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We enter it uninvited, take all that we can lay hands on, and go out again." "This man's brother I was telling you about," said Spennie, "says there's only one rhyme in the English language to 'burglar', and that's 'gurgler'. Unless you count 'pergola', he says " "Personally," said Jimmy, with a glance at McEachern, "I have rather a sympathy for burglars.
Come, talk with me a while. Nobody will disturb us. I am all alone. My father caught the night train to New York. The servants are all asleep. I should like to give you something to eat women always prepare midnight suppers for the burglars they catch, at least they do in the magazine stories. But I don't know where to find the food. Perhaps you will have something to drink?"
She had been Lady Cathcart's caretaker for a year and a half, and had given every satisfaction. When the old lady came up to London Mrs. Slater went down to Essex and defended the country place from suffragettes and burglars. "I shouldn't care for it," said a lady friend, "all alone in the country with no cheerful noises nor human beings." "Doesn't frighten me, I give you my word, Mrs.
Now, the widow was less afraid of something bodily, like burglars, than she was of "spirits," so she resolved the next time she heard the queer tapping to run out and call for help. In a little while Bob pulled the string again, and the dangling nail went tap! tap! tap! against the pane. "Here she comes!" exclaimed Ted in a whisper as the door opened.
Aunt Olive insisted on carrying the candle, though Uncle Daniel urged that it would not be possible for him to surprise the burglars if she held this light as a warning; but she had no idea of allowing him to go out where there was every probability that he would be in danger, unless she could see what was going on.
He and three other lads, under his leadership, captured four of the most notorious burglars in London, when they were engaged in robbing my father's house. It was a most gallant affair, I can assure you; and the four burglars swung for it, a couple of months later.
'Oh, but, Merton broke in, 'this want is so widely felt, acutely felt too: hair is not in it. But where are the accomplices? 'If it is gentleman burglars I am not concerned. No Raffles for me! If it is venal physicians to kill off rich relations, the lives of the Logans are sacred to me.
I was to have stopped here till a year come Christmas, and now I have to leave at Michaelmas. I call it a beastly shame." It was some consolation to Bob to receive, next morning, a letter from his sister, saying she was delighted to hear how he had distinguished himself in the capture of the burglars.
See her purring on the hearth-rug in front of the fire, and she seems the picture of innocence and guileless content. All a blind, my dear fellow, all a blind. Wait till night comes. Then where is demure Mistress Puss? Is she at home keeping vigil with the good dog Tray? No, the house may be in blazes or ransacked by burglars for all she cares.
"Wouldn't it be dreadful, Judy, if burglars should come here," she quavered. But Judy laughed. "I think it would be fun," she jested. "Bring on your burglars, Anne. I'm dying for excitement, as Lutie Barton would say." And then she touched a button, and the lights flared up, chasing away the shadows, and chasing away with them, for the moment, the fears of little Anne.
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