Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1901 — A London Mystery Explained. [ARTICLE]

A London Mystery Explained.

A strange cry may be fitfully heard at dead of night in a street not far removed from Park Lane. A lady householder happened to have an attachment to cats, which is not all happy. The love that ought to cast out fear has exactly a contrary effect, and the lady’s heart is full of apprehensions, one of which is that the police, at this the beginning of the dead season, wring the necks of the stray cats they meet on their rounds. Hence, at intervals of the night, when she awakes, she throws open the window and shouts into the air a tentative, “I see you, you villain!” Belated pedestrians hear the adventurned exclamation, and turn startled heads upward to hear the sash brought down with a bang. Those who have gone home puzzled may not know the true inwardness of that strange noc> turnal cry.