctermin- cd and recklcSs man who would stop at nothing to carry out purpose Fail ing to get into the vault above or be low, wouldn't it be hlS plan Co Let DOS, session of the keys of tho bank and the vault and thus come at the moncyE | reasoned that it would, and two incl dents that fen under nay observation during the next fortnight strengthened my belief
 The first was that Mir White was cultivating our private w0tchman and seeking to make himself solid. The second was that l found him s6ulkiug shcut my house at night | concluded frou this latter circumstance that be was planning to pay me a midnight viSit tO get possession of the keys and | began making preparations to re- ceivS him.
 Burglar alarms were unknown In small towns in those days, and win dows were secured by driving nail over the sash. No dwelling house in town was secure enough to keep a burglar ou; if he wanted Co get in. | spent hag an hour surveying my house
 from the outside to decide by which avrnae Mir. White would seek to make his entrance. | finally concluded that hc would come across the common, climb my back fence and, keeping along under the shadow Ot row or frlir trees. reach the west window Of the dining room. He could work there unseen. and his chances 0f setting in were at least as good as anywhere ! else.
 To hurry up his plans a Nulc aud have the affair oG my hands ! invited him to lunch one day. On that day thc es st dining room window was Scgurcly | fe steued, but the west one was not ! We walked in the grounds that bc
 might note the best means of approach, ard at lunch I managod to convey the idca that was a sound sleeper and
 never feared burglars,
 To the best Of my knowledge and be- nrf. Mr. White was well pleased with ! tie outlOok-wcll pleased He saw his way clear to accomplish a certain ob- ! ject and after he had departed | got down the family almanac to consult the
 noon. | deiuced from it that | might expect a visitor about the third night, aud | therefore began Co prepare for
 him. Neither my wife nor children
 knew my suspicious or what | had in view, but at n o'clock on the third night | was ready and waiting
 Mr. White arrived at a quarter past the hour, seeming Co bC in a hurry Co
 close up the deal and get out ot town. | heard the drSt noise he made at the window, but my policy was silence. | Up went the sash, and iu Camc NIT. l Nhitc, and may say that hC was con
 sderably surprised at finding his right foot caught fast In a biz bear trap be- ! rcrS it had touched the floor The yell
 be uttered as the trap closed around his ankle proved that he was not altogcth- 1 CT Imperurbablc and also awo6c every member of my household,
 l had match ready Co light the 1 lsmp, and as soon as the room was iilu-
 minated saw the man lying on the n,,Or. I wished him good evening and
 in0uirNd about the weather outside and asked hin if he had droppcd anything,
 MT White was not the gentleman l
 had supposed him to bc, He sworc and
 rNved and called names, and his loud
 talk kept the hahy bowling and my wife on the verge of chill llc had
 come armed with a big knife, but as hc
 could not get at me this did him no ' good. He had also taken the trouble Co
 put on false whisIers and an old hat, and could and did truthcully tell him
 that they did not add to his personal
 appearance.
 The talk had with Mir White lasted about an hour-that Is, hc did most ot tle talking. and his conversation was all in English and Of tho most vigorous klad. When he wasn't SnCaA'DC and | wasn't running upstairs to assurr my W 'e that things were an right | got oC few wor,ls of well meant advice Hr didn't like it a little bit
 It was very interesting while it last ei'. and l made it last great deal louccr than Mir. White cared for. l WIS selfish enough and mean enough to want revenge for the worry he had caused me, and So | took things easy
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