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I tell you, Rolfe, when I compare Sibyl with her mother, I almost feel she's too good for the world. Suppose she had turned out that sort of woman! What would have been the end of it? Murder, most likely. But she bore the loss of all her money just as she did the loss of her jewellery and things when our house was burgled never turned a hair. There's a girl to be proud of, I tell you!
"In a case like this," Hewitt answered, "one must disregard nothing but the impossible. Somebody whether Mr. Woollett himself or another person could possibly have seen into this room from those windows, and equally possibly could have reached this room from that one. Therefore we must not forget Mr. Woollett. Have any of your neighbors been burgled during the night?
A great deal of the evidence as to his conduct and demeanour at the time of the murder Butler met by acknowledging that it was he who had broken into Mr. Stamper's house on the Saturday morning, burgled it and set it on fire. His consciousness of guilt in this respect was, he said, quite sufficient to account for anything strange or furtive in his manner at that time.
Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. "'Where have you put it? asked Arthur. "'In my own bureau. "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the night. said he. "'It is locked up, I answered. "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau.
'Yes. He glanced at me with that expressionless look upon his face which he could summon at will, and which is at the bottom of the superstition about his iron nerve. 'I was worried, and not well. Besides, one doesn't care to be burgled, even by a maniac. 'Was he a maniac? 'Did you see him? 'Very clearly. 'Where? 'In the street. 'How close were you to him? 'Closer than I am to you.
It's the map out of the silver tube that Mukhum Dass burgled from my cellar. Gungadhura gave it to me with instructions to dig here. You'll note there's blood on it." Samson's eyes looked hardly interested as he took it. Then he looked, and they blazed. He put it in his inner pocket hurriedly. "Too bad, Blaine!" he laughed. "So you even had a map of the treasure, eh?
First of all, I arranged that a special constable should be on duty in Manleigh Road, and from his appearance no one would have supposed that anything in the way of a genius had been introduced into the neighborhood. He looked a fool; he was one of the smartest men I knew. Strangely enough, on the Thursday night No. 7 was burgled quite early in the evening as soon as it was dusk.
They engaged expensive suites of rooms or flats, furnished them most expensively on credit or the hire system, insured the goods against burglary, promptly burgled themselves, sold the goods, realised the insurance, and then vanished to repeat their proceedings elsewhere. So clever were they at the business that costly but portable goods were freely submitted to their tender mercies.
"Yes, sir, what is it?" she asked, in an agitated manner, for never could she remember Georgie having rung the bell three times except once when a fish-bone had stuck in his throat, and once again when a note had announced to him that Piggy was going to call and hoped to find him alone. For answer Georgie pointed to the rifled treasure-case. "Gone! Burgled!" he said. "Oh, my God!"
I was scrutinizing the house across the way rather intently, but honestly there was no burglary in my thoughts." "I'm rather sorry to hear that," he countered with a simulation of disappointment. "I've never burgled and I had begun to hope you'd initiate me and let me share the adventure."
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