Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-12-31
"He sounds like a

prisoners tones. "He sounds like
gentleman
'Neyer a mistake. young lady" re
piled the gardener as he marched to
and fro before the door. Its the gen
tlemanly Raffies we've got inside, and
It's Raffies who'll stay there till the
boy can find and bring Constable Drew
and forty other men to take him out
and send him to prison for life. Away
with you. Teddy knew that some
thing was going to happen when | got
up this morning feeling like hero"
Judith and the servant girls with
drew, and the boy FASTENED in search
sf help, while the gardener paced up
md down and halted at intervals to
assure the prisoner that the slightest
move. to regain his liberty would re-
suit in sudden death. For a time
Raffles seemed DESTROYS of maintain
ing a conversation and forcing ex
plantations, but he was discouraged SO
often and with such bloodthirstiness
that he finally gave it up.
An hour later, by means of the
telephone, two bicycIists and an auto,
Teddy managed to get into communi-
cation with Constable Drew. At 2
o'clock that official appeared, accom-
panied by a crowd of men and boys
and dogs to the number of forty Most
of the men were armed, the dogs ready
to bite and the boys to yell. Miss Ju-
dith stood under a tree and told her
story, and when it was finished the
constable looked about on the crowd
and said:
IF this hain't q clew, then my ten
years as a constable goes for nothing.
| want you all to take notice that it
was my stopping here and giving the
gal p'inters that has resulted in the
capture of the desperatest and das-
tardest criminal in the annals Of
crime''
Then the crowd moved on the ga
rage. Raffies had been very quiet for
the last half hour. There was a ten
minute discussion as to whether holes
should be cut in the door and the pris-
oner shot down without mercy or
whether he should be given chance
to surrender and go to state prison for
life. 1t was the pleading of Miss Ju-
dith that decided the constable in fa-
vor of the latter course.
The question had just been decided
when Widow Long, her son and two
sisters arrived from the city, and Fred
proceeded to take charge. Under his
directions, with the constable good
secondhand the gardener a shaky third,
the force was formed in a crescent
and the garage door thrown open.
Resistance to the law means death!"
shouted the leader as he stepped back
and made ready with his shotgun.
There was no resistance Out from
the sweat box in which he had been
imprisoned for hours came a demure
and perspiring young man of eight
and twenty. After one long look at
him Fred Lang threw up his hands
and gasped out:
''Holy smoke. but it's Paul Steyensr'
Paul Stevens, the wealthy young
bachelor and clubman! He had come
down to look over the Agnew place,
which was for sale, and the deaf old
Mr.. Jones had directed him wrongly.
OF course the constable and his crowd
departed; of course Paul was introduc-
ed all around; Of course he stayed to
dinner
The Agnew villa was not bought I'M
til year later, though the prisoner
carried an option on it, He wanted to
be sure of a certain condition before
buying, and that was announced sew
eral weeks since his engagement to
Judith Lang.
The garage now being erected on the
place will have telephone communica-
tion with the house, so that any one
suddenly and Illegally and unlawfully
imprisoned therein may use the wire
to vollch for his identity and respecta-
bility.