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Show AFTER THE BURGLAR WENT THREE HEROIC MEN IN THE DEAD OF NIQHT. Ready to Sacrifice Their Livai In Detente De-tente of Their Property, They Advanced on the Marauder .the House Cat, it was night. Deep, dark night, all over Reno, including the home of Tom Ramsey. The darkness in tho rooms of the Ramsey homo wns so dense It could have been discovered by n barkeeper's bar-keeper's convention. Tom Ramsey discovered It ns soon as ho got home, but he went to bed Just the same, and, enjoying the possession of a clear con. science, ho went to sleep without loss of tlnio or anything else. Tom didn't sleep long, however, notwithstanding tho clearness of his conscience, nnd when ho awoke It was with tho well-do-fined thought that there was something some-thing unusual doing In the house. Cnutlously and with stealth he arose nnd, securing his trusty automatic from the refrlgerntor, and wrapping his clinging kimono about his shapely form, ho sallied forth from tho bedroom bed-room into tho darkness, now freighted with lurking, mysterious danger. Into the rooms beyond. First, ho nwak-ened nwak-ened his son in low, tense tones, bade him arise without noise, and nrm himself, him-self, becauso thcro was an anarchist in the basement preparing to blow tho house up, or something like that, and, anyway, It was necessary to get a move on. Mr. Ramsey, Jr., climbed promptly out of bed, nnd arming himself with a miner's candlestick or tho latest and most deadly pattein, followed Ills warlike war-like father forth to the fray. There was a roomer upstairs, and he, too, wns served with a notice to come forth and do battle in defense of the house or Ramsey, and hastily drawing his trousers rrom the placo between the mattreBses, whero he kept them to keep the creases rrom going away while he slept, he was soon a member or tho now fully assembled army. "Hist!" camo from Ramsey, In low, vibrating tones which made the hair on the back of the roomer's neck turn Its ends upward and his toes curl In eagerness to be moving (away from tho scene of tho threatened enrnago), and In his heart he considered tho question whether or not It would not bo best to desert, then nnd there, and so avoid taking tho life of the man lurking somewhere In the gloom, all unknowing, waiting ror an awful death. Tho son of Ramsey nnd tUe roomer followed the lend of the grizzled veteran, vet-eran, guided by the soft, almost inaudible in-audible froufrou of his silk kimono. From room to room the gleutliB moved as silently ns t ! J they would have cast if Len any light, and poked aiw .... ner of every door-jamb In advance of tha party was the trusty automatic and the deadly candlestick, nnd ever and anon came the threatening chntter of the teeth of the roomer, who longed Tor the fray nnd gory glory which was sure to follow fol-low tho onset. Theer was nothing doing In the an-nrchlst an-nrchlst or dynamiter lino above stnlrs, and then the party silently deployed on to tho floor below, where It wns not kept long waiting, j Suddenly, and with appalling noise, ' from a far corner or the room came . the sound or the enemy. There was a spitting-thudding sqund, followed by the crash of a heavy weight striking something with great force, followed In turn by a Blighter sound from various vari-ous purls or the room, and the dauntless daunt-less threo wero just on tho point of opening fire in an attempt to sell I their lives ns dearly as possible, when I tho roomer nnd the younger Ramsey were startled nnd somewhat relieved to hear tho voice of tho older Ramsey reverberating In clarion tones: "Oh, fudge. It's only a cat." Silently, nnd with the gravity becoming be-coming the release from the necessity of Bheddtug human blood, the roomer, Ramsey, and Ramsey Junior returned to the slumber legions above, thinking of tho goodness of providence in sparing spar-ing them from, the necessity of bloodshed. blood-shed. Reno Kvenlng Gazette, |