A Woman's Wit

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What would you do if you found a burglar in your house? Here is one way as told by pictures. Mrs. Lee returns from the theater to discover that someone has entered her house; she sees a man's face in the mirror of her dressing table. Composing herself as much as possible, she continues to remove her jewels, laying them on the table. Then she makes an excuse to leave the room and goes to the library where she telephones to the police. Returning to her room, she starts to open the safe in which she keeps her jewels, but hesitates and sits down in a chair as though tired, in order to gain time. Then she hears the bell of the police patrol and again starts to open the safe. As she gets it open and takes out her jewel case the burglar grabs her by the throat and chokes her into insensibility. But she comes to in time to see the thief in the corner covered by the revolvers of two policemen. Her jewels are restored and the burglar taken away. The story is worked out carefully in every detail and shows what a woman of nerve might do under such circumstances.