telephone-inspector

Updated: May 6, 2025

Ever since his visit to the Place, a week earlier, behind the aegis of a big and bright and newly forged telephone-inspector badge, he had carried in his trained memory the location of windows and of obstructing furniture and of the primitive small safe in the living room wall, with its pitifully pickable lock; the safe wherein the Place's few bits of valuable jewelry and other compact treasures reposed at night.

Albert Payson Terhune - Further Adventures of Lad