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Quite unexpectedly he lost his balance, the table tipped, he was thrown still farther over toward it, and all in the flash of an eye tramp, table, and family Bible crashed to the floor

With a little cry of alarather up the Holy Book, in her haste forgetting the shotgun and leaving it behind her leaning against the arm of a chair

Almost simultaneously the two trae book had fallen upon its back, open; and as several of the leaves turned over before co to rest their eyes ide at as revealed between

United States currency in denoly inserted between the leaves of the Bible The tramp who lay on the floor, as yet too surprised to attempt to rise, rolled over and seized the book as a football player seizes the pigskin after a fu out his elbows as a further protection to the invaluable thing

At the first cry of the wo, and bounded into the roo--a un stood almost within thethe fellow's intentions the dog wheeled from the tra for the other ragged scoundrel

Theroar The dog collapsed to the floor, his chest torn out Now the woan to scream for help; but in an instant both the tra her to silence

One of the a moment later with a piece of clothesline, while the other sat astride the victiers closed about her throat Once he released his hold and she screaed Then the two commenced to rifle the Bible

Eleven hundred dollars in bills were hidden there, because the wos of a lifetiained consciousness, she saw the last of their little hoard transferred to the pockets of the tramps, and when they had finished they de that she ht reply

She told theed therowled one of the men, "an' youse had better pass it over, or we'll find a way to make youse"