The daughter said that they had gone to bed at dark the night her father was robbed.

She slept up stairs, and he down below.

About ten o'clock she heard him scream, and running down stairs, she found him sitting up in bed, and the window wide open.

He said a man had sprung in upon him, stuffed the bedclothes into his mouth, and dragging his box from under the bed, had made off with it.
She ran to the door and looked out, but there was no one to be seen.

It was dark, and snowing a little, so no traces of footsteps were to be perceived in the morning.
"Father found that the neighbors were dropping in to bear the old man company, so he drove on to Sudbury, and then returned home.