THE OMAITA ILLUSTRATED BEE. Mnr 2S, 100G. Raffles Story Raffles Story Raffles Story enjoy more. The good fellow snort-d mo Oat of the bank and wu null snoring wh-n I again Blood and listened under Ills open window. "Why did I leave tho bank first? To catch and saddle the n.are and tether her !n a clump of trees close by to have the tnrans of escape nice and handy before I went to work. 1 have otten wondered at the Instinctive wisdom of the precau tion. Unconsciously I was acting on what has been one of my guiding princi ples ever since. Pains and patience were required I had to get my saddle without waking the man, and I was not used to catching horses In a horse paddock. Then I distrusted the poor mare, and went back to the stables for a hatful of oats, which I left with her In the clump, hat and all. There was a dog, too, to reckon with (our very worst enemy, Bunny); but I had been 'cute enough to make Immense friends with him during the evening, and he wagged his tall, not only when I came downstairs, but f hen I reappeared at the back door. "As the sol-distant new manager, 1 had been able, in the most ordinary course, to pump poor Ewbank about anything and everything Connected with the working oC the bank, especially In those twenty last Invaluable minutes before turning In. And I had made a very natural point of asking him where he kept, and would recommend me to keep, the keys at night. Of course 1 thought he would take them with him to his room; but no such thing; he had a dodge worth two of that. What It was doesn't much matter, but no outsider would have found those keys In a month of Bun days. "I, of course, had them In a few seconds, and In a few more I was In the strong room Itself. I forgot to say that the moon had risen and was letting quite a lot of light Into the bank. I had, however, brought a bit of candle with me from my room, and In the strong-room, which was down some narrow stairs behind the coun ter 10 the banking chamber, I had no hesi tation In lighting ic. There was no window down there, and, though I could no longer hear old Ewbank snoring, I had not the lightest reason to anticipate disturbance from that quarter. I did think of locking myself In while I was at work, but thank goodness the Iron door had no keyhole on the Inside. "Well, there were heaps of gold In tho safe, but I only took what I needed and could comfortably carry, not much more than a couple of hundred altogether. Not a note would I touch, and my native caution came out also In the way 1 divided the sovereigns between all my pockets, and packed them up so that I shouln't be like tho old woman of Banbury Cross. Well, you think me too cautious still, but I was Insanely cautious then. And so It was that. Just as I was ready to go, whereas I might have been somo ten minutes, there came a violent knocking at the outer door. "BUnny, it was the outer door of the banking chamber! My candle must have been Been! And there I stood, with the grease running hot over my fingers, In that brick grave of a strong-room! "There was only one thing to be done. I must trust to the sound Bleeping of Ewbank iipstalrs, open the door myself, knock the visitor down or shoot him with the revolver I had been chump, enough to buy before leaving Melbourne, and make a dash for that clump of trees and the doctor's mare. My mind was made up In an Instant, and I was at tho top of the strong-room stairs, the knocking still continuing, when a second sound drove me back. It was the sound of bare f?ct coming along a corridor. ."My narrow stair was stone. I tumbled down It with little noise, and had only to push open the Iron door, for I had left the keys In the safe. As I did so I heard a handle turn overhead and thanked my gods that I hut every door behind me. You see, old chap, one's caution doesn't always let one In. " 'Who's that knocking?1 said Ewbank up above. "I could not make out the answer, but It sounded to me like the Irrelevant suppli cation of a sjnt man. What I did hear plainly was the cocking of the bank re volver before the bolts were shot back; then a tottering step, a hard, short, shal low breaching, and Ewbank's voice In horror: " 'My Ood! Oood 1ord! What's hap pened to you? You're bleeding like a pig!' " 'Not now,' came with a grateful sort of sigh. " 'But you have been! What's done iW " 'Bushrangers.' , " 'Down the road? " "i'hta and Whittlesear-tied to a tree cock shots left me bleed to death' "The weak voice failed and the bare feet bolted. How was my time if the poor devil had fainted. But I could aot be sure, and there I crouched down below In the dark at the half shut Iron door not less spellbound than Imprisoned. It was Just as well, for Ewbank wasn't gone a minute. 'Lirlnk this,' I beard him say, and, when the other spoke . again, hla voice was stronger. , " 'Now I begin to feel alive' " Don't talk." " It does me good. You don't know what It was ell those miles alone, one an hour, at the outside. I never thought I should come through. You must let me tell you in case I don't.' ' 'Well, have another sip.' " Thank you I said bushrangers; of course, there are no such things nowa days.' " 'What were they, then?' " 'Bank thieves; the one that had the pot shots was the very brute I drove out of the bank at C'oburg with a bullet In him!' " "I knew it." "Of course you did, Bunny; so did I, down in that strong room; but old Ewbank didn't, and I thought he was never going to speak again. " 'You're delirious,' he says at last. 'Who In blazos do you think you are?' " The new manager.' " 'The new manager's In bed and asleep upstairs,!' , ' 'When did he arrive?' " This evening.' " 'Call himself Raffles?' 'Yes.' " 'Well, I'm d d!' whispered the real man. I thought (t was Just revenge, but now I see what It was. My dear sir, the man upstairs Is an Imposter If he's up- Btalrs still! He must be one of the gang. He's going to rob the bank if he hasn't done so already I' ' " 'If he hasn't done so already, muttered ' Ewbank after him; 'If he's upstairs still! By God, if he Is I'm sorry for him!' "His tone was quiet enough, but about the nastiest I ever heard. I tell you. Bunny, I was glad Id brought that re volver. It looked as though It must be mine against his, muzzle to muszle. " 'Better have a look down here first,' said the new manager. " 'While he gets through his window? No, no, he's not down here.' " 'It's easy to have a look.' "Bunny, If you ask me what was the most thrilling moment of my infamous ca reer, I say It was that moment. There I stood at the bottom of those narrow stone stairs, inside the strong room, with the door a good foot open, and I didn't know whether it would creak or not. The light was coming nearer and I didn't know! I had to chance it. And It didn't creak a bit; It was far too solid and well hung; and I couldn't have banged It If I tried. It was too heavy; and It fitted so closfe that I felt and heard the air squeeze out In my face. Every shred of light went out, ex cept the streak underneath, and It bright ened. How I blessed that door! " 'No, he's not down there,' I heard as though through cotton-wool; then the streak went out, too, and In a few seconds I ventured to open once more, and was In time to hear them creeping to my room. "Well, now, there was not a fifth of a second to be lost; but I'm proud to say I came up those stairs on my toes and lingers, ond out of that hnnk (they'd gone and left the door open; Just as gingerly as though my time "had been my own. I didn't even forget to put on the hat the doctor's mare was eating her oats out of, as well as she could with a bit. or it alone would have landed me. I didn't even gallop away, but Just Jogged off quietly in the thick dust at the side of the road (though I own my heart was galloping), and thanked my stars the bank was at that end of the township In which I really hadn't Bet foot. The very last thing I heard was the two managers raining Cain and the coachman. And now. Bunny " He stood up and stretched himself, with a smile that ended (n a yawn. The black windows had faded through every shade of Indigo; they now framed their opposite neighbors, stark and livid in the dawn; and the gas seemed turned to nothing In the globes. "But that's not all?" I cried. "I'm sorry to say It Is," said Raffles, apologetically. "The thing should have ended with an exciting chase, I know, but somehow It didn't. I suppose they thought I had got no end of a start; then they had made up their minds that I belonged to the gang, which was not so many miles away, and one of them had got as much us he could carry from that gang as It was. But I wasn't to know all that, and I'm bound to say there was plenty of excite ment left for me. Lord, how I made that poor brute travel when I got among the trees! Though we must have made It over fifty miles from Melbourne, we had done It at snail's pace, and those stolen oats had brisked the old girl up to such a pitch that she fairly bolted when she felt her nose turned south. By Jove, it was no Joke, In and out among those trees and under branches with your face In the mane! I told you about the forest of dead gums? It looked perfectly ghostly in the moonlight. And I found It as still as I had left It so still that I pulled up there, my first halt, and lay with my ear to the ground for two or three minutes. But I heard nothing not a thing but the mares' bellow and my own heart. I'm sorry, Bunny, but if ever you write my memoirs, you won't have any difficulty In working up that chase. Play those dead gum trees for all they're worth, and let the bullets fly like hall. I'll turnaround in my saddle to see Ewbank coming up hell-U-leather In his white suit, and I'll duly paint it red. Do It In the1 third person, and they won't know how It's going to end." "But I don't know myself," I complained. "Did the mare carry you all the way back to Melbourne?" "Every rod, pole or perch. I had her well seen to at our hotel and returned her to the doctor In the evening. He was tre mendously tickled to hear I had been bushed. Next morning he brought me the paper to show me what I had escaped at Yea." "Without suspecting anything?" "Ah,V said Raffles as he put out the gas, "that's a point on which I've never made up my mind. The inare and her color, was a coincidence luckily she was only a bay and I fancy the condition of the beast must have told a tale. The doctor's man ner was certainly different. I'm inclined to think he suspected something, though not tl.e right thing. I wasn't expecting hlro, and I fear my appearance may have increased hlseusplclons." I asked him why. "I used to have rather a heavy mus tache," said Raffles, "but I lost it the day after I lost my Innocence." . ,. (End of Third Story ) ,' . Curious and Romantic Capers of Cupid m College Girls Wed. HE University of Michigan has bad 2,000 girl graduates - since 1870, when the first coed was admitted to the college. Data collected by Helen L. Million, a Michigan graduate of 1S87, shows that these college girls hsve stood more than three times the chance of a long life which the average woman has. The girl graduates for the first thirty years of Michigan's coeducational venture are used In this comparison. They are matched against the twelfth census figures. Only the first thirty years of graduates were considered because the more recent girls are not yet within the age limits of this particular census death rate for women. Out of the first 1,184 girls to leave Michigan only sixty-five have died. The census death rate for womankind In gen eral for the same period of time is 228 out Of every 1,000. , Miss Million says that failure -to marry cannot be claimed as a reason for the un usual health of these college women. For In this first thirty years half of the girls hsve marrted. In the marriage question It Is found that college women are on the "eligible" list much longer than the home bred girl. A comparison of the wedding days of the fortunate half of the first 1,000 Michigan girls shows that nearly half of those married waited a few years after graduation before falling In love. The fig ures seem to Indicate that a college woman does not become an "old maid" until at least ten years after graduation. Previous te this she la a "bachelor girl," and dan gerous to unwedded men. Help Bla Daughter to Rlop. A pretty daughter's confiding father In nocently facilitated her elopement in In dependence, Mo. Informed that the young couple wished to attend a matinee in Kan sas City, he kindly drove, them to the depot. Two hours luter they were man and Wife. John H. Lamp. Jr., son of John H. Lempe of the Drumm Live Stock Commis sion company, and Mlas Frances Mary Hughes, daughter of Melvln Hughes, a well-to-do farmer and- stockman of Inde pendence, were the young folk. They were married' by Rev. George H. Combs at his heme, VXX East Sixth street. Mr. Itmpe was tl years of age and Miss Hughes was It. The young woman's parents knew nothing of the marriage until late. Well! Well! they exclaimed In chorus. 'This Is a great surprise, but it seems too late to express any regrets." .The Hughes home is about one and one half miles east of Independence on the Lexington road. Mr. Lampe called upon Miss Hughes the other night and was o pleasantly entertained thct he missed the last car for Kansas City. He spent the night at the Hughes home and "visited with the folks" during the morn ing. As the noon hour approached he went to Mr. Hughes and said: "I'd like to take Mary' to the matinee. X see you have the rig hitched up; will you drive us to the car?" Mr. Hughes was glad to be of service. Several hours luter he was considerably surprised to learn that his kind offices had furthered an elopement. "Confound that boy!" said Mr. Hughes when he learnt) he had a son-in-law. "tie told me he wanted to take Mary Fanny to the matinee, because he was going away In a few days to his father's ranch In Glenwood county, Kansas." ' The bride Is extremely pretty and a popular member of Independence society. Her father Is a Kentucklan and a son of the late Merrlt Hughes, a pioneer ot Jack son county. Her mother was a Kentucky belle and famous for her beauty. . Mr. and Mrs. Lampe returned to the bride's home, told what had happened, were forgiven and remained at the house. It was said there that they probably would remain with the H,ugheses several dacs. Reviving Aaclent Wedding Customs. Several ancient wedding customs, prac ticed by the Prussian royal family two cen turies ago and earlier, wtll be revived at the festivities In honor of the marriage of Crown Prince Frederick William and the Duchess Cecilia of Mecklanburg-Schwerin, June I. One of these is (he so-called court at cards, in which the bride and bridegroom, playing cards with the king and receive the congratulations of the The emperor, empress, crown prince and crown princess will sit at a regular card table In the white hall of the palace, with card tables for other members of the royal family right and left of the emperor's table. Behind each distinguished person age will stand his or her suite, and the In vited guests will mass In front of the card tables, bow deeply, and then take up posi tions right and left, making room for similar groups. Another ancient ceremony will be a dance by torchlight, dating from the early Teu tonlo times. After the bride and bridegroom have left tbe wedding party the" chtef lady In waiting will give each of the guests a garter cf silk or velvet, with the bride's monogram and the date in gold letters. Whether the Grand Duchess Anastasia, mother of the bride, will attend the wed ding seems to be still undecided. Asser tions that she will or that she will not do so have followed each ither regularly slnoe the crown prince's 'betrothal was announced. while queen, court. A Filipino Wedding. "A, wedding In the Philippines is like a scene from a comic opera," writes Minna Irving In Llpplncott's magaslne. "I have In mind one that took placo at Cagayan, Island of Mindanao, In a picturesque house curtained with Jasmine and inhab ited by three charming sisters. The bride the eldest w-s a soft-eyed, plump beauty, with a skin like brown velvet. Her white, muslin gown would have passed muster In New York, and she wore a veil of costly and delicate pina gauze which would have turned an American bride-elect green with envy. Several necklaces were hung around her neck, while bangles loaded her 'wrists, and her fingers were stiff with gold and sliver rings. The roads were In a deplor able state, being knee-deep In mud in places, and many of the guests wore top boots. They began arriving early In thu morning, on horseback, on bicycles and driving the famous trotting bulls of the country, or the rough-coated Island ponies hitched to carts or ancient victorias. The majority came on foot, though, and every body was welcome. Long tables made of planks on empty barrels and guiltless of linen were spread under the trees in the front yard, as It was too hot to eat la- doors, also the house was not nearly large enough to accommodate the guests. Di rectly over the bride's table a magnificent fire tree (arbol de fuego) dropped ltB flam lng blossoms. Every kind of native dish was there and many' Imported from the United States by way of Manila, but the chief delicacy was considered to be canned corned beef, which occupied the place of honor usually accorded the wedding cake In other countries, and was flanked by onion omelet and ham and eggs. Other dishes were chicken fried In cocoanut oil. dried fish made In a kind of stew with rice potatoes and red pepper enough to raise It to the rank of a curry. Caribou steaks, Jam, honey, various kinds of sweet oake. cocoanuts In the shell, and wine much wine completed the menu. While the feast was In progress the hens scratched indus triously under the tables and a bold rooster flew up among the plates, pecked at a few stray crumbs, and crowed until driven off by Antolne, the bride's brother. The mar riage was performed by a very fat priest, who wore a suit of bright red calico under Ms flowing robes, the wind blowing through open doors and windows lifting his vest ments and revealing the Incongruous at tire beneath. The ceremony was followed by the supper, and that In turn by dan cing, the music being furnished by a harp and piano." Belated Wedding of School Chums, A marriage under peculiar circumstances was solemnised at Roanoke, Va., recently. Mrs. Black was the bride, and Thomas H, Nance of Indian Territory the bridegroom. The couple were schoolmates, and began a courtship In their childhood days, but parental objections prevented an early mar riage and the young people drifted apart and In time formed other ties. Each entered matrimonial alliances twice before, the bridegroom losing two wives and the bride two husbands. Mr. Nance finally drifted west and located In Indian Territory, where he became well- to-do. Two months ago, although having reached three score and eleven years, he had a longing desire to return to his native heath and ascertain If his sweetheart of hia youth was still living. Ha Immediately started the long drive of 1,700 miles In a buggy, the trip requiring seven weeks. He found Mrs. Black living and comfort able In her splendid home. He lost no time In making his identity known, and found the widow's heart responsive, though she Is now Hi. 1 Long Hide to Wed. 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