Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1879 — A Brave Women. [ARTICLE]

A Brave Women.

▲n anxious wife sat at her husband’s bedside; his life depended upon uninterrupted sleep. It was midnight: a door was left open for air: she heard, in the stillness of the night, a window open below the stairs, ana soon after, approaching footstep*. A moment more a man with his face disguised entered the room. She instantly saw her husband’s danger, and anticipating the design of the unwelcome intruder, pointed to her husband, and pressing her fingers upon her lips to implore silence, held out to the robber her purse and her keys. To her great surprise, he took neither. Whether he was terrified or charmed by her courage and affection cannot be known. He lelt the house in perfect silence, harming nothing.