A Female Reporter (1909)
The managing editor of "The Daily Knocker" gets an idea, and one of a deep rich typhoid hue. In this idea he proposes to quite out-raffle the "mysterious Mr. Raffles" scheme, and at the same time to get another knock at the alleged indolent city police. Summoning Miss Flip, the society reporter, he makes the following proposition: At midnight that night she is to forcibly enter a city residence (this to prove that the Knoxville police are not on the job) and to carry off as much silver as she can, providing, of course, she isn't caught, and to write a glowing description of her adventure for the next morning's paper. Miss Flip, after a little hesitancy, agrees to try, and midnight, equipped with mask, dark-lantern and the latest things in burglars' tools, finds her outside a fashionable residence, just a little frightened and more inclined to run away than to burgle. However, she plucks up courage, and with difficulty climbs up a trellis to the window balcony, lifts the window sash and crawls in, when the first accident occurs. Her foot collides with something and a handsome jardiniere, holding a large fern, falls from its stand with a crash on the floor. With heart beating fast, she listens breathlessly and finally assures herself that the racket has not awakened the sleeping ones. She stumbles around the dark room and upsets a chair. The clamor it makes jars on her nerves like a blast of dynamite. She is about to retreat to the window when she hears footsteps on the stair in the hall outside. There is no time for escape by the window now, so she dodges behind a convenient screen and tremblingly awaits developments. John Saunders, whose house she has entered, comes into the room, a pistol held at a convenient angle and his eyes sharply seeking the intruder. He sees the screen wobbling a little and commands the thief to stand from behind it. The girl, trembling and in tears, gives up the job as a bad one and steps from behind her shelter. Saunders is agreeably surprised when he finds instead of a grim-visaged male, a most attractive, but thoroughly frightened young woman. He roars at the joke, when she tries to persuade him that she is not really a thief but that the insane editor of the "Knocker" had given her the assignment. Then he turns to the 'phone and deliberately calls the police. Before the police arrive, however, Miss Flip cleverly contrives to get Saunders' pistol, and at the point of it holds him at bay until the arrival of the two patrolmen. "There's your man," she says; "take him away." Saunders' protestations are laughed at by the bluecoats, who unceremoniously clip on the handcuffs and drag him out of the room. Then Miss Flip settles herself at the dining table, takes one her notebook and pencil and begins writing a glowing description of her midnight adventure.
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