The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1908-08-12

honest with you. We are not keen for
!ewelry. Now won't you please goT
'Will you tell me whom I'm speak
Ing to-" was asked as the girl contin-
ued to hold out her hand with her ear
bent to hear II her mother was STIR
ring.
Pm Miss Hardin"
"Great Scottsr' with gasp. 'Then
you must be WINS sister. Let me say
to you that | am
Hush! You are Raffies-Mr. Raj
fies, of course. Please. please go away.
l wish we had twice as much to be
robbed of. but you will have to be sat
islied. Here-Ill put the things In your
coat pocket. Now go on tiptoe. You
may leave the lamp burning after you
get through robbing downstairs, and
I'll come down after It, Hush! Softlyw
Young Archer wanted TO stop and
explain. but she laid one hand on his
shoulder and urged him along and the
first thing he knew he was at the foot
of the stairs and white hand was be-
Ing waved to him from the top. Where
should he go? What should he do?
There was an awful mistake. but how
was 1t to be reetified?
VIII had said that he would be back
on the 8 o'clock train. He had missed
1t. but might be expected at any min
ute now. The first thought was to go
outdoors and walt for him. The sec
nd tn f,tr In lar al
down In the library and walt for VIII
or daylight or something or somebody
to come along and befriend him.
This second decision was flnal. He
stood In the hall, turned the light out,
and somehow he felt that eyes were
upon his movements Ensconced In q
big leather chair, he had passed away
half an hour In calling himself names
and laundering after his chum's scalp
when he heard falnt rustic outside
the window near which he sat.
He cooked his ear toward 1t, and q
moment later he knew that some one
outside had his hands on the SASH
the catch was thrust over with click,
and the sash was carefully and slowly
raised.
Young Archer was excited, but he
was game. 1t looked as II kind
Providence was sending a Raffies to
help him out of his fix. He rose and
stood beside the window with his pis-
toll In hand. He meant to shoot the
intruder II he stepped into the room,
but sudden thought made him
change the weapon end for end. The
report OF the pistol would arouse the
whole house and he had tacitly prom
Used the girl upstairs to keep very
quiet. The man who had raised the
sash waited thirty seconds and then
stepped over the sill to meet q blow
that dropped him like a log.
He had Just fallen when VIII Hardin
opened the front door and entered. Az
he scratched match to see his way
upstairs he noticed the lamp on the
hall tree and lighted 1t, and next In
slant his sister Betty came running
downstairs to gasp out:
4 "9h, VIII, we had to come home
and you didn't meet us-and mother ii
very bad-and Rafiies has been here
and robbed the house and
RATS" interrupted the brother.
but 1t surely was Rallies. called
him Mr.. Rallies, and he didn't deny hii
identity. | gave HIN all our jewelry
and then he came down for the plate
He acted real nice on mothers &C
count"
The library door stood partly open
and of course young Archer had heard
all Now was the dramatic moment
and he canA forward and showed him
self. As the girl uttered I'm exclama
tIon and shrank back he said:
| "Will, there has been u comedy Of
errors, with something like tragedy
to end up with. If your sister will &C
upstairs and you Will come In here,
think that all can be satisfactorily ex.
| planned"
| And all was. 1t was done In sec.
tons and methodically. As a first
move the arms and legs OF the man
on the floor, who was beginning to re
yive, were bound. When the mask
was torn from his face, they saw that
he was indeed the Rallies who had ter
rorlzed the manor houses for long
weeks
Then Miss Betty was brought down
aud formally introduced to Archer.
BY this time she had exchanged her
| wrapper for something more appro-
pirate for receiving company. Then
the stolen jewelry was restored, Then
the nearest country police station wsa
telephoned to and Rafiies was 70.
said she had had good nights sleep
| and felt well enough to come down tG
breakfast, and she didn't faint away
when told OF the doings of the night.
Then, ny sort of closing chapter to
the events, brother VIII beckoned bis
sister to follow him out into the shrub
berry, aud when they were hidden from
sight of the house he turned on hel
aud said.
ISIS, you are brick-a regular
brick"
"Yes?" she smiled.
"And Frank IL brick-a regular
brick"
"Yes?"
"And by the great horn spoon, Il
you two bricks don't fall In love with
each other and give him to me for q
brother-In-law Pll-Plr-
And then Betty blushed and laughed
and ran away.
| sos.