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Show I Adventures in Hie Dark. ! Last night, just ;ftor Blinkns and his wife were mugly td wed i.nay in bed, Mrs. B. thought fhn hennl the I front door slam. j "Hubbie, dtar, do yni heur t tin t front door slammm' ? ' "No, dearie, 1 locked it just Ik-Iuiu I wound np the clnck." "I didn't see you go out in the hall." "But I did, love; 1 know when 1 locked the door, dammit 1" "Now, you shan't swear at me. That door is open, and you know it. 'SpoBiu' the burglars get in and carry ofl all the silver. We'd be in a nicu fix." "They'd he worse ofl with the old plated Blu IT. Besides, who ever heaid of a burglary above A street ?" "If you dou't get up and lock that door I'll rush out and scream for tho police. I'll rouse the neighborhood il it's the last act of my lile." Blinkus, somewhat alarmed at the j threat, rode up aad bpgan to fnniblo 1 for a match. "The matches are at the end of Ihe waalistand, love." "I never saw such an awkward man since I was born," quoth !Urd. B. from the bad, just as he siumblod buck or a spiltrou aud sal down in it ho forcibly tbat it was smashed into forty pieces. "OLord !" ejaculated Mrs. B. Blinkus next struck his tne against a towel rack, and an oath dusolved itself in the darkness. Then he steppeil on the baby's rattle, and ran 1 one of tho points into his foot half an (inch. Jumping aside, he upset the centre table, and began to flounder out toward the hall. His young hopeful's hope-ful's carriage waa there, and he IV-ll over it six different ways before lit reached the door. "Was it oueu?" queried a voice from the bed. No 1" "Oh ! it must have been so ncthing e!se I heard." |