It is about thirty feet from the ground, but they had a sort of apparatus for pulling up the barrels, and a rope ladder for the men.

The preventive officers would see the boat come up the creek, and would march down from the village, only to find it empty.

Of course, they suspected all the time where the things went, but they could not prove it, and as my ancestor was a magistrate and an important man they did not dare to search the house." The Princess sighed gently.
"Those were the days," she murmured, "in which it must have been worth while to live.

Things happened then.

To-day your ancestor would simply have been called a thief." "As a matter of fact," Cecil remarked, "I do not think that he himself benefited a penny by any of his exploits.