THE BURGLAR'S LOVE-MAKING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1252, 14 October 1884, Page 3

THE BURGLAR'S LOVE-MAKING.

It has often been said that nothing save business success and money constitutes a claim to social recognition on this coast; but as, evnn with such an illustration of that fact as the Sharon trial before them, our Eastern friends can hardly understand how absolute the said rule is here, we can hardly expect the following perfectly true incident to be believed out of our own S:ate:One night not long ago, the daughter of one of our best citizens was awakened by anoiee in her roora, and upon sitting up, discovered a, man disguised in a blackmask standing; beside her bed, and calmly contemplating her features by the aid of a bull's-eye lantern. "Don't be alarmed, mb-s," he said. "I haven't t>iken an3-tllin.Gr jet." «'Bless me ']}'■ said the girl, ' " I do believe it's a burglar." " Of course it is," said the housebreaker, with an ingratiating smile, as he lit a cigarette, " and I'm proud of it." "What do you want?" demanded the young lady. i " Well 3 I did want to simple your jewellery' case," said the robber, "hut you looked'so nil-fired pr-'tty lying there 'with your uu.hurn hair—just my style—that 1 couldn't help, waking you la see if you also had dark eyes. I'm terribly fond of Ii2 f >t hair and dark eyes myself." " Well, I hare," s dd the young lady, glancing at the mirror. "But I must Took like a fright in this—ibis dress." I "On the contrary, white is becoming

to you," siii 'he of Jimmy Hope, tenderly. "By '»« way, are you engaged V " Tint's Wl!i:\'.\" s'dd tin; girl.

" No, but ;.r<- yu -honest Injun ?" " Well, yes, 1 uni—to a lawyer ; but I don't care for him so very much." "He's poor, isn't he V ( 'oh, awfully." "Exactly; L thought as much. Now, my dear girl don't you know there is nothing in this love-in-a-cottage business 1 You don't want to peg along nursing bahies in some stuffy back room for the next ten years, do you V " N-o-'n-o," murmured the girl. "Then why not let this fellow slide and take me? I'm pretty comfortably fixed. Business has been pretty good this season, and our profits are large. Our firm is now running a tunnel under a bank, and I've .trot a fourth interest. Besides, I'm Secretary of the Burglar's Protective Association. What d'yer say !" " Couldn't we go abroad next summer 1" asked the girl thoughtfully. " Why, certainly, I expect to have to. Just think over the maUer, and I'll drop in some night later in the week. I know how to get in." A'd, shouldering his kit, the secretly stepped out of the window, and went off to open a jewellery store for an engagement r:m-. And the next day the youi.ff lawyer received back his letters and photograph. —San Francisco paper.