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Show Saved by Loving Wife A strange Incident happened not long ago in London. Tho master of tho houso whero It took placo had boon vory 411 for many days, struggling strug-gling with a malignant disease. Cora-ploto Cora-ploto rest was tho only panacea for tho sick man. Sloep uninterrupted sleep might possibly ensuro his recovery. re-covery. It was tho critical hour and tho critical momont of tho disease; llfo tromblod In tho balnnco llko a fading fad-ing candlo. A breath mlgat extinguish It. His anxious, loving wlfo, scarcely daring to hreatho, was sitting watchfully watch-fully by his bedside. She was qulto alone, for her sorvnnts, oxhaustcd by long and constant watching, had left her to seek a brief rest for their weary frames. It was past midnight; tho door of tho chnmhor was open for air. In tho stillness of tho night sho heard n window cautiously opened downstnlrs, but sho dared not inovo lest sho should awako her husband from thnt life-saving sleep. Still sho listened, but without tnklng her oyes from tho sleoplng Invalid. She heard cautiously approaching footsteps on tho stairs thoy drow nearor and nearer; near-er; still sho moved not Indocd she scarcely breathed, so lntonso was her anxiety. Thero was a pauso of a moment in which no sound was heard; then a mnn with his faco disguised stolo quietly Into the room and confronted tho patient watchor at the bedsldo. Sho saw her husband's dangor that was all sho thought of. This man was a burglar. Anticipating the design of tho daring Intruder, sho pointed to her husband, and, pressing hor flngor upon her lips to Imploro sllenco, held out to tho robber her purso and hor keys, Tho man, with a rovolvor In his hand, gazed upon her In sllenco. To hor great nmazemont ho took neither purse nor keys, hut, placing his weapon In his pocket, went noiselessly out of the room. Whether ho was torrlfled or charmed by the courago displayed by tho dovole.l wlfo cannot ho known. Ha lott even moro silently than ho had como, departing without robbing a houso sarctiflcd hy such strength of affection. |
