Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 7, 2025
She had stated at the inquest that she had not known the burglar's identity; Kent paused as the thought occurred to him the twins had swapped identities on the witness stand, and therefore Helen had not been called upon to answer that question! To the best of his recollection she had only been asked if she had recognized Jimmie in the court room and not at her home.
If the words had been lightning they could not have leaped with a more stunning suddenness from Huck's blanched lips. His eyes were staring wide, now, and his breath suspended waiting for the answer. The Welshman started stared in return three seconds five seconds ten then replied: "Of burglar's tools. Why, what's the MATTER with you?"
The idea of burglars sprang up in his mind, but was dismissed; that was no burglar's footstep and yet! He listened. The sound had ceased and now came a faint rubbing as of a hand feeling for the window followed by the sharp rapping of a knuckle on the glass. "Hullo," cried Pinckney, jumping to his feet and approaching the shuttered window. "Who's there?" "It's me," said a voice. "I'm locked out.
Quick now in every action, he swung aside the portiere that curtained off the squat, barrel-shaped safe in the little alcove, opened the safe, took out that curious leather girdle with its kit of burglar's tools, added to it a flashlight and an automatic revolver, closed the safe and passed into his dressing room.
"Let's call Hedrick," suggested the pallid Laura; "or put our heads out of the window and scream for " Cora laughed; she was not in the least frightened. "That wouldn't wake papa, of course! If we had a telephone I'd send for the police; but we haven't. I'm going to see if there's any one there. A burglar's a man, I guess, and I can't imagine myself being afraid of any man!"
Your father reviewed it, and said no family ought to be without it." "But you didn't bribe father, and you didn't copy from Snooks, I am sure," said Gladys, determined to defend her father, even in his assumed character. "What was the name of your thing, papa?" asked Barbara. "I don't know, my dear, I have not considered that matter." "It was called 'The Burglar's Betrothal," said Valentine.
He threw up his left hand and caught the other's wrist before that deadly blow he aimed could descend and at the same instant he dashed his own clenched fist full into the burglar's face. As it happened, more by good luck than intended aim, the blow took him on the point of the chin.
During all this time Holmes had not communicated with me at all, and I began to fear that, offended by my behavior at our last meeting, he had cut me out of his calculations altogether, when, just as I was about to retire on Sunday night, he reappeared as he had first come to me stealing up the fire-escape; and this time he wore a mask, and carried unquestionably a burglar's kit and a dark lantern.
The detective, however, was too quick for him, and placing the muzzle of his pistol against the burglar's cheek, he said, determinedly: "If you attempt to draw your pistol, I'll blow your brains out!" Duncan felt that it was useless to attempt to trifle with the resolute man before him, and his arms dropped to his side. "It's no use, Tod," said Manning, with a quiet smile.
While Jack Blunt worked upon the lover's fears, "Prince Djiddin's" hands, on an exploring tour, drew out a knife and two revolvers from the captured burglar's wideawake coat. He picked up the bulky bundle which the thief had dropped, and saw the bank seals of Calcutta and the insurance labels thereon. "I'll give you a show. Keep silent!" cried Hardwicke as he cut the cords on the fellow's legs.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking