Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-11-09
AFTER THE BURGLAR |: R {;
WENT THREE HEROIC MEN IN
.. THE DEAD OF NIGHT.
Ready to Sacrifice Their Lives in De.
tense Of Their Properly, they
Advanced on the Mara1der
the House Cat. ...#

.... .;---'ne e'ouse 3Nr
1t was night. Deep, dark night, all
over Reno.l including the home of Tom
Ramsey. The darkness in the rooms
Of the Ramsey home was SO dense it
could have been discovered by bar.
keepers convention. Tom Ramsey
discovered It as soon as he got home,
but he went to BEG just the same, and.
enjoying the possesai9pp pf q clear son;
scienGe, he went to sleep without lpss
Of time or anything else. Tom didn't
sleep long. however. Notwithstanding
the clearness Of his conscience. and
when he awoke Il was With the, .welf.ddss
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 kimopo about, his shapeiy
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, babe
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 a
move on.
Mr.: Ramsey, Jr., climbed promptly
out of bed, and armiDg himself with a
miners candlesuck Of the latest and
most deadly pattern, followed his war
like father forth to the fray.
There was roomer upstairs, and he,
too, was served with "a 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 a 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
its 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 roomer
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 would
and poked around the corner Of every
door-jamb in advance of the party was
the trusty automatic and the deadly
candlestick, and ever and anon came
the threatening chatter OF the teeth Of
the roomer, who longed for the fray
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 deployed
on to the floor below, where it was
not kept long waiting.
Suddenly, and with appalling noise,
from q far corner of the room came
the sound of the enemy'. There was
spitting-thudding SQUAD, followed by
the crash Of heavy weight striking
something with great force, followed
In turn by slighter sound from vari-
GUS parts of the room. and the daunt-
less three were just on the point of
opening fire in an attempt to sell
their lives as dearly as possible, when
the roomer and the younger Ramsey
were startled and somewhat relieved
10 hear the voice of the older Ramsey
reverberating in clarion tones: "Oh,
fudge. It's only a cat"
Silently, and with the gravity be.
coming the release from the necessity
of shedding human biocd, the roomer,
Ramsey, and Ramsey junior returned
to the slumber regions above, thinking
of the goodness Of providence in spar
ing them from the necessity Of blood.
shed.-Reno Evening Gazette.
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