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Updated: July 16, 2025
He pulled Allerdyke up in a narrow part of the old street, jointed to the flags, and then to the house behind them an ancient, ramshackle place, the doors and windows of which were boarded up, the entire fabric of which showed unmistakable readiness for the pick and shovel of the house-breaker. And he laid a hand on one of the shattered windows, close by a big hole in the decaying wood.
Ahead of all these ran the gentlemanly house-breaker and the policeman, both of whom were strong and supple.
"They will not, certainly, unless you tell them, Josephine." "Tell them? I wouldn't mention what has happened for the world," she answered, looking at me with a sort of sorrowful disdain. Thus is it that the ideals which women form concerning us are one by one shattered! I am sure that Josephine would have been inconsolable had I fallen a victim to the bullet of a house-breaker.
You think of that because you are a girl." "Yes. I would rather stay here than trust myself on the roof." "Do you know if the next house is higher than this?" "Yes, it is." "That's very awkward," said Jasper, thoughtfully. "But there are some windows in the side of the house. You might get in at one of them." "And be taken for a house-breaker? Well, I must run the risk, any way.
Rann, as before, was silent as death. Then he heard the door close. A key clicked in the lock. He was trapped. "Turn on the light, Billy," he heard Rann say in a quiet, unexcited voice. "We've got this house-breaker cornered, and he's lost his gun. Turn on the light and I'll make one shot do the business!" Aldous heard Quade moving, but he was not coming toward the table.
Shall we forgive a house-breaker because the tools which he has himself invented are used at last upon his own door? The modern lovers of Cæsar and of Cæsarism generally do not seek to wash their hero white after that fashion. To them it is enough that the man has been able to trample upon the laws with impunity, and to be a law not only to himself but to all the world around him.
They could laugh now at their surprise in meeting friendly Bruce instead of a very unfriendly house-breaker, but more than once both of them caught themselves listening for sounds in the silent house below. "It was just luck," said Billie, as she rose at last to go to bed, "that it was Bruce that happened to find that open window instead of of some one else!"
When man acts the part of house-breaker, however, he cunningly shuts the back-door first, by driving stakes through the ice, and thus stopping the passage. Then he enters, and, we almost regret to say, finds the family at home. We regret it, because the beaver is a gentle, peaceable, affectionate, hairy little creature, towards which one feels an irresistible tenderness!
Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils; and as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds the king of Britain can look up to heaven for help against us: a common murderer, a highwayman, or a house-breaker, has as good a pretence as he.
The burglar tore the inside of one trousers' leg and the back of his coat in his haste to pass through the barbed wire fence onto the open road. There he paused to mop the perspiration from his forehead, though the night was now far from warm. For another mile the now tired and discouraged house-breaker plodded, heavy footed, the unending road. Did vain compunction stir his youthful breast?
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