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Updated: May 31, 2025
Listening with bated breath, Lulu's ear presently caught again a faint sound as of a file moving cautiously to and fro on metal. "Burglars! I do believe it's burglars trying to steal the money and silver and Mamma Vi's jewelry that are in the safe," she said to herself with a thrill of mingled fear and excitement.
"I was in a frightful funk," continued the narrator, warily guarding his ear with his hand, "but just then the drawing-room window opened, and you and Aunt Maria came out I mean emerged. The burglars vanished silently into the laurels, with horrid implications!" The curate looked slightly puzzled. The tale was well sustained, and certainly circumstantial.
"I was thinking the other day of having shutters put to all these downstair rooms. Some of them have got them, and some have not; still, even with shutters, burglars can always get in if they want to do so. They have only to cut round the lock of a door or to make a hole in a panel to give them room to put an arm through and draw back a bolt, and the thing is done.
Then Tacks came yelling on the scene: "I thought maybe they was female burglars so I stretched a wire acrost the gate and they was in such a hurry getting away that they never noticed it till it was too everlastingly late!" Before we could remonstrate with the Boy-Disaster he let another whoop out of him and darted off in the direction of the barn.
It was a masculine voice that had sounded in the 'phone and the message was to the effect that the sender of the message had just observed two men forcing the rear entrance of Kahn's drygoods store. "And hearing that 'The Blade' is trying to catch the burglars I thought I'd just let you know," the voice had continued. "But I guess you'll have to be quick if you want a sight of the burglars.
Burglars would never hear of this place. How could they? Even his friends think it's just a private madhouse." The girl shivered and drew back from the gate. Fred coughed apologetically. "I'VE heard of it," he volunteered. "There was a piece in the Sunday Post. It said he eats his dinner in a diamond crown, and all the walls is gold, and two monkeys wait on table with gold "
"I dare say, to a boy of your age. But you don't think I would want to deprive you of any innocent pleasure, Max?" "No, sir; oh, no! But may I know why you won't let me read such stories?" "Yes; it is because they give false views of life, and thus lead to wrong and foolish actions. Why, Max, some boys have been made burglars and highwaymen by such stories.
Scientists say that the glowworm keeps its enemies at bay by the brightness of its own light. Man, by his love of truth and right, becomes his own castle and fortress. Cities no longer depend upon night-watchmen to guard against marauders and burglars. Once men trusted to safes and iron bars upon the windows. Now bankers ask electric lights to guard their treasure vaults.
"But what happened?" demanded Lottie, impatiently. "We don't know exactly what, but it appears that while Denny was out, fishing us in, someone entered his shack and ransacked it." "Burglars! What for? In that hut!" exclaimed Belle. "We don't know that, either," continued Cora. "We can only surmise. They must have been after something that was neither money nor table silver."
They promised to have the whole thing finished in ten days. They began work, and we left for the summer. They worked a couple of days; then they left for the summer. After which the burglars moved in, and began their summer vacation. When we returned in the fall, the house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
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