Scurrying to his bed and leaning over, she whispered the awful words: "There's a burglar in the house, Chet." "A burglar?" repeated Chet, wide awake by this time.

There were in fact no burglars at Orven Hall that night.'

It is better to be a burglar with an ideal than a blameless person with very little soul or personality, who just slides through life accepting things: it is better to have a coster's ideal of a holiday than to be too indifferent or stupid to care or to know what you want.

It is not too much to say that everybody should have an ideal, even a burglar: his ideal is to be a good and thorough burglar, and probably if he is a burglar of the finer sort, it is to play fair to the whole gang.

Enter two Burglars to them, POPPEY and CURTALL.

No, the house may be in blazes or ransacked by burglars for all she cares.

If any old Roslyn boy reads this veracious history, he will doubtless be astounded to hear that the burglars on that memorable night were Brio, Pietrie, Graham, and Wildney.

"Oh, he is a burglar by his own confession," said my wife; "there can be no doubt of that.

I brought the burglar into the laboratory and deposited him in the tank, shutting the air-tight lid and securing it with a padlock.

And, lastly, that Mrs. McLean woke with visions of burglars before her eyes, to find her pillow deserted and her husband sitting at a writing-table.

*** Large quantities of food have been carried off by a burglar from several houses in the Heathfield district.

I confess I have great difficulty in understanding why such an accomplished flash burglar as Birchill, one of the best men at the game in London at the present time, should want the assistance of an amateur like Hill in such a simple job.

" As he expected, the door on the side porch was locked, and he went around to the dining-room and entered like a burglar through a window.

Many brave men, who would stop a runaway horse, or who would dare to look for burglars under the bed, quail utterly before the prospect of talking to a young girl who frankly says, "I don't think.

GILBERT'S burglar up-to-date: "He loves to hear the Temperance Club a-gurgling.