She had also seen a pile of her jewellery on the table, and a pistol keeping guard on top of it.

There were several men in the house, but that pistol cowed all of them save Tommy.

"If we could lock them in!" someone suggested, but the key was on the wrong side of the door.

"I shall put it on the right side," Tommy said pluckily, "if you others will prevent their escaping by the window"; and with characteristic courage he set off for her Ladyship's room.

His intention was to insert his hand, whip out the key, and lock the door on the outside, a sufficiently hazardous enterprise; but what does he do instead?
Locks the door on the inside, and goes for the burglars with his fists! A happy recollection of Corp's famous one from the shoulder disposed at once of the man who had seized the pistol; with the other gentleman Tommy had a stand-up fight in which both of them took and gave, but when support arrived, one burglar was senseless on the floor and T.Sandys was sitting on the other.