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'That rotter, Reade, said Barrett, also of Philpott's, 'has been telling us that burglary chestnut of his all the morning. I wish you chaps wouldn't encourage him. 'Why, what was it? First I've heard of it, at any rate. Dallas and Vaughan, of Ward's, added themselves to the group. 'Out with it, Reade, said Vaughan. 'It's only a beastly reminiscence of Reade's childhood, said Barrett.
He carried a big gun and posed as a bad man, and of course found genial companionship in the sons of the Indian woman. The coming of Yantes seemed to add to the boldness and reckless conduct of Frank and Jim Hall and the half-breed boy Wilson. Along towards the last of May, 1901, a burglary was committed in the neighborhood. Of course the Hall crowd was suspected and a search warrant obtained.
Such of the remaining labourers and artizans as had not been converted into soldiers, found their most profitable employment as brigands, so that the portion of the population spared by war and emigration was assisting the enemy in preying upon their native country. Brandschatzung, burglary, highway-robbery, and murder, had become the chief branches of industry among the working classes.
As it was, he muttered between his teeth: "How stupid! And still more stupid as Daubrecq had been given the warning." "No," she said. "I went to Enghien on the same day. In all that business Daubrecq saw and sees nothing but an ordinary burglary, an annexation of his treasures. The fact that you took part in it put him off the scent." "Still, the disappearance of the stopper..."
I shan't spare myself with that quid on the horizon. 'No. Hullo, there's the bell. We must buck up. Going to Charteris' gorge tonight? 'Yes, but I shan't eat anything. No risks for me. 'Rusks are more in your line now. Come on. And, in the excitement of these more personal matters, Tony entirely forgot to impart the news of the Pavilion burglary to him.
Tomorrow I'll swear a dozen charges against him burglary, abduction, instigation to murder, attempts to kill; and when he hears 'em read over, he'll be putty in your fingers." "Thanks," said Finucane. "Next: ring up the police and the station-master at Todsmoor.
"She has even confided to him her dislike for me, and he has offered her his protection." "Is this so, miss?" demanded Mr. Linden, sternly. "Yes, uncle," faltered Florence. "Then you can join the young person you have selected whenever you please. For your sake I will not have him arrested for attempted burglary. He is welcome to what he has taken, since he is likely to marry into the family.
It was Birchill who suggested postponing the burglary until Sir Horace left, but Hill urged that the original plan should be adhered to. He declared that Sir Horace would remain at home at least a fortnight, and perhaps longer. His master was a sound sleeper, he said, and if Birchill waited until he went to bed there would be no danger of awakening him.
The minute I glanced over at the express office I guessed it all out. It's a burglary, right and proper, Stirling, and the fellows who did it knew I was on the watch, got into the switch shanty, fixed the coffee and put me to sleep." Bart rapidly turned over in his mind all that the watchman had disclosed. "See here," he said promptly, "how many keys are there to the switch shanty?"
He thought of them as that crowd, but after all, they were good-natured people, and when they fancied that he was somehow vexed with the turn the talk had taken, they began to speak of other things; St. John himself led the way, and when he got Hewson alone after breakfast, he made him a sort of amend. "I didn't mean to annoy you, old fellow," he said, "with my story about the burglary."
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