A Scared Thief

All the people in a Paris house were startled 011e night by a tremen dons noiso made in an upper aportment. Rushiug to thedoors theysaw a mau coming down i'uur steps at a time. J [e was arrestad, half dead with teas. He was a thieí, had made his way in with a falae key, and feeling his wny abont the apartments from room to room, ts fiiul valuables, and como upon nome straiigc, soft, moval'le, nprigbt thiug in the middlo ui the room. Xle feit of it, pcaaed liin hand higher and faigher, and feit a face, cold as ico. Frightoned, enger to escape, he could not tind his way to the door, and in hin flight upset every article of furnitm-e in the apartment. 'Dien thej ;ill went up stairs and found tho tenant oï the fowrth floor hanging in his room.