Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-26
cabulary, the young doctor finally an- chered the shimmying metal.

"There p he snorted triumphantly- and dropped the scissors. They clinked and rang as they fell With 8 shrug he peered after them and then clarhbered
 back into his warm bed and thankful slumber.
 It was just a. m. when little Mrs. Driller, the wife of the dentist on the | third floor around the corner, shook her husband awake.
 | "Artemus p she gasped Get up! l l went into the bathroom to get the baby a drink-and saw it just as plain as day!
 Why I'm telling you! A burglar! He had f1ashlight and everything and that
 fire escape leads up this way" Into the fray sprang pr. Driller. There l trade which he had just finished paying
 for and considerable treasure in gold, to
 say nothing of electric apparatus. He hung out of the open window into the gray darkness of the faintly-lighted street.
 Right there" Mrs. Driller told him Iemphatically, 'I saw him as plain as day and he was perfectly e-norneus.'' .'' l Being a man of decision, Dr. Driller swooped down upon the phone and stir
 red up the police station. If you hurry.
 he promised the yawning sergeant, you
 can catch himi"
 In the darkness Dr. DriIler and his wife sat shivering and waiting excitedly
 Anyhow, I've got two hatpins here! !' ex-
 claimed Mrs. Driller heroically.
 The clang and metallic tinkle of the
 scissors as they felf from the fingers
 of the young doctor had startled Miss Little, the maiden lady who did home
 millinery work and suffered from wake' fitness. She had been reading an ex' citing detective story in bed and the noise fell upon keenly alert ears III Breathing hard, she padded to her win
 dow jWBt in time to see the bulky shape upon the fire escape turn on the flast downward and then disappear mysteri
 ously in the darkness before her eye: grew accustomed to the change of light
 With a stifed shriek, Miss Latl 7 funged out into the hall and rang wig korously the bell leading to the distan } apartment of Oscar, the janftor. Sh' ) rang until fear that the burglar by nov would appear in that very hall drove he back into her own flat, where she locke, ] the doors and dragged furniture in iron , of them. Then she, too. called up th
 police station.
 l "Tm sure it's a band :" she quavered T saw several-I am sure of it Hurry ! = "Gosh!' gasped the sergeant, thorough l ly awake by this time.
 several late paSSeTS-Dy pduSeo hhel the patrol wagon silently drew up and y number of 'bluecoats as silently emerged l guns in hand.
 9 ''They must be breaking into the flu f storev' said one man importantly. "Ey e cry fur store is being entered these day n T shall telephone KoFinsky to com s right over-he's nice little man, and 1t
 shame i''
 9 Oscar, stumbling out sleepily into th T main hall, blinked stupidly when six pc :. licemen. grabbing him, demanded tn e whereabouts of the burglar. Burglar t asked Oscar placidlys
 ', Whats the trouble!" asked the pho e tegrapher, opening his door just then IT
 quiringly. Doors began opening in a e directions and people appeared in hast y apparel. Behind heC barricade Miss Lii !. tie shivered and upstairs the Dr.llers ss l. waiting with the two hatpins. Korinsk
 arrived at deuble-quick down below l. Voices called. answered, lights weT flashed in all directions. After an hou f of excitement, during which forty-fou
 persons had theic night practical 1 ruined, the patrol drove off growing. l, Just one individual in the lbuildin s slept on sweetly, relaxed in happy stun r bers. the refe8 of knowing he had don F good job. It was the young doctor II 1 Exchange.