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The constables arrested and searched him. They found on him a pair of opera glasses, the property of Mr. Stamper, whose house had been burgled and burned down on the morning of the 13th. Of this crime Butler acknowledged himself to be the perpetrator.
I broke them!" he whispered. "If Boundary hadn't known me I should have been gone before you came and resigned to-morrow," he said, "but he must have discovered the boy's name. I wonder he hadn't tried before. I smashed them, didn't I, Stafford? It cost me thousands. I have committed almost every kind of crime I burgled the diamondsmiths', but you must give me your word you will never tell.
The parchment's as old as Methuselah I'll take my oath on that. There's even different ink been used for the map and the margin notes. But that's new blood or my name's Mike! That blood's not a week old! Phew! I bet it's that poor devil Mukhum Dass! Now let's figure on this: Mukhum Dass burgled my house, and was murdered about an hour afterward.
"No, she's out in the town, doing some business for me or rather trying to do it! Have you found any difficulty in getting cheques changed the last few days, Major Guthrie?" "No; for I've always kept money in the house," he said quickly. "And glad I am now that I did. It used to annoy my mother it used to make her afraid that we should be burgled. But of course I never told any one else."
He could see a hundred plundering hands stretched out in the darkness to seize the buried treasure. He could visualize the poisoning of the watch-dogs and the silent killing of the guards, and Freddy waking up to find that his "pet tomb" had been burgled and robbed of its ancient treasures. A good deal of discussion ensued between Michael and Freddy which was above Margaret's head.
He said: "It's heavy for a hat." So I informed him that hats were both heavy and large this summer. He said, "Well, I pity you, auntie!" Naturally it was his blue suit that was in the box. His mother had burgled it after he'd done his packing, while he was having lunch. I was determined he should wear that suit.
"I've been thinking things over," I remarked as we made our way back to the site of the hut, "and it's just struck me that something I once heard Bryce say might have some bearing on the matter. The night those chaps burgled us he said, 'They're up a gum-tree when they should be under one. I'm not so sure of the exact words now, but that's the substance of them anyway."
Ross Browne was accused in Syria of having "burgled" onions, and the pursuit of philology has twice subjected me to be suspected by tinkers as a flourishing member of the "dangerous classes." But to return to my rat-catcher. As I quoted a verse of German Gipsy song, he manifested an interest in it, and put me several questions with regard to the race in other lands.
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