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Show we dri-.-woJ iitkl liurriL-d over to Mr. An-', An-', divws'. ns-rtT imv slopping loervn look I , ui Hit- tit" i of ilit- room in whtjh om ! , visiiut w a? fon'imil I W't- mm our sinrv. unJ 1 am sorry to 1 suy that vl- miulo it u iriilu lartr ilian it oliouKt liuvt- Iki'ii. I AL rir-U Mr. Aiuhvws. woulJ LKt believe 1 J us: hut in lehili lie tiKili bis hired mun 1 undslartiHl tortlw bouse. We lollowt-d. I I not curing tu be I be first onea tbei-e. They tixik iiolliin in defend llietuselv eH 1 wiili, despite our protests tbut wo were sure the nbl.. r whs untied. 1 We were anxious to keep up our pood I rerord.and m Itoldly kKkhI by while they 0K'tieil tin- dtmr tti l be eloset. The door Hew ojh ii uml there mood-Fritz, mood-Fritz, our tl'v;: Alus lor our bravery I It did not ! amount to nnieh now, hince most any-! any-! body eould nit up eourago enough to I nliut a up in a clos-i. Mr. And re w wus (it fi rst b 1 1 r pr isod , and then, when be fully realized what I we had done, he laughed until ho could laugh no more. I "Well, never mind, boys," be mud. 1 "you re:tlly thought that be was a burg ! lur, and it took as inueh courage lode I what you did uh though ho had been I one." I 1 think wo could huvo Ktood it vow ! well if Mr. Andrews' hired man bad not j told everybody that he iiictahoui il. The . Iiovb at w.hool made our lives utterly : wretchexl. i It was soon forgotten, however, by till : : except I'rcd and myself; and 1 don't j Clunk that we will t;oon forget tho niln ; j that wu kept poor Fritz shuL in a closet. ! j under the delusion that we were doing j something courageous. Clifford Trem- bly in (iolden Uas. CAUGHT THE CUliGLAR. "1 am very sorry to leave you, boys, but since Aunt .Sarah needs mo so badly I think it is my duty to go," said my mother, as father was preparing to help her in tho carriage. "Uh, we won t mfnd it In the least," replied 1 Tho carriage was soon lost from view iiiouud tho curve in the road, and we were masters of the place. We lived in a country village of New liugland, in a large, old fashioned, ram-, ram-, bling house. Mother bad received word : that her sister was very sick, and as it was only a few miles, father was going '. to drive over with her, and then come back the next day We weru all to take our meals at a neighbor's house, and, j altogether, we expected to have a fine : time by ourselves. i Hy "We- i,M.ai Pred. my brother, and myself, unless you counted the dog. Frit?.. In that case there were three ; of us I We l-aisied ourselves at first one thing ! and then another until it began to grow ! dark. Alter supper we tried to read, but somehow wo could not gel interested in , any book or paper that wo could find. 1 " W hat if a burglar should come around hereto-night what would you do?" in-I in-I quired Fred. i "Do?" replied 1 in scornful tones, for I ' rather prided myself on my courage; j "why. of course, wo would do the best we could. If ho was stronger than both , of uh I suppose then we should have to . give in, but if ho is not then he had bet-: bet-: ter keep away from here" I "But there might be two of them." "Well, let's talk about something else. ; It is not probable that anything of the kind will happen." said 1, quite willing i to let the subject drop, since Fred wue bound lo have more than one of them. 1 "Will Andrews." continued Fred, "told uio today about a cousin of his that had his house entered at night by four men, and they hound and gagged him, and then made him give up every tiling that i they wanted." "Oh, that's nothing!" I replied, and proceeded to give an account of another ! one more dreadful than that. We told of first one terrible thing and i then another until it trrew late : "Well, let's go to bed." and taking tho lamp, 1 started lo lead the way. "I'd just as soon you would go tirst, Fred not because I am afraid," I hastily added, add-ed, for fear he would think that I was a coward, "but because because" ' " I )idn't you hear something then?" asked Fred, as he drew closer to me. "That's nothing but the wind rattling the vines on tho sloop," answered 1. i Wo finally got to bed, though not with i out a good many looks about the room, as tho stories that we had been telling each other bad the effect of making us rather well, a little careful. Father was the possessor of a large old fashioned revolver, aud, armed with this, we felt reasonably secure, against any attack that might be made upou us. "Aro you suro that you locked the door?" inquired Fred after we had got into bed, "Of course I have," 1 replied, with , some sharpness, for I always wanted il distinctly understood that 1 did not make such foolish mistakes. 1 think it was about 11 o'clock when Fred pulled me by the arm and woke me up. "What's tho matter?" I asked. "Listen. Somebody's in tho hall." The room was perfectly dark; but wo cot yd hear somebody going up to the farther end of the room, which was very large, and then we heard the closet door creaking on its hinges. Fred trembled, aud so did 1. wholly forgetting the revolver which was resting rest-ing peacefully under my pillow. "He's gone in the close!." said Fred, between his clutches ut mo. And then wdiut did that boy do but i-rlowly crawl out of bed, go noiselessly ! up to the door of tho closet und Bhut it! ; It wus a large, massive door, on strong hinges, with a largo bolt on the outside, which he fastened. 1 then and there solemnly made upmy mind never to plague Fred wivii being a coward again. lie hurried buck to the bed and took hold of me, and then wo both ran to the other end of the hall to mother's room. 1 We locked lho door this lime, jumped into bed ami pulled every one of the bed clothes over our heads. Wo heard the , burglar making considerable noise for some time and then all was quiet, except the beating of our hearts, which Fred insists to this very day that he heard. Tho chisel was large und contained a ; window, through which the burglar could havo escaped bad it not been sc high from the ground. "Fritz is barking right under that window," win-dow," said Fred. "Yes. 1 wonder why ho did not bark , when ho was coining in? Do you sujj-poso sujj-poso there' d uioro-than ono of them?" 1 inquired. "Perhaps there's z dozen, and if thoy should set ihe house on fire, then what would we do?" he answered. "If 1 only had the revolver, " "No. you wouldn't." put in Fred. "You had it once and never did a thing with it, even when you had the chance." For the lii'sl lime, 1 think. 1 allowed , Fred to taunt me with being a coward. We heard the clock down stairs strike twelve, when we w ere sure it was nearly da light. "Have we got to slay here all night, with a burglar caged up in our house?" inquired Fred, h" -tu' k iii h out from iini I r t lie el- he- (. a few minutes. "I'ont know wliul el .so we can do." I replied, "unless we dress and go over to , Mr. Andrews' house." "But there's probably u whole lot of them waiting in the yard to bIiooI us down, or do something else to us, if they only get ihe ciuitnwr" I was nol nt all .averse to remaining where i was, as 1 don't think there was a single thing that I wanted ever so much nol even a new pair of Bkates that would have tempted me to crawl out from under those bedclothes for the briel space if live minutes, i Finally the mghtdid wear away, somehow, some-how, but we thought each minute was an Laf. Ab booij u it was fairlv dyLiht, |