In a solemn hour of night I have gone downstairs to face a burglar.

Detectives report they think evidence now points to innocence of man arrested and to former employee as the burglar.

To the police and Sir Horace it would look as though the burglar had accidentally found the spring of the secret drawer.

He did not take Birchill into his confidence with regard to the blackmailing scheme, but in order to induce Sir Horace to believe the burglar had stolen the letters he told Birchill to force open the desk, as he would probably find money or papers of value there.

By planting cunningly a wide-bored fusil, With buck-shot loaded half-way to the muzzle, Right opposite the window to which came The nightly thief, to ply his little game; And to the trigger hitching so a string, That when the burglar bold was entering The charge went off, and, crashing through the shutter, Relieved the rascal of his bread and butter By blowing off his head.

*** There appears to be no truth in the report that a burglar has been fined for infringing the Defence of the Realm Regulations by using an unshaded lantern.

The burglar knows better than to visit the same house two nights in succession.

'Struth; are you drunk or am I?" "Meaning," said the boatswain, waving the imputation away with his hand, "for you to pretend to be a burglar.

I'm not a burglar; I'm doing this for a friend of yoursMr.

"A burglar," she said, in a tense whisper.

"I have turned lady burglar.

Does it not jingle the burglar's key?

It was a burglar, but it seemed to me a little late to go down.

The burglar girl.

The burglar girl.

The enterprising burglar, by Hearden Balfour, pseud. of Lady Eve Balfour and Beryl Hearden.

The escaping burglar.

Patricia Marion Caldecott Frere (C); 13Oct55; R158226. Heard by the burglar.

Dot catches a burglar.

A Burglar's advice.

Mr. Jasper Tredgold, on the other hand, arrived at the conclusion that a highly respectable burglar was offering for some reason to share his loot with him.

In Belgium I suffered all the depression which a nightmare of war's misery can bring; in French Lorraine I found myself sharing something of the elation of a man who looks at a bruised knuckle with the consciousness that it broke a burglar's jaw.

There was also a queer little room, dark and mysterious, in the center of house on the ground floor, without even one window, convenient to retire to during severe thunder storms or to evade a personal interview with a burglar; just the place, too, for a restless ghost to revisit.

That dark little room I described as so convenient during a terrific thunderstorm or the prowling investigations of a burglar, began after a while to get mysterious and uncanny, and I disliked, nay, dreaded to enter it after dark.

Joe instantly recognized Boston Frank, and heard that he had been caught by a farmer's posse, who, following a trail of blood that had dripped from the buggy, had surprised Boston Frank while he was busy at work burying the satchels containing the burglar tools.