There were other things of more moment to her just then than old Sam Maybin 's hopeful son . There was nobody in the house but herself , and although this was neither alarming nor unusual , it was unusual -- and Miss Calista considered it alarming -- that the sum of five hundred dollars should at that very moment be in the upper right-hand drawer of the sideboard , which sum had been up to the previous day safe in the coffers of the Millageville bank . But certain unfavourable rumours were in course of circulation about that same institution , and Miss Calista , who was nothing if not prudent , had gone to the bank that very morning and withdrawn her deposit . She intended to go over to Kerrytown the very next day and deposit it in the Savings Bank there . Not another day would she keep it in the house , and , indeed , it worried her to think she must keep it even for the night , as she had told Mrs. Galloway that afternoon during a neighbourly back-yard chat . `` Not but what it 's safe enough , '' she said , `` for not a soul but you knows I 've got it . But I 'm not used to have so much by me , and there are always tramps going round . It worries me somehow . I would n't give it a thought if Caleb was here . I s ` pose being all alone makes me nervous . '' Miss Calista was still rather nervous when she went to bed that night , but she was a woman of sound sense and was determined not to give way to foolish fears . She locked doors and windows carefully , as was her habit , and saw that the fastenings were good and secure . The one on the dining-room window , looking out on the back yard , was n't ; in fact , it was broken altogether ; but , as Miss Calista told herself , it had been broken just so for the last six years , and nobody had ever tried to get in at it yet , and it was n't likely anyone would begin tonight . Miss Calista went to bed and , despite her worry , slept soon and soundly . It was well on past midnight when she suddenly wakened and sat bolt upright in bed . She was not accustomed to waken in the night , and she had the impression of having been awakened by some noise . She listened breathlessly . Her room was directly over the dining-room , and an empty stovepipe hole opened up through the ceiling of the latter at the head of her bed . There was no mistake about it . Something or some person was moving about stealthily in the room below .
It was n't the cat -- Miss Calista had shut him XXXXX the woodshed before she went to bed , and he could n't possibly get out .
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