Omaha daily bee., 1912-01-27

n she called-who would hear her? The
adjoining apartment was vacant, and
they could not hear across the hall. The
telephone. But the telephone was In the
next room. The burglar would hear her
run 10 II and would strange her into
silence before she could call
Auother steaIthy movement from the
dining room! With her heart In her
throat she leaped out OF bed, snatehed
her dressing down from a chair as she
nassed and flew out into the hall Down
two flights of stone steps, with teartul
chances over, her shoulder, before she
nausea TO ring wildly the elevator bell
Rut by chance the elevator was just
canning up with a passenger MT
bennett whom Helen recognized as nv
inc on the floor above. Both her ana the
aIs,.a,or hoy stared at her wonderings'
"oh. there's a man In my apartment
she gasped. "ouick-ouick. He's In the
dining room.
Mr. Bennett who was in evening
dress, gripped his cane and started up
the stairs. Leaving the elevator where
4, was they all three ran up the steps.
Mr. Bennett started to open the door
then hesitated. ..-
These fellows are pretty desperate
sometimes. Guess I'd better get my re-
volyer, Wait here a moment starting
10 dash up to his apartment on the noor
above. -
But Helen and the elevator boy, with
visions o; a black-masked desperate dart
inc upon them, both dashed after him.
In a second Mr.. Bennett had his revived
and they were all running down the
stairs again.
Cautiously opening the door, with the
revolver In one hand and his stick tightly
rripped In the other. Mr.. Bennett paused
on the threshold.
Nothing greeted him but darkness and
silence.
.aThs button to switch on the light is
right there to your left" whispered
Helen,
Cautiously no stepped inside and
switched on the light. II lit up the hall
and par: Of tho front room-hut the DIN
ing room lay ia darkness beyond.
Helen was waiting for Mr.. Bennett to
stride into the dining room, collar the
blsnk- masked ruffian and drag him out.
Rut I. seemed that such = course o. ae-
ton was not in Mr.. Benefits mind.
Just then came the sound OF the same
steaithy movement from the darxnesS o.
the dining room.
'Ths.s-aant you hear thatT' whiS-
pered Helen. --..
1t was p,ala that Mr. Bennett had
heard. h.; Il was also plain that he was
not going to risk his lsa by encounterins
q desperate burglar In q ds<kened room
''Yoa run down aud phone TO the
police he whispered 10 the elevator Dor,
vho Ues tovesiaE wids-eyed in the back
grca=d. "rn see that he doesn't get
away ha.ora they get here"
ArsIa esc.a the steAlthy sound from the
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