We are at our wits' end about them.
We are flooded with letters of complaint from residents; but though the patrols on the common have been doubled and every effort made, we are as far off as ever.

As far as the burglaries are concerned, we have every reason to think that they are the work of two or three new hands.

The jobs are not neatly done, and certainly not with tools usually used by burglars.

They seem to rely upon daring rather than skill.

Anyhow, we don't know where to look for them, and are altogether at sea.
"Of course it is as annoying to us as it is to anyone else; more so, because the Justices of the Peace are sending complaints to the Home Secretary, and he in turn drops on us and wants to know what we are doing.