Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-09-19

"Great Scotts. with gasp "Then
Won must be Wits sister, Let me say
10 you that l am"- ...Il /
"Hush! You are RaflesTMr Kal'
aes. Of course. Please, please go away
7 wish. we had twice as much 70 DC
robbed Of, but you will have to be SAT-
isied. Here--Pll put the things IN your
coat pocket Now go on tiptoe. You
NAV leave the lamp burning after you
get through robbing downstairs anu
Tll come down after 1t. Hush! Soluy!
Young Archer wanted to stop ana
explain. but she laid one hand on MS
shoulder and urged him along ana the
fret thing he knew he was at tile foot
Of the stairs and a white hand was De-
Ing waved to him from the top "nere
should he go? What should he 90!
There was an awful mistake, but no"
was It TO be rectifedF -
Will had said that he would be PACK
on the 0 o'clock train. he had missed
# but might be expected at any min-
ute now. The first thought was to go
ontdoors and wait for him. The sec
ond was to turn out the lamp and slt
down in the library and wait for WIZ
or daylight or something or SOMEBODY
70 come along and befriend him.
This second decision was final. lie
stood in the hall, turned the light out
and somehow he felt that eyes were
upon his movements. Ensconced In
bia leather chair. he had passed away
half an hour in calling himself names
and hankering after his chums scalp
when he heard a faint rustic outside
tho window near which he sat.
Tie cooked his ear toward 1t, and
moment later he knew that some one
ontside had his hands on the sash
sixty seconds had not gone past wheT
: the catch was thrust over with CLICK
= ana the sash was carefully and sloWl!
raised.
Young Archer was excited, but III
WAS game. 1t looked as II kin
evidence was sending Rallies L
h. IN him out Of his fix. He rose ah'
c stood beside the window with his pls
o tol in hand. He meant to shoot IN
+ intruder If he stepped into the room
; but a sudden thought made Ill
0 change the weapon end for end. In
0 renort of the pistol would arouse III
t uhole house and he had tacitly prom
a iged the girl upstairs to keep yer
IS oulet The man who had raised III
y sash waited thirty seconds and the
L stepped over the sill to meet Do
Is that dropped him like log.
% He had Just fallen when VIII Harq
ID onened the front door and entered. :
70 he scratched a match to see his Wa
le upstalrs he noticed the lamp on q
le hall tree and lighted it, and next j
IS stnnt his sister Betty came runnli
u, downstairs to gasp out: VI
et "Oh. VIII, we had to come home
=, 10 and you didn't meet us-qnd motner
u very bad-and Raffles has been ne
and robbed the bouse-and'-7a g.
ea "Rats!" interrupted the brother .
Oh "But it surely was Raffies. / can
y. him Mr.. Rafiles, and he didn't deny
er Identity. I gave him all our jewelll
IN ana then he came down for the pla
eli He acted real nice on mothers I
81 count" .u. y.
~ The library door stood partly OPP
~ IL and of course young Archer had hes
- Mi Now was the dramatic nome
e and he came forward and showed III
y" self AS the girl uttered an exclan
.,,. ton and shrank back he SAID;
~ ..Wiu there has been comedy
49,, 49,, errors. with something like trag'
an le TO end up with. If your sister VIII
n ,n upstairs and you will come in here
~ think that all can be satisfactorily
md planned :,
! l~ - And all was. 1t was done in
1Ta tions and methodically. As
move the arms and legs of the Il
on the floor. who was beginning to
80 vive. were bound. When the m
- vos torn from his face, they saw
20 he was indeed the Rahles who had
~ rorized the manor houses for
the weeks.
, ~ Then Miss Betty was brought dC
in q and formally introduced to Arc
bor Rv this time she had exchanged
o. wrapper for something more ap
ivod nriafe for receiving company. !
the the stolen jewely was restored. l
This the nearest country police station
rom telephoned to and Raflles was
inst moved Then the mother aYoke
she said she had had good nights
ti' and felt we'll enough to come dow
OF breakfast. and she didn't faint u
rhev when told Of the doings of the mig
thev Then. as a sort of closing chapt'
she tbe events. brOther VIII beekpneC
hum sister to- foilow'hlih' out into the 81
f his bery and when they were hidden
lister eioht of the house he turned on
noes, "-iT isis, s..' yoq. are "a bFieh7a re-
0 re- brick"
was tYes? she smiled.
n the and Frank is a brick-a re
p no brick"r
Sc to "YesY
sand by the great horn spoo
( she you two bricks don't ran III loNe
shock each other and give him to me
brother,in-law Fll-Pll"-
won And then Betty blushed and la'
.... and ran away.
lown- -..i ia --,;- - e.. lar ~
very
If so, TPop!
parlor Yes my SUI SUI ,,.s wood II
want they say nothing, don't itF
eyes. my boy"