Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-12
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hcors 81 tho law arc on his trail"
"Won?"
''How do YOU want to bet-win they
Captain. / have been reading about
him. ana wha; they say of him makes
me tired they haven't caught him,
ana Nc; Ec IS u bunglcr!"
is burglar who can rob twelve
houses ana not create single alarm
q buNclcrc"
= could DO as we'll. and have had
no experience.
The captain did no, want to en-
courage sUch talk and the results that
might come from IL, and sought to
changc tho conversation Young
Winters carclcssly replied to two or
three oc his questions. and then said:
/ This Rallies gets into 4 house and
takes whatever he comes to and gets
ONT lie even carries on plaster Of
/ Paris ornaments, and he Is shy OF
searching rooms where any one is sleep
ing"
But he's go, rich jcwelry among
his plumber
Yes, It was left for Kim on tho
dresser He didn', have TO pull out
a drawer TO get 1t. and 1 can't find
that he has entered house where a
dos was kept. He's "longshoreman
trying his hand at a new job Cap
tain
Eut the captain feared what WAS
coming, and said he had an engage
incnt
lie, it walt" was the reply. Cap
tain. III wager YOU thousand dollars
even up that"
Il won't do it, was the interrup
Hold on I'm going to out-Ranc
Rahes"
You will do nothing SO foolish as
10 attempt it,
NO; with criminal intent, OF course.
IN. So
is fine art, should be made so.
and that our country Rafiics ought TO
be driving d truck. Name a country
residence that you'd like to try my
hand on
And get shot?"
Not even fired at"
But IL arrested?"
That's one of the arts-to escapc
arrest"
Winters" said the captain after n
ions look at him, give up any foolish
idea you may have In that direction.
We will all agree that you could beat
| Rati,es's work. but don't try it,"
Ihcre are plenty Of men. young and
ola, who VIII get an idea into their
heads that they know is foolish. and
yet they will cling to it as if IL were
full OF sense and wisdom Young
Winters's common sense warned him
of the risks of burglary. but the
adventure of It appealed to him lust
as strongly. lie did not talk with
any of the other members OF the club
out there We're those who said:
Winters is plotting some new dew
iltry, and will soon be bluffing us for
4 wager Wonder what il will be this
timer"
Ex-Judge Purdy was member OF
the Jefferson Club, but as he lived in
manor house some twenty miles from
the city, and as he did not drop into
the club except at long intervals. he
and young Winters had never met
The latter had simply heard it said
one day that the former lived in the
country.
One June day the man who was en-
rious of Rallies took a trip into the
country, driving himself in his run
about. lie passed grounds after
grounds. and house after house In a
lursiVe way nc surveyed the latter and
made mental notes. When he slowly
passed fine colonial mansion with an
oldish man and young lady sitting
on the veranda, man running n lawn
mower and two dogs lying on tho
grass, he smiled and said to himself:
iii bet that is one of the houses
that that bungler. Rallies, has had
10 pass by as too hard nut for him
to crack"
Half mile further on he turned
about. and rs he passed the house
again the girl looked up and qucried:
Yes? Well, III give him a Job
at moving the grass"
They say he drives around by day
to pick out houses to rob by night"
We'll, bought you Il gun the other
day. and it's UP 10 you to protect the
house o. nights"
But If ] shot him, then what"
Why. you would be heroine and
have your picture In the paper. Per-
haps you could sell enough OF your
photographs To pay for a trip to
Europe"
and then the girl said: ~ should hate
TO kill Raffes"
But you needn't. dear" smiled the
father. 1T VIII be just as well If you
shoot him In the shoulder
And then"
we can nurse him right hero. and
It will give you chance to fall in
love. marry and reform HIM"
You silly old goose"
An hour later Miss EstelIe Purdy
asked the man who was moving the
lawn: James. do you think Rallies
viii try to get into our house?''
II do. miss" was the prompt reply.
"When?"
.'To-night."
"Lordy, but what makes you?"
i've got a hunch that he will"
And when Will he Gomez"
on the stroke Of midnight. II you
get up at midnight and look out OF
the window you'il see him standing
under the big willow tree"
And FL call to him that he Is known,
and that he'd better make himself
scarce"
Il wouldn't, miss" replied James,
who kept a very sober face, but was
nevertheless 'joshing' bit. you
should open fire on him without a
word. IT you called TO him he might
shoOt"
Il gee
That evening the girl read until
10 o'clock, and then going to her room
she prepared 10 stand sentinel until
midnight She realized that were she
To lie down for five minutes hhc would
fall sound asleep and miss midnight
and RanicH Az II waB. shc had hard
work 10 tight drowsiness. and had to