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Show i A Scared Bc-aGL.ut. Mi3 Jean : Clara Walters is a lady w -:! kn .-wn to ! the hi Mines of tLo .' ! won enviable p 'ilari1) u in a few weeks. She resides at Mr. Ham-mar's, Ham-mar's, half a block sourh of the thea-' thea-' tre. On Wednesday night, after the performance closed, the returned to her residence and retired to her bed room, where "tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy Eleep," brought real and peaceful peace-ful slumbers. Thee, however, were broken towards three o'clock, by stealthy steal-thy stepd, and her eyes were opened to see the melodramauc action of the stage villain without the cit-tonmry music, the actor buing a fellow sneaking sneak-ing around her apartment on burlar-0U3 burlar-0U3 designs intent. She took in the situation in an instaut, and as Mrs. Siudons frightened a waiter by scolding bim for serving her with aa overdone beefsteak, in Lady Macbiith'a mot i sanguinary tunes, so Miss Walters treated her intruder to one of those ! ear-splittinsr, Llood-curdiing stage yells j which delight the deities of the upper I gallery and never fail to Liin a round 1 of applause. To my tho fellow was startled is putting it in miid phrase ; but Lo grabbed tho lady's jewel bos, her watch and a valuable ring, and d-ihed lor tho dor. Miss Walters had gained a perpendicular position and made for the burglar, treating him to another of those echoing echo-ing sounds, beside which his pantomimic pantom-imic action was tame, and a C:uianche's war whoop would be mild. This brought a ehoruj of streams from other ladie3 in the building, and a general hunting for revolvers, while the now thoroughly frightened burglar made for the outside, dashing his capture cap-ture of jewelry, w;tch and riu in the ball-way aa he madj his exit. The pity is that he wid not detained and engaged for anotaer act, with a court room scene ou the rising uf the cuitain and the penitentiary at the close of the piece. |