But to return to business: how did you get in here ?' "'Through a second-story window.' "It was even so.

I redeemed the tinware at pawnbroker's rates, less cost of advertising, bade the burglar good-night, closed the window after him, and retired to headquarters to report.

Next morning we sent for the burglar-alarm man, and he came up and explained that the reason the alarm did not 'go off' was that no part of the house but the first floor was attached to the alarm.

This was simply idiotic; one might as well have no armor on at all in battle as to have it only on his legs.
The expert now put the whole second story on the alarm, charged three hundred dollars for it, and went his way.

By and by, one night, I found a burglar in the third story, about to start down a ladder with a lot of miscellaneous property.