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Asked to account for them; she stated, without winking, that they had been paid to her by Mr Walter Ormiston at various times during the fortnight preceding the burglary, in satisfaction of debts at cards. She, Miss Belton, had left Elgin for Chicago the day after the burglary. Mr Ormiston knew that she was going.
There had been some burglaries in the neighbourhood, and the suspicion at once arises in the mind of the crude reasoner: Could Randolph finding now that Cibras has "left the country," that, in fact, the tool he had expected to serve his ends has failed him could he have thus brought those jewels there, and thus warned the servants of their presence, in the hope that the intelligence might so get abroad and lead to a burglary, in the course of which his father might lose his life?
"Is it not extraordinary that a burglary and a burglar who had had some previous experience should deliberately break into a house at a time when he could see from the lights that two of the family were still afoot?" "He must have been a cool hand." "Well, of course, if the case were not an odd one we should not have been driven to ask you for an explanation," said young Mr. Alec.
A year passed without news; and it was then decided to erect a cenotaph to his lordship in Westminster Abbey. One evening some time after this decision, Jemmy Wedge and Bill Slinker, the eminent burglars, sat in their humble room near the Mint, arranging the final details of a burglary dated for the following evening.
The fidelity of all his clerks is insured. He's insured against burglary, naturally. Against fire, too. And against loss of rent through fire. His plate-glass is insured. His bunch of keys is insured. He's insured against employers' liability. He's insured against war. He's insured against loss of business profits. The interest on his mortgage securities is insured.
From there they will have no trouble in reaching Vienna. You will explain to them, Geddos. All we need them for, as you know, is to prove by their mere presence in case of capture that the attempt was no more than a case of burglary conceived by a band of Viennese robbers. There will be no danger of capture if you once get her outside the walls.
He kept saying: `Poor little girl! it is rough luck! We said: `Why pity her, when you haven't the least idea who she is? He said: `Why not, when I know very well that I shall know some day!" Darsie smiled with politely concealed impatience. She was not in the least interested in Ralph's problematical wife, but she was devoured with anxiety to hear further particulars of the exciting burglary.
"Do you think do you possibly think it's anything to do with Mr. Anthony?" Jane's eyes sparkled like jewels at the very thought of anything so adorable. "I bet it has," said Flora. "What else could it be?" "Might be just a rotten burglary." "Chuck it," said Flora. "Don't spoil a decent show." "I don't want to. But didn't she tell you Mr. Anthony had spoofed the crowd that were against him?" "Um!
It was recalled that less than twelve months ago, while he was serving three years for burglary, his daughter had provided the newspapers with a sensation by dying in the dock while sentence was being passed on her.
Yet withal it could at least boast a Martyrdom and a Human Sacrifice. It is a moot point whether burglary is to be considered as a sport, a trade, or an art. For a trade, the technique is scarcely rigid enough, and its claims to be considered an art are vitiated by the mercenary element that qualifies its triumphs.
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