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Show UR0PPED IN AT RIGHT TIME Burglar's Opportune Visit Enabled Woman to Rid Herself of Much Undesirable "Truck." The burglar hesitated. Back of him was a sheer drop of 25 feet to the ground. In front of him was a determined deter-mined woman, grasping in her hand a huge revolver. She covered him steadily. ' "I won't shoot," she said, "If you, will remain still." She advanced upon him and poking the muzzle of the gun In his face reached into his pocket and pulled out bis revolver. "Come in." The burglar obediently stepped Inside In-side the room. All his courage war gone. "Sit down," said the woman. He sat down. She got a huge ball of cord from her bureau and spent the next 20 minutes in tying him up. Then she pointed out of the window. "Is that your wagon out there behind be-hind the barn?" "Yes, ma'am." The woman called her husband, who was hiding behind the baby's crib In the next room. "Here, John," she said, "take soma of this furniture out." John came in and got to work. The burglar watched with curious eyes. Suddenly his face blanched. He looked out of the window and saw in the light of the moon what John was carrying. "What are you doing to me?" he asked. Tbe woman began cutting his cords. "I'm going to load you up with all of the old eyesores that we have had In the house for these many years," she said, merrily "all the furniture presented to us at Christmas by kind-hearted kind-hearted relatives, all the prizes we have taken at card parties, all the family portraits everything that we have been simply dying to get rid of." Life. |