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"We might leave them in the hall for umbrellas and canes. But then they might be overlooked, and we must take no chances on a careless burglar." Clara sat down and began to laugh, which I confess was quite the natural thing to do.
The sound of the key in the lock seemed almost like an explosion of dynamite. Mr. Bradford wiped the cold perspiration from his forehead, turned the door slowly upon its squeaky hinges, and went in, feeling like a burglar. "I am not a burglar," he thought, his hands shaking. "I have come to give, not to take away."
The vicious poor have suffered two awful wrecks, the wreck of the body, and the wreck of the soul; a wreck for time and a wreck for eternity. Go up that alley! Open the door. It is not locked. They have nothing to lose. No burglar would want anything that is there. There is only a broken chair set against the door. Strike a match and look around you. Beastliness and rags!
"The same treatment," suggested Jimmy with approval, "would also do a world of good to this playful and affectionate animal unless he is a vegetarian. In which case, don't bother." The big man glowered at him. "Who are you?" he demanded. "My name," began Jimmy, "is " "Say," said Spike, "he's a champion burglar, boss " The householder shut the door. "Eh?" he said.
"Do you think you have broken any bones in falling?" "I thought so at first, but perhaps I am only bruised." "When the doctor comes, he will extract the bullet, and relieve you of a good deal of your pain." "You are a strange boy," said the burglar, with a look of surprise. "Why am I?" "You shot me, and yet you pretend to be sorry for me now." "So I am." "Then, why did you shoot me?"
"I would have, before young Cardigan raised such Hades that day in the logging-camp, before old Cardigan sold his Valley of the Giants to another burglar and before I had gathered indubitable evidence that neither of the Cardigans knows enough about managing a sawmill and selling lumber to guarantee a reasonable profit on the capital they have invested and still pay the interest on their bonded and floating indebtedness.
We confess that we do not clearly understand how they will reconcile him with the humanity he despises, how they will move his pity for the sufferings of the poor man whom he fears, by showing him that same poor man in the guise of the escaped felon and the burglar.
It is the fight against a burglar with a revolver in his hand and a knife between his teeth; and a wounded man brought along the trench, a visible, intimate proof of a hit by the enemy, calls for more and harder blows. Looking over the parapet of the communication trench you saw fields, lifeless except for the singing birds in the wheat, who had also the spirit of battle.
Before checking off more elaborately his mental inventory, Lanyard turned attention to the protective device, a simple but exhaustive system of burglar-alarm wiring so contrived that any attempt to enter the apartment save by means of a key which fitted both doors and of which no duplicate existed would alarm both the concierge and the burglar protective society.
Broiled trout from a mountain stream near by, roast fowl and a variety of dishes, made up a feast well worthy of the lusty appetites of the travelers. Here, too, Manning received tidings of the fleeing burglar. His horse, which was a fine one, and peculiarly marked, had been noticed particularly by the ranchmen, so there was no doubt that he was upon the right road to overtake him.
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