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Show Saved by Loving Wife A atrange Incident happened not long ago In London. The master of tho houHo where It took place bad been very 111 for many daya, trus-gUiig trus-gUiig with a malignant ill?, ax. Complete Com-plete rest waa the only panacea for the sick man. Bleep uninterrupted sleep mlthi possibly ensure Ills recovery. re-covery. It was the crltlrul hour and tho critical moment of thu disease; life trembled In the balance like a fading fad-ing caiiillo. A lui uili nilgai extinguish It. Hla anxious, loving wife, ecarcely dnrltig to breathe, was allting watchfully watch-fully l.y hla he. Mde. She waa uullo alone, for her aervanta. emanated by long and coiiainnt wutchlng. had left her to seek a brief n for their wenry finnim. It was pant midnight: the door of the chamber w.n open for nil. In the h'II Iiuxk of t ie night alio heard a window c.liltlointy opened downstairs, '.mi Hhe .tar, .! not inovo last she should nwak. Ii. r bust ln,l from that 11!,. .-uii!,: ,.,.,, tlll "be llateued. Iu without ml, in, her cyea from the slecpm,; Inuilul. She heard cautiously approaching footsteps on tho alalia they drew nearer and nearer; near-er; still aho moved not ludood be scarcely breathed, ao Intense, waa bor anxiety. Thero waa a pause of a moment lo which no sound wua heard; then a liinn with hla face disguised atole quietly Into the room and confronted the patient watcher nt the bedside. Bho saw her husband's danger that wua ull she thought of. This man was a burglar. Anticipating the design of thu daring Intruder, she pointed to her hiisluiiid, and, pressing her finger upon her Hps to Implore silence, held out to the robber her purso and hor koya. The man. with a revolver In hla hand, gured upon her lu alienee. To her great ainii 'eiiient he took neither puree nor kea, but. placing his weapon In his po.-h.M. went noiselessly out of the loom. Whether he was tarrtfled or rhariiio.l by the murage displayed hjr the deioii-l wife cannot be known. He lott even more silently than he had come, departing without robbing a louse sarciiiicl by ucu etrotigth of affection. |