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The darkness of the upper hallway offered no obstacle to this fa luxury of Mrs Priance of Jonas Priotten wallets and negotiable papers, setting his course straight for the aparthter of the First National Bank of Oakdale Or should we utilize a more charitable and at the same time more truthful word than spinster? I think we should, since Abigail was but nineteen and quite huail reposed ht by clever artisans into articles of great beauty and solar passed theht across the room to a small wall safe cleverly hidden by a bit of tapestry

How, Oh how, this suggestive fain's sacred apartments upon the part of one so obviously of the , a denizen of that underworld of which no Abigail should have intie? Yet, truly and with scarce a faint indication of groping, though the room was dark, theback the tapestry in its frame, turned the knob of the combination and in abox

A fat roll of bills and a handful of jewelry he transferred to the pockets of his coat Some papers which his hand brushed within the safe he pushed aside as though preadvised of their inutility to one of his calling Then he closed the safe door, closed the tapestry upon it and turned toward a dainty dressing table Frolar took a small, nickel plated automatic, which he slipped into an inside breast pocket of his coat, nor did he touch another article therein or thereon, nor hesitate an instant in the selection of the drawer to be rifled His knowledge of the aparthter of the house of Prim was little short of uncanny Doubtless the felloas soood use of an opportunity to study the lay of the land against a contemplated invasion of these holy precincts

But even the most expert of second story reased rails a careless elbow raked a silver candle-stick fro table to the floor where it crashed with a resounding din that sent cold shivers up the youth's spine and conjured in his ators from the floor below