There is no saying when a house like this, standing alone, and containing a good deal of plate and valuables, may be broken into." "Well, you might as well carry them always when you go out after dark.
I shall speak to Knapp, and request him to let me know if he hears of a suspicious looking character--any stranger, in fact--being noticed in or about the village, and I shall have a talk with Simeox, the head constable at Reigate, and ask him to do the same.

He is not the same man who was head at the time Bastow was up before us, but he was in the force then, and, as one of the constables who came up to take the prisoners down to Reigate, he will have all the facts in his mind.

He is a sharp fellow, and though Bastow has no doubt changed a good deal since then, he would hardly fail to recognize him if his eye fell upon him.

Of course we may be alarming ourselves unnecessarily, but there are several reasons why I should object strongly to be shot just at the present time." "Or at any other time, I should say, father," the young man said with a laugh.
"I shall know him, Squire, safe enough," the head constable replied when John Thorndyke went down to see him on the following day; "but I should think that if he does come back to England he will hardly be fool enough to come down here.

He was pretty well known in town before that affair, and everyone who was in the courthouse would be sure to have his face strongly impressed upon their minds.