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Updated: June 10, 2025
It's a serious crime, you know; house-breaking, and robbing his Majesty's mails. We can only hope it won't come to that. The hearers all drew a long breath, like a gasp. 'Let's go down and sit on the rocks, said Marjorie abruptly. 'Now, Euan, tell us how you think it happened. 'Well, said Euan, 'the only explanation is, that that order came into Neil's possession without his knowing it.
They were very close to nature at Sausal, but though its situation was so isolated they had no fear, for the penalties for any sort of crime were terrific. Burglary, or even house-breaking, were punished with death, and one could hardly frown at another without going to prison for it.
The babies were the saddest to see nursery-plants already in training for the places these men and women now held, then to fill a pauper's grave, or perhaps a perpetual cell say rather, for the awful spaces of silence, where the railway director can no longer be guilty of a worse sin than house-breaking, and his miserable brother will have no need of the shelter of which he deprived him.
Since my return from Australia, I have been solicited by a number of friends to give them a history of my adventures in that land of gold, where kangaroos are supposed to be as plenty as natives, and jump ten times as far, and where natives are imagined to be continually lying in ambush for the purpose of making a hearty meal upon the bodies of those unfortunate travellers who venture far into the interior of the country where bushrangers are continually hanging about camp fires, ready to cut the weasands of those who close their eyes for a moment and lastly, where every other man that you meet is expected to be a convict, transported from the mother country for such petty crimes as forgery, house-breaking, and manslaughter in the second degree.
A pistol is the one weapon that has no legitimate use. An axe, a knife even a rifle, has some lawful function. But a pistol is an appliance for killing human beings. It has no other purpose whatever. A man who is found with house-breaking tools in his possession is assumed to be a house-breaker. Surely a man who carries a pistol convicts himself of the intention to kill somebody.
"I have sent for you and Ferguson, first because Grimes insists on seeing you, and second, because I am determined that this midnight house-breaking shall be thoroughly investigated and put an end to. This way," and he led them into a large airy bedroom on the third floor, to which Grimes had been carried unconscious that morning, instead of to his own bedroom in the servants' quarters.
There is less theft, less cheating, less house-breaking, less robbery of all sorts, than in any country of the same size in the world.
His death was supposed to have been much accelerated by the gloomy apprehensions that entered his mind from the moment he was seized with the fever. Saturday, 15th. Attended the Court, and heard some amusing trials for house-breaking, and stealing therefrom; in one case there were Kroomen against Kroomen: Tom Coffee and Bottle of Beer against another Bottle of Beer. Sunday, 16th. Very fine day.
'Well-done, boy; this is worth all the house-breaking we have had since we came to the swamp. As he said these words he turned half towards Murfrey, who, despite his jealousy, and his anger at the remark, was, nevertheless radiant as he contemplated his share of the booty. 'You have done bravely, and like a man.
"I am not going to ask what you two are doing here," he said sternly, "because I know already. If I called the police I could send you both to prison for house-breaking and attempted robbery; but I don't want any fuss, and perhaps you have been punished enough for the present. Ah, I see your accomplice is coming round. You came in by the window, I suppose.
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