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The draught moving through the hall stirred the portiere and reminded him that the window in the trunk-room was still open, an invitation to any enterprising sneak-thief or second-story man. So Maitland went to close and make it fast. As he shut down the window-sash and clamped the catch he trod on something soft and yielding.
He certainly was no burglar or sneak-thief, or he would have bolted when I opened the door. The key with which he had attempted to gain ingress to my flat was doubtless a pass-key to Cassavetti's rooms. He seemed a queer person to be in possession of such a thing, but that was Cassavetti's affair, and not mine. "Here, you'd better have your key," I called, jerking it out of my lock.
And this chap's Hall? Well, my name's Miller. So now we know each other. Would you mind sitting down, you fellows?" Steve sank on to the bed and Tom retreated to the unoccupied chair, from where he viewed Miller with fascinated attention. "It was this way, you fellows," explained Miller. "I may be a bit thin-skinned, but I don't like being called a sneak-thief.
Hoey, and smiled again. He was intensely annoyed. Mrs. Molie turned pink and pretty. At the next meal, Mr. Hoey could contain himself no longer. "Ladies," he said, "mine eyes have now beheld Master Solem." "Well?" "Common sneak-thief!" "Oh, shame!" "You must admit he has a brazen look on his face. No beard. Blue chin, a perfect horse-face...." "There's no harm in that," said Mrs. Molie. Mrs.
'I'll prophesy if you like, said the captain with renewed vigour. 'Refuse this, because you think yourself too honest, and before a month's out you'll be jailed for a sneak-thief. I give you the word fair. I can see it, Herrick, if you can't; you're breaking down.
As for thieving from the premises, the Filipino stood unequalled the champion sneak-thief of the universe. And the sentries this night, softly lighted by a waning old moon, were on the lookout everywhere among the suburbs for two malefactors distinctly differing in type, yet equally in demand.
Many thought that the blood was that of a burglar or negro sneak-thief, who might have gone to Drysdale's house to steal, but who had been frightened off before he had secured any plunder. The blood might have been from an old hurt. Others, more superstitiously inclined, believed that the ghost was in some way responsible for the blood.
If one could get a seat outside with the guards and the driver one who knew how to unlock the lore of these sons of the hills he was lucky; for he would learn who made his strike there, who was murdered at another place, how the sneak-thief trailed the tenderfoot somewhere else all of it romance, much of it fiction, much of it fact, but no fiction half so marvellous as the fact.
"Refuse this, because you think yourself too honest, and before a month's out you'll be gaoled for a sneak-thief. I give you the word fair. I can see it, Herrick, if you can't; you're breaking down. Don't think, if you refuse this chance, that you'll go on doing the evangelical; you're about through with your stock; and before you know where you are, you'll be right out on the other side.
M. Benjamin-Constant's artificially conceived seraglio scenes are as realistically rendered as is indicated by a recent caricature depicting an astonished sneak-thief, foiled in an attempted rape of the jewels in a sultana's diadem, painted with such deceptive illusoriness by M. Benjamin-Constant's clever brush.
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