Mower County transcript., 1908-09-16
AT TER THE BURGLAR
WENT THREE HEROIC MEN IN
THE DEAD OF NIGHT.
Ready to Sacrifice Their Lives II De,
fense Of Their Property They
Advanced on the Marauder
the House Cat, !

It was night. Deep, dark night, all
over Reno, including the home of Tom
Ramsey. The darkness in the rooms
Of the Ramsey home was so dense 1t
could have been discovered by a bar
keepers convention. Tom Ramsey
discovered it as soon as he got home,
but he went to bed just the same, and,
enjoying the possession of clear con-
science, he went to sleep without loss
Of time or anything else. Tom didn't
sleep long, however, Notwithstanding
the clearness Of his conscience, and
when he aWoke it was with the well-de-
fined thought that there was some
thing unusual doing in the house.
Cautiously and with stealth he arose
and, securing his trusty automatic
from the refrigerator, and wrapping
his clinging kimono about his shapely
form, he sailed forth from the bed
room into the darkness, now freighted
with lurking, mysterious danger, into
the rooms beyond. First, he awak-
ened his son in low, tense tones, bade
him arise without noise, and arm him
in the basement preparing to blow the
house up, or something like that, and,
anyway, it was necessary to get q
move on. ~ ...:z.
Mr.. Ramsey, Jr., climbed promptly
out of bed, and arming himself with q
miners candlestick of the latest and
most deadly pattern, followed his war
like father forth to the fray. =.
There was a roomer upstairs, and he,
| too, was served with notice to come
forth and do battle in defense Of the
house Of Ramsey, and hastily drawing
| his trousers from the place between
the mattresses, where he kept them
to keep the creases from going away
while he slept, he was soon member
of the now fully assembled army.
~"Hist!" came from Ramsey, in low,
vibrating tones which made the hair
on the back of the roomer's neck turn
it's ends upward and his toes curl In
eagerness to be moving (away from
the scene of the threatened carnage)
and in his heart he considered the
| question whether or not it would not
be best to desert, then and there, and
so avoid taking the life of the man
lurking somewhere in the gloom, all
unknowing, waiting for an awful death
The son of Ramsey and the roomel
followed the lead of the grizzled vet
eran, guided by the soft, almost in
audible froufrou of his silk kimono
From room to room the sleuths moved
as silently as the shadows they woul6
have cast if there had been any light
and poked around the corner of every
door-jamb in advance of the party wa:
the trusty automatic and the deadl!
candlestick, and ever and anon came
the threatening chatter of the teeth 0
the roomer, who longed for the fra.
and cory glory which was sure to fol
low the onset.
Theer was nothing doing in the an
archist or dynamiter line above stairs
and then the party silently deploye'
on to the floor below, where it wa
not kept long waiting.
Suddenly, and with appalling noise
from a far corner Of the room cam
the sound of the enemy. There wa
a spitting-thudding sound, followed b.
the crash of heavy weight striking
something with great force, followe
in turn by slighter sound from var
GUS parts of the room, and the daunt
less three were just on the point o
opening fire in an attempt to SCI
their lives as dearly as possible, whe
. the roomer and the younger Ramse
, we're startled and somewhat relieve
, to hear the voice of the older Ramse
reverberating in clarion tones: "Ol
, fudge, it's only cat"
: Silently, and with the gravity b,
) coming the release from the necessit
( of shedding human blood, the roome
, Ramsey, and Ramsey junior returne
r to the slumber regions above, thinkin
r of the goodness Of providence in spa
. ing them from the necessity Of bloc,
shed.-RenOt Evening Gazette.