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Show I ' -! ' ' . 1 ' V ":::Jr.r A!:raI::s::It:d.aCrcDV nniPut . Out cf D:si::ss. ' "! T - t-".T ain't to thin rev " r:-r: , tau.'-e I know fcet-the fcet-the '.icv clous cracksman. 'A: 1' rj v in th'.t 1!: e that --I tD the I id. Didn't hear about (- , f s cl - .n gone lost his nerve. v - t i.ever be able to rob even a ' house any more. I know, 'cause I there. You see, Bill an' me had' it 1 up to do a likely-lookln place, : th-.-re wasn't but one window we 1 use. All the rest was barred good : ' -nty, but this here one was most r. It didn't. hava. no bars an' it ..y reached.' f - - til. It all come out at the trial, but t : time we didn't know how It was '-. We'd been give to understand t there wasn't no burglar alarm, but. e wasin't sure,'an-a bell ringin' or a-' a-' T soundin' wouldn't have done noth-.' noth-.' Lut start us on a quick sneak, but we o?n't prepared for no FhonogTaph no, r. An' we didn't get the rights of It 1 the trial. I made my getaway, but I was caught, he beln' knocked clean :y In the deal, an' when he- was tried : come out that they had .'the lever of a onogTaph fixed to the window an !..? phonograph. loaded fer ruys like us. ";ut I'm tellin'-you-how it happened" that night. Bill broke the' fastenln' iPFy an' pushed up the window. There" v c3 a sort of buzzin' that made us stop for a minute, but It didn't sound like.no burplar alarm, so Bill poked" hfs head ir.Pide. - . ' . . " 'Thief! thief! thief r some one cries In his ear. . , , '"You're a liar!' yells Bili,-Jumpin back an' pullin' the window down. 'I'm tryin" to be one he says, 'but I ain't ane yet not this time.' "We looked fer some lights to come In th windows, but none come. That loov-d funny, an Bill begin to look : tful. - . - " Tome Lloomln guy called me a thief,' he says. " 'It sounded that way,' says I, 'but maybe we was nervous.' ' - "I ain't never been nr-rvous before,' 6ays Bill, 'barrin' the f.rBt time, but there ain't no one there now.' " 'Try again,' says I. : "We waited a bit an' then put a flash of light on the window, but there wasn't no one beln' disturbed anywhere. So back we goes. Bill puts the window up again an' pokes his head In,- an' then "'Robber!' saya" the "voice. Oh, I heard it plain myself that time. - 'Robber! 'Rob-ber! It saya 'Y.ou're a robbe an' a thief! - Turn from your wicked ways.'. ' "-If I could see you,' says Bill, get-tin get-tin mad, I'd break your ugly head!' ."By that time Bill Is thmkin' only of whackln' the fellow once arf. makln' a run, when he gets the voice right plumb In his ear. - " 'Reform! it says. Reform? reform! .reform, you grave-robber!'. ... ... ".'A ghost!' yells BiU.an he. gives a Jump that' throws him over on his back. Meanwhile I'm makln' a run that would do fer . a 'college 'sprinter; .an'; when 'I slack up I see. two bulls .closlh; In on Bill, an' it'siall off. His yell had called em an' they had him before he-fjeta up. - "Yes, sir, Bill's lost -his "nerve. -Why, he was mumblln' like an old . woman when they got him to the station.' an' he was afraid to be left alone In a cell. " There won't nothlif .Mother . you here.' says the. lock-up -man." " -, - " That's what I thought In the other place,' says Bin. ' 'If I hear you yell.' says the lock-up man, 'I'll come to you.' 1 " 'It you hear me yell,' say's Bill, you send me a priest. There ain't no other man can rassle with what was callin me names in the other place.' - . "He found out what It was at the trial, but it ain't -no use his nerve's gone." Brooklyn Eagle. |