Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1903 — Beyond Endurance. [ARTICLE]

Beyond Endurance.

The slender woman faced the burly burglar’s deadly revolver without a tremor of fear, for, as is well known, the weakest are often the bravest “Tell me where the money Is hid,” he hissed, most truculently, “or I’ll fire.” “Never!” she answered determinedly, and with a marked accent on the “r.” “Kill me if you will, but I will never reveal the hiding place of my husband’s hard-earned board! Villain, do your worst!” “I will!” snarled the scoundrel, baffled for the moment, but not beaten. “Tell me instantly or I’ll drop this big, woolly caterpillar down your neck!” In three minutes more he had bagged the boodle and was splitting the midnight darkness in a northeastery direction. —Smart Set.