But, if I must be caught, it's something to be caught by brave young heroes like you.

My stars! How you did bolt into the room,--"Surrender, and up with your hands!" You might have been born and bred to the thief-catching.' Oswald is sorry if it was mean, but he could not own up just then that he did not think there was any one in the study when he did that brave if rash act.

He has told since.
'And what made you think there was any one in the house ?' the robber asked, when he had thrown his head back, and laughed for quite half a minute.

So we told him.

And he applauded our valour, and Alice and H.
O.explained that they would have said 'Surrender,' too, only they were reinforcements.