A CASE FOR COMPROMISE.

Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 647, 9 July 1892, Page 5

A CASE FOR COMPROMISE.

As she lay trembling in the darkness she was just as We thero wero burglars iv the diningroom down stairs as that sho was soared pretty nearly out of her wita. "John !" she gaapod. He paused in tho third quarter of a snore' and awoke with a start. •■Wha-whatcher want p" ho crossly demanded. - Placing her pallid lips close to his ear bb» whispered a single word. "Burglars!" A tremor might have heen observed to tubthrough his frame. He did not rise, however, "John!" "My — my dear. ■' " Ain't you going down?" " I think not." At the moment a gentlo eliukiug of sirvcn> waro was plainly to be heard. "John." The answer was quite inarticulate. " Haven't you always said that it woulo go hard with a burglar who had the nerve t» ! break into your house ?" " Huh." " Havon't you insisted that if he eßcopea without being chewed up he would be very fortunate '<" It beemed as if a glass or two must have Deea iwept off the dining-room table below. " Alice." There was absolutely no reply. "I've beeu thinking, Alice, siuco you wote me." "Indeed?" "It just occurs to me, my love, that my Me insurance policy expired to-day." Tho door from the dining-room into the front hall was heard to creak on its hinge*. "Alice, Ican'tbeartothiukofleavingyoute strugglo alone in the world." To judge from tho sound, various articles were being placed in a saob, presumably for facility in transportation. ' ' My love, lam convinced that this isa caselor compromise. If those people stop right wßem thoy are and go quietly away now, T am disposed to be lenient," Very distinctly they heard the frontdoor open and close, after which stealthy footsteps sounded from the street. "They've got everything," she moased, "everything.'^ "They would certainly hare gotinto tronWe," he declared decisively, " if they hadn't stopped right where they were." To liia friends next day be wondered bow 'thieves could get away with 30 much plunder and not ftvaken a single member of the- f&*mi>T#-