Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-30

and confused young man managed to articulate.
 Hush! Not so loudv' she cautioned as she raised her hand and entered her I room.
 He stood there, feeling and looking like polite idiot for the next two minutes, and then Betty reappeared. held out the watches and rings on her palm and whispered:
 These are all l have been very honest with you. We are not keen for jewelry. Now won't you please go?"
 "Will you tell me whom I'm speak ing tor. was asked as the girl contin- ued to hold out her hand with her ear bent to hear if her mother was stir. ring.
 "I'm Miss Hardin.''
 Great Scottsv' with gasp ''Then you must be Will's sister. Let me say to you that am"-
 | Hush! You are Raffles--Mr Raf- fles. of course. Please. please go away. I wish we had twice as much to be robbed of. but you will have to be sat isfed. Here-I'll 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! Softlyr' 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 rectified?
 Will had said that he would be back on the 9 o'clock train. He had missed 1t, but might be expected at any min ute now. The first thought was to go outdoors and wait for him. The sec ond was to turn out the lamp and sit down in the library and wait for Will or daylight or something or somebody to come along and befriend him. This second decision was final. He stood in the hall, turned the light out,
 
 upon his movements. Ensconced in q | big leather chair, he had passed away half an hour in calling himself names and Eankering after his chum's scalp when he heard faint rustic outside the window near which he sat. He cooked his ear toward it, and a moment later he knew that some one outside had his hands on the sash Sixty seconds had not gone past when the catch was thrust over with a click, and the sash was carefully and slowly ! raised
 1 Young Archer was excited, but he was game. IL looked as If kind Providence was sending a Rallies to help him out of his fix. He rose and stood beside the window with his pis- tol in hand! He meant to shoot the intruder If he stepped into the room, but q 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 ised 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 a blow that dropped him like log.
 He had just fallen when Will Hardin opened the front door and entered As he scratched match to see his way upstairs he noticed the lamp on the hall tree and lighted it, and next in- stant his sister Betty came running downstairs to gasp out:
 "Oh, Will. we had to come home and you didn't meet us and mother is very oakland Rallies has been here and robbed the house-and"-
 "Ratsr' interrupted the brother.
 But 1t surely was Rallies. called him Mir Rallies, and he didn't deny his identity. I gave him all our jewelry. and then he came down for the plate. He acted real nice on mothers ac- | count"
 The library door stood partly open. and of course young Archer had heard all. Now was the dramatic moment, and he came forward and showed him. self As the girl uttered an exclama- ton and shrank back he said:
 "Will, there has been a comedy of errors, with something like a tragedy to end up with. If your sister will go upstairs and you will come in here, think that all can be satisfactorily ex- plained"
 And all was 1t was done in sec tions and methodically. As first move the arms and legs of the man on the floor, who was beginning to re- vive were bound. When the mask was torn from his face, they saw that he was indeed the Rallies who had ter rorized the manor houses for long | weeks.
 Then Miss Betty was brought down and formally introduced to Archer. By this time she had exchanged her wrapper for something more appro- priate for receiving company. Then the stolen jewelry was restored Then the nearest country police station was telephoned to and Rallies was re- l moved. Then the mother awoke and