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He found it difficult to pursue the items beyond their explanatory rubrics there was nothing unusual or startling to concentrate his attention: "Motorman Puts Blame on Brakes. Three Killed when Car Slides." "Burglars Make Big Haul." "Board Works Approve Big Car-line Extension." "Hold-up Men Injure Two. Man Found in Alley, Skull Fractured." "Sickening Story Told in Divorce Court."
He's got a grocery store up in Butte, and used to go out to the race track once in a while. Some of those burglars got hold of him and sold him something with four legs and a tail. They told him it was a sure enough race hoss, and now he's down here to make his fortune. Gillis saw him first, I reckon. Hopwood has hired him by the month and a percentage of what he wins."
"You think so, eh?" sneered the newcomer. "Tell me," addressing Chester, "what are you doing here?" "That's for you to find out," replied the lad. "Well, I'll find out," exclaimed the man. "Do you know who I am?" "Why, yes; your name is Robard, isn't it?" The other stepped back in surprise. "So you know me, eh!" he exclaimed. "Then you are not burglars." "Hardly," replied Chester.
"There's a thief in the village a guest at the hotel whom I recognize as one of the most expert burglars in the country." "I think I know whom you mean, a man of moderate height, rather thick set, with small, black eyes and a slouch hat." "Exactly." "What can you tell me about him?" Mr. Thorndike repeated the statement he had already made to Carl.
"Be you a officer?" "You'll find out whether I am or not!" said the furious policeman, standing up and blowing his whistle again. "Then watcher doin' here?" "I'm here mindin' my own business, I was sent here to look after this house orders of the Chief. Who in thunder are you?" "This here's the Kunsterble," said Gregory the Gauger, nodding his head toward Eb, "an' we've ketched the burglars.
"Sketches of Doheny and some of the Confederate leaders, modelled upon the descriptions of burglars and murderers, that ordinarily adorn the Hue and Cry were," wrote Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, a generation later, "issued for the enjoyment of loyal persons."
The other case was that of a patrolman who seemed to have fallen into the habit of catching burglars. Roosevelt noticed that he caught two in successive weeks, the second time under unusual conditions. The policeman saw the burglar emerging from a house soon after midnight and gave chase. The fugitive ran toward Park Avenue.
Her eye was arrested by what was a familiar sight enough, though it broke upon her now with a new significance. It was a brace of pistols, hanging near the head of her grandfather's bed, which he always kept there loaded, as a precaution against possible burglars, the house being very lonely.
"W -we ar -are not burglars!" spluttered Carl. "We are " "Do -don't sh -shoot!" wailed Ham Spink. "We di -didn't mean " Bang! went the shotgun Snap had picked up. He fired at the corner of the building, into a mass of rubbish. A piercing yell of terror came up from below, and down dropped Ham and Carl into the water once more.
It may prove the simplest matter in the world, but all the same at first glance this is just a little curious, is it not? A gang of burglars acting in the country might be expected to vary the scene of their operations, and not to crack two cribs in the same district within a few days.
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