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IN THE
DEAD OF
NIGHT
By EDGAR W. COOLEY
( by Short Story Pub. Co.)
A burglar goes to the trouble
of blowing a "burglar-proof" safe
and Is then satisfied to go on hla
way with a woman's picture In
stead of the bank funds.
AS HE stepped out of the alley
into the street, it began to
rain dismally. This pleased
him, for It added to the black
ness of the night and had a tendency
to drive away any late pedestrian.
He was not hampered by luggage.
Such tools as he needed a bar of
soap, an airpump, a can of nitro
glycerin, some fuse, a jimmy, a dark
lantern, a revolver he carried in his
pockets, and, under his coat, a folded
grain sack.
Without pausing, without hesitating,
he glanced searchingly up and down
the street. A smoking oil lamp stood
upon a post on the corner of the
main street of the village, Its feeble
rays struggling Ineffectively In the
mist. No living creature was stirring;
no other glimmer visible.
A few strides took him to the side
window of a building. The sill was
on a level with his head. He tried
to raise the sash, but, as he had ex
pected. It was fastened. So he took
the Jimmy from his pocket, and. slip
ping Its thin edge under the frame,
threw all his weight suddenly upon
the handle.
With a report like that of a pistol,
the lock snapped. For five minutes,
perhaps, the burglar crouched In the
shadows under the window, watching,
listening. But not n sound, save the
patter of the rain In the gutter, did
he hear; not n moving object did he
see.
Then carefully, noiselessly, he pushed
up the sash and climbed in. He was
In total darkness, but Jcnew exactly
where he stood. He could have drawn
an accurate, detailed plan of the In
terior of the building knew precise
ly how many feet it was from the
window to the safe; from the safe
to the front doors ; from the window
to his car, standing hi the alley at
the rear.
So, although he could afiot see his
hand before him. he turned confident
ly to his left and walked six paces.
Then he circled to his right around
the end of the counter, and took four
steps more. Pausing, he reached out
his hand and touched the safe.
The burglar moved his hand glee
fully over the door and laughed. The
bank was not provided with a vault. A
good vault costs us much as a build
ing, and this was a small bunk In a
country town. So the funds were
entrusted to the protection of this
"burglar-proof" safe. He wondered
what the citizens would say about
"burglar-prnof" safes while gathering
up the pieces !
Without losing a moment, he filled
the cracks around the door of the
safe with snap, leaving one small open
ing. To this opening he attached his
pump and exhausted the air on the
Inside.
Closing the opening, he cut a piece
off the bar of sonp, and, rolling It
between bis palms and molding It
with his fingers, soon fashioned it
Into the shape of a small cup. This
he fastened at the bottom of tfce door
and filled with nitroglycerin. Then
he attached a fuse.
Ten feet from the sufe, a door
opened into the rear office of the
bank, and in this room the safe-breaker
had planned to seek refuge while
the explosive was doing Its work. Not
desiring to tarry unnecessarily In close
proximity to a charge of nitroglycerin
about to explode, he concluded, be
fore lighting the fuse, to satisfy him
self that the door of this Inner room
was not locked or bolted.
He turned the knob, the door opened
readily, and he took one step across
the threshold. Then he paused.
In the intense darkness he could not
see nn object; in the perfect silence
he could not hear n sound.
But 'something premonition, In
stinct, some Indefinable sixth sense
something sent a chill through him,
and he trembled as one who sudden
ly becomes conscious of the presence
of unseen spirits. Without the power
to move, he stood, staring Into the
darkness, the perspiration standing in
Icy drops upon his forehead.
With the desperation that fear in
spires, he drew his dark-lantern,
slipped back the slide, and threw the
searching glare around the room, light
ing first the most distant corner. Slow
ly he moved the lantern, bringing the
round spot of brilliant light toward
him across the carpet. Suddenly he
uttered a low cry and shrank back
as the light fell fiercely upon an ob
ject almost at his feet.
So near that by stooping the burglar
could have touched him, n dead man
lay, his waxen face and sightless eyes
turned upwards! The carpet where his
head and shoulders rested, gleamed
sArlet with his blood; the nerveless
fingers of his right hand clasped a
pistol ; In the center of hit forehead
was a ghastly wound.
With a strange weakness to his
knees the burglar bnt over the dead
man, brushed back his matted hair
took the pistol gently from his fingers
end folded his han ls across his breast.
In the corpse the cracksman recog
nixed Frazer. the bank cashier.
On the desk beside him was the
following letter, unsealed :
"Being no longer able to con
ceal my Shortage, to hide the fact
that the safe does not contain the
amount of money that it should,
and being a coward, I have chosen
a coward's method of paying ray
debt. I do not ask for pity. I
only ask compassion for my wife."
For a moment the burglar stood un
decided, the letter In his hand. Sud
denly, breaking the impressive silence,
came the loud ringing of a telephone
bell. Instantly, involuntarily, the
burglar closed the lantern slide,
gripped his pistol and crouched be
hind the desk. Again the bell rang,
and mechanically he arose and walked
to the telephone. Standing with one
foot on each side of the dead cashier,
he took down the receiver.
"Hello," he said, imitating the voice
of one whose eyes he could feel, but
could not see. He was answered by
a womun.
"Oh, Henry !" she cried, "I have Just
awakened from such a vivid, such an
awful dream. I know It Is silly, but
It frightened me. I dreamed that you
were in trouble, In disgrace. And then
I awoke and found you had not re
turned home. Oh, Henry, what Is keep
ing you so late? Come home at once,
will you not, dear?"
"Yes," the burglar replied, as one In
a daze.
"Do," she continued, and there was
nnxlety In her voice. "I am so glad,
so glad it was only a dream. I would
rather see you dead than dishonored,
Henry dear."
The cracksman crept buck to the
desk and seated himself in the dead
man's chair, the woman's voice still
ringing in his ears.
That voice! It haunted him like a
memory of long ago, like an echo of
the days of childhood. It stirred, It
thrilled him: It aroused that old mad
love of his boyhood. Whose voice was
it? Undoubtedly the wife of that dead
coward lying at his feet. But who
had she been before before she mar
ried him?
That voice! Could it be Martha's?
Years and years ago, when they were
schoolmates, he had loved Murtha,
worshiping her from afar, for she was
a dweller on the avenue, and he a
child of the tenements. A vast social
gulf divided them, but he loved her
In secret, knowing that he scarcely en
tered her thoughts.
Once he had thrashed a boy for
teasing her, and she had smiled at
him. He had never forgotten that
smile. That was years and years ago,
but, though she had long since passed
out of his life, he had never loved
another. And now was that voice
Indeed the voice of Martha?
Again the burglar deliberately
opened the side of his lantern and
turned the gleam upon the desk. Di
rectly in front of him he saw a pic
ture in the silver frame. It was a pho
tograph of a woman not a particu
larly handsome woman but glorified
by a dazzling smile and he recog
nized flint smile !
From that face he turned reluc
tantly nt last to gaze with scorn at
the cold features of the man lying
there with the scarlet mark of sin
upon his brow. He felt no pity now
nothing but contempt but Martha's
words, "I would rather see you dead
than dishonored," rang In his ears.
With a smile he placed the letter
the contemptible letter In his pocket,
picked up Krazer's pistol, replaced the
empty shell with n loaded cartridge,
and laid the weapon In a drawer.
Then he tore the collar of the cashier's
coat, ripped one sleeve half Its length,
and overturned the chairs and scat
tered them about.
It was nearly daybreak. In a fe
moments the gray would be creeping
up the eastern sky.
Quickly the burglar blew the safe
and scattered the gold and silver and
banknotes upon the floor. "Now," he
said, to himself, "they will find the
bank broken, the safe looted, the
cashier murdered!" Leaving his soap
and dark lantern by the shattered
safe, he fled, and two things only did
he take the cashier's letter and the
photograph In the silver frame.
Through the rain and darkness he
drove away, penniless but not unhap
py. A woman's smiling face seemed
to thank him. He laughed aloud as
he fled through the gray of morning,
thinking of a schoolgirl smiling at a
ragged urchin.
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Jlmmle Jones failed to pass In his
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President of the United States Is, nor
could be name his governor, senator
and representative In congress. But
Jlmmle knows who led both the
American and Nationnl leagues In bat
ting averages last year.
He ca,n recognize the pictures of 45
movie stars.
He can pick as good an All-American
team as Walter Camp, and give rea
sons. He knows the call letters tif every
Important broadcasting station In the
L'nlted States.
He can give you the name of prac
tically any car when he sees It coming
a block away.
And yet
Some folks call Jlmmle an igno
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There are now In the United States
465,000 miles of surfaced highways.
Every ten years the total, including
country roads, will be around 800,IMJ
miles, which will constitute a niar
velous basic system excelling that of
any nation in the world.
We are making rapid progress not
only in road building, but also in mir
understanding of highway financing,
taxation and use. It is worth while to
realize the fundamental significance
of all this activity which in the final
analysis is simply an Investment in
neighborllness.
On the political and social side.
Delghborlinesi means mutual under
standing and the ability to live to
gether In harmony. It means that the
West knows the South and appreciates
Its problems, and vice versa, writes
Roy D. Chapln, chairman of the high
way committee of the National Auto
mohiie Chamber of Cotutneive.
On the commercial side, nelgllborll
ness means ready facilities for (lis
tribution, ease of travel. In hort,
that the distant point can be readied
as well as the nearby point.
We are In a highly fortunate posi
tion lu that this country has a grid
Iron of rail lines. This gridiron
should be maintained, operated, en
couraged on a sound basis. Given lids
long-haul transportation equipment,
the highway system becomes doubly
serviceable because It means that
every community of 5,000 population
is linked not only with a motor-travel
system, but is likewise within rapid
transit reach of the long-distance rail
road service.
It is recognized that the motor-car
user gets a more lmmedlute and more
definite return from improved high
ways than any other class of the com
munity. The burden of federal expenditure
for highways has not, howeer, fallen
on the general taxpayer at all as yet.
The reason for the federal govern
ment entering into highway construc
tion, moreover, is given in President
Coolldge's message to congress of De
cember C, 19J3, in which he said:
"No expenditure of public money
contributes so much to the national
wealth as for building good roads."
In view of the enonnoi'l extent of
this country, totaling 3,000,000 square
miles, there Is no other public work
which is more deserving of our atten
tion.
Pre-lndian Relic
A remarkable stone wall built in
the form of a fortress on the top of
a Georgia mountain south of Lookout
mountain, Tennessee. Is believed to be
nt pre-Ind!an origin, as the Cherokee
Indians told the first white settlers
that a strange white race were
In this vicinity before them, saya the
Dearborn Independent. A walled up
spring Is near the opening gate
There la not a civil engineer In Amer
ica who could Improve on its con
struction as a fortress defense. Phil
adelphia Bulletin.
Portland, Oregon.
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New California Road Is
Now Open to All Traffic
Easterners motoring to California hy
the southern route can now save con
slderable time through use of the
newly improved highway between
Yuma and the Imperial valley, which
la now open.
The trip of 05 miles over the sand
dunes between Yuma and El Centra,
Instead of requiring 12 hours in rWu
days to negotiate, and nt times Men
longer, now can be made reasonably
In a couple of hours. The new artery,
Including 15 miles of graveled road and
21 miles of asphalt, is a decided) Im
provement over the old desert road
that stretched across the sand hills.
This work has been consistently
ureed bv the Automobile Club of
Southern California, which lending
motor orgtinlzution is highly (ratified
at being able to tell tourists that this
southern route 'to the state line at Inst
has been placed on a par with the
trunk lines of the state.
It Is felt that this Improvement ll
oue that will uphold the Ntnlenien
that the saving In cost of operation
to motor vehicle users who travel over
nn hnoroved highway Is more than
enough to maintain the highway, Thir
conclusion was announced by the Na
tional Automobile Chanjber of COW
merce following Investigations mad ll
North Carolina and other states lu
connection with the argument that the
motor vehicle should pay for ail high
way maintenance.
Tax in Many States
Thirty-seven of the forty eight
states and the DUtrtCt of Columbia
start 10U5 with a gasoline tax In for
In aeverul states the tux Is 1 cent, Hi
18 states and the District of CoiOtnl
It Is 2 cents In twu it Is i!Vi cents, in
nine It la 3 cents and In one sluie It
Is 4 cents. Of the remuinlng 11 Hates,
W.k. ..nsin Minnesota. Illinois, Iowa
and New Jersey, us well as Kansas,
huve gusollne tux measures under ft
alilenitlon. It Is m-ohnhle that ue sl
of these meusures will be enucted lot
laws. Massachusetts Is the only slate
that has definitely turned down I ga
tax measure by popular vote anil It Is
generally believed that the reason C
this defeat la to be found In tie- K
portioniuent of funds proposed rather
than In the fact thut it wus u gusoline
tux.
To Relieve Traffic Jam
The first step toward duul highway
to lessen trutllc congestion, purtlall
due to heavy movement of trucks, niu
he taken by Massachusetts, for tb
state department of public works h
planning a 2,000,000 highway para)
lellng the state highway from BoatiM
to Worcester. The new highway Is
to follow closely the present Won-es
ter turnpike. A legislative appaoprta
tion will be necessary before work on
this much needed improvement CM It
inaugurated.
Turquoise's Odd Use.
Fourteenth-century authority
states that turquoise protected horses
from the ill effects resulting from
drinking cold water when tlioy were
overheated. It is said that tho Turks
often attached these precious stones
to the bridles and frontlets of Uiei
horses as amulets.
Honor for "Unknown"
The decorations awarded the Un
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France; Legion of Honor, France;
gold medal for bravery, Italy; Vir
tutea Militara, Rumania; war crosses,
Czechoslovakia; Vlrtuti Milltari, Po
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United States.
Honesty.
Honesty does not merely mean that
you will not lie with your lips or take
somebody's money or property. It also
means that you will do your very best
In everything, do every iasn to a com
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Lute and Guitar.
The lute is a Stringed mUatcal in
strument of the guitar family. Tho
formal difference between a luto and
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which in the lute is pear-shaped and
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Likely.
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a nickel for the heathen, and he went
und gavo it to his father. Ho must
have overheard a broakfast-table chat.
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World's Largest Picture.
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Famous Greek Statue.
Hermes, one of tho masterpieces of
Praxiteles, the ancient (ireek nculptor,
was found May 8, 1877, at Olympla.
It Is now preserved In tho museum
there. The figure of tho youthful god
is shown as the pgetector of his baby
brother, Uionysius. The statue was
mude abojit 250 B. C.
Causes for Gratitude.
The peoplo to whom wo arc the
most grateful are thoso who help
raise our standards, who awaken in
us good Impulses, who enrich us spir-
Lltually and morally, and who make uh
reaolve to express ourselves In great
er service to others. Grit.
Papuan Mourning Customs.
In l'apua, widows mourn for a de
ceased husband for more than a year,
and It Is a custom for them to remove
all i heir clothes and cover themselves
with white pipe-clay. The costume
consists of a grasB skirt.
Gems Used as Playthings.
The first largo diamond discovered
in South Africa is said to have boon
Found in I he leather bag of a sorcerer.
Several authorities state that in the
early days in South Africa highly valu
able diamonds were frequently the
plaything of the Iloer children.
In an Age Benighted.
Jam and Jellies were not known
until the KiKhl'-enlh century, when
virtues unknown today were ascribed
lo them, Jelly being recommended for
a sore throat and Jam advised for a
eough.
Safe Anchors.
Hope and patience arc two sover
eign remedies for all the surest ro
DOtals, the loftest cushions to lean
on in adversity.
Claimed Prophetic Gift.
Joanna Southcote, a domestic ser
vant, aroused all Knglaml about 1814,
with lo r pretended supernatural gifts
and lo r claim to bo tho woman men
tioned in Apocalypse, chapter 1U. She
gained over 100,000 follower!,
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