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Forcing the locks of his trunk and guitar-case, he ran into the director's room half dressed and feigning fright, declaring that he was the victim of a robbery, and excited such pity that friends made up a purse to cover his supposed losses.
He had no taste for drink and none for bad company; highway robbery was played out, and the modern substitutes for it were too ignoble to be thought of. Had that not been the case his perplexities might have found an easy solution, for more than one golden opportunity offered for bald, barefaced breach of trust.
Si gnashed his teeth as he saw the cherished missives rudely torn open and scanned, and especially when the ambrotype case was opened and Annabel's features made the subject of coarse comment. The imminent prospect of being murdered had a much lighter pang. While the letters and ambrotype were being looked over the process of robbery was going on.
'Certainly not, replied Duff. 'And, translating the word yokel for the benefit of the ladies, I apprehend your meaning to be, that this attempt was not made by a countryman? said Mr. Losberne, with a smile. 'That's it, master, replied Blathers. 'This is all about the robbery, is it? 'All, replied the doctor.
. The keeping of order and providing for the protection of persons and property from violence and robbery. . The fixing of the legal relations between man and wife, and between parents and children. . The regulation of the holding, transmission, and interchange of property, and determination of its liabilities for debt or for crime. . The determination of contract rights between individuals.
Orme, but he imagines that you may not realize how important it is to him, and you might not guard it carefully." "I agreed to keep it until to-morrow," said Orme, quietly. "As for thieves, my apartment is on the tenth floor, pretty well out of their reach. The only danger of robbery lies between the cab and the hotel office. "I know, I know," chuckled Alcatrante. "It is, of course, as you will.
"Later, after the robbery, I remembered that I had informed this young chap of my secret hiding-place, and when I saw him again I questioned him about it. He was greatly distressed, and said he had never seen the importance of the secret. He remembered he had told several people of it, and among others the Princess Zichy.
Then Ram Narain, who has his carpet spread under the jujube-tree by the well, and writes all letters for the men of the town, came up and said: 'To-day is the one and fortieth day since the beating, and since these six days the case has been judged in the Court, and the Assistant Commissioner Sahib has given it for your brother Ram Dass, allowing the robbery, to which, too, I bore witness, and all things else as the witnesses said.
"And we'll do our best to find him, too," added Tom. "I think the hotel ought to be responsible for this robbery," said Dick. "You didn't leave your key at the desk when you went out," cried the hotel clerk, struck by a sudden idea. "What of that?" asked Tom. "That makes the guest responsible." "What!" cried Tom, aghast. "We are responsible only when the key is left at the desk.
Billy quivered, yet his adroit senses caught at a straw in the words, "as rob me!" Charley was counting it a robbery of himself, not of the widows and orphans! That gave him a ray of hope.
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