The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-10
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mistakes ! have made II trying 10 ge1
into TIE wrong douIcils- / sooB isaru-
/ sd fazt Z my Ia-chkey did not T0rA
essslv I rad better beat q retreat Bar
On this occasion ] must have found
The door unlarcbed-eIrber this or nv
kev hzpp@ned 70 Er the iock. for NC
no trouble IL getting in II il hadn
beer for the wine I lad drunk doubt
less / would hare realized that soDe-
thing vas wrong. for IN M Own house
the ball light would have been turned
sow. whEEe here IL was out
Ny foot tripod On something. and
stumbled but caught mySeIf Placing
mr. hat and oyercoat Il the hall closet.
was about 70 feel nay way upstairs
when / beard q voice II the adjoining
room IL was apparently that q
nervous old woman trying TO De Feso-
, lutte.
Go away at once. The house Is
wired for burglars. and the police will
/ be here directly"
What Ia the world was begin
ming when the same voice continued.
Il don't wish ron 70 be arrested and
20 70 Jail Do consider. Prison life Is
awful Just 20 right out the way ron
I came In. and you'll save lot Of trou
bic for yourselfT'
IL vas evident to me BY this time
that had made one Of my blundeFs
I In getting into the wrong house. ard,
not relishing being taken for a burglar
was about 10 apologize and 90 out
when il occurred to ua that an apollo
gy would neither 81 believed nor ac
cepsed and / had better make an exit
( without one. Indeed was not quite
sure but that some man might be
waiting with a gun till be could locate
the intruder. So / concluded TO - al
once. but objected 70 leaving ny haf
and oYercoat u establish nv identity
While / was feeling my way 10 the
closet all was silent. but no sooner bad
started for the door than an entire
Il different voice came from upstairs
Ii was apparently that Of a grit
III you must take something away
with you 20 10 the sideboard. ard
hanging 20 a rail- behind il you'H fne
the key to the dra wer. ard the silvei
: IS inside Take IL ali and welcome. only
go away as soon a possible"
This was too much. could not for
4 bear reassuring this tiuid crea ture
! whose voice was melodious.
Don't he frightened. I'm not
burglar at all I've simply made mis-
take and got into the wrong house II
= going away at once
Polite. Robbers. Murder
Confound the girl. She'll bring tn
police down on me and get me into
! tx.
Z shut upr' cried. 4 mean. be quier
l. Nobody's going 10 hurt you tell 20
q It's all mistake | i've IN this BLOCH
and my house Isl
Don't shoot, Take everything-si
/, yer. jewelry. alir'
l heSitated between Eight and goin
8 upstairs to calm this hysterical youn
e woman and finally concluded on th
b latter course. 1t seemed that the vote
70 came from the head OF the stairs.
II ran up two steps at a time. but wa
a not quick enough. There was a ligf
In this upper hall. but IL was turne
$50 low that 1 could only distinguish
table with box on II. but couldn
. see what the latter was Ike. IL Il
"a girl was In the hall | couldn't see he
81 | heard a door open and saw som
lie thing white cross the hall Then II
N gas jet was turned up. and l saw
y girl In her nightdress under It WIZ
20 she saw was a young man In evenin
dress. She put her hand on her hea
and staggered.
. Calm yourself" ! said 1--we bee
II afraid you would turn an innocent mi
81 take into a tragedy. Do look like
I'd burglar?'
n If you're not. what are you doir
v. hereT'
a. "Oh. Gwen" cried the old woman
:, voice / had heard downstairs. ''cou
= back He'll kin your
VI l was puzzled These persons hs
ag been talking to me. and yet they didr
IN seem to have heard me. And how d
n the old woman get upstairs?
Are you two deafT' l asked. in
oh. tated-
n Gradually the girl regained her ecu
|, nimity. Then she smiled Her smi
- broke into laugh.
90 What in thunder does it all mean
IL ! shouted
IN Wait minute and I'll tell you"
in She ran into a bedroom and in q
,ul other moment emerged In a kimou
ey She was very pretty In either costun
% Mamma and l live alone and are
constant terror Of burglars, SO we z
two monographs, and mamma talk
In one and / in the other the wor
you have doubtless heard. Every mig
we connect them with fine wire
the yestibue so that If a burglar bro
1t with his foot it would set the ri
an nographs talking
10 We'll, III be jingedr I exclaime
DIV I'D rather be arrested and jagged I
is a burglar than be made a fool or"
to a silvery laugh from the girl ra
. out. and l added
You need a man in this house, a
If you want me al you've got to do