"So we stand more or less as we did before the burglars appeared on the scene," she commented.

"Safe from burglars, that grave of the Captain's, if you kept it properly concealed!"

Not the burglars and all thatthough some of the things, like the water-butt, did amuse me very muchbut our being apart from all the world, there by ourselves, against the whole world in a way, Mr. Naylor.

Only as a last resort to prevent capture did burglars commit murder.

"If it was burglars they took nothing as far as we can ascertain up to the present," said Inspector Chippenfield after a pause.

"Burglars don't break into a house when there are lights about, especially after having been led to believe that the house was empty.

" "Sure," I said, "we make a specialty of burglars and pickpockets; we eat 'em alive.

It hunted rats up the nightgown sleeves, and caught burglars by the throat as they stole into bed.

She does not change her visage, whether it be lovers or burglars or soldiers who use her as a lantern to their feet.

We ask because Tit Bits has an article entitled, "Women Burglars."

We may be old-fashioned, but surely it should be "Lady Burglars." ***

*** "A box of cigarettes was all that burglars took from the Theatre Royal, Aldershot," says a news item.

"Wilks is a man well known to the policeone of the most accomplished burglars in this country, in fact.

Her senses were alert, for a friend of hers had been strangled by burglars in similar circumstances, and she had never overcome her own terror of the cold, dark house in these early hours of a winter morning.

*** Burglars have broken into an East End moneylender's office.

Ragged had been the seat of it on the day when she first went to live with him, but very early on the following morning, or, to be precise, five minutes after daybreak, he had risen to see if there were burglars in the parlour, and behold, it was his grateful little maid repadding the old arm-chair.

They had met first at a country house, where, one night after the ladies had retired to rest, Lady Pippinworth came stealing into the smoking-room with the tidings that there were burglars in the house.

Locks the door on the inside, and goes for the burglars with his fists!

"If it's burglars, I'm going to call for help.

" 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.

Where are the burglars? Are you going for the police?" "No, sir.

"Here's the burglars you were shouting about, ma'am," he said.

I thought burglars were trying to cut out a pane of glass.

He was abroad at the, same hours as the burglars and garroters, and other owls and weasels of society.

When the detective in a police romance stands alone, and somewhat fatuously fearless amid the knives and fists of a thieves' kitchen, it does certainly serve to make us remember that it is the agent of social justice who is the original and poetic figure, while the burglars and footpads are merely placid old cosmic conservatives, happy in the immemorial respectability of apes and wolves.