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I then burglarised a private residence, and saved the mistress of the house from being murdered by her rascally husband blundered thence to the deadliest dive in New York met and slanged mine ancient enemy, the despoiler of my house took part in a drunken brawl saved my infatuated young idiot of a cousin, Peter Kenny, from assassination took him home, borrowed his clothing, and impudently invited myself to this party on the mere suspicion that 'Molly Lessing' and Marian Blessington might be one and the same, after all!... And all, it appears, that I might come at last to beg a favour of you."
Besides, he wanted me out of the way before he tried housebreaking. If he had succeeded in murdering me that night, I don't doubt he would have burglarised the château soon after. But he failed; the police were stirred up to renewed activity; and if Monsieur Dupont is not now safely back in Paris, hiding in some warren of Montmartre or Belleville, I am much mistaken in the man a type I know well."
He didn't relish coming every time to see if the store was being burglarised. The outside world was beginning to notice me. My poems, two of which I had sold to the Century, two to Everybody's, and a score to the Independent, were, as soon as they appeared in those magazines, immediately copied by the Kansas newspapers.
Twice in his career he drove out tramps who had burglarised the houses of prominent citizens in broad daylight, but what did it matter so long as the "hoboes" were kept from desecrating the main street of the town? Mr. Crow's official star, together with his badge from the New York detective agency, his Sons of the Revolution pin, and his G.A.R. insignia, made him a person to be feared.
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