You open the window at once and call "Murder!" as loud as you can.
Selina obeyed; but when she had opened the window, instead of calling 'Murder!' she called 'Septimus!' because at that very moment she saw her nephew coming in at the gate.
In another minute he had let himself in with his latch-key and had mounted the stairs.

As he came into the room Jane and Robert each uttered a shriek of joy so loud and so sudden that the ladies leaped with surprise, and nearly let them go.
'It's our own clergyman,' cried Jane.
'Don't you remember us ?' asked Robert.

'You married our burglar for us--don't you remember ?' 'I KNEW it was a gang,' said Amelia.

'Septimus, these abandoned children are members of a desperate burgling gang who are robbing the house.

They have already forced the missionary-box and purloined its contents.' The Reverend Septimus passed his hand wearily over his brow.
'I feel a little faint,' he said, 'running upstairs so quickly.' 'We never touched the beastly box,' said Robert.
'Then your confederates did,' said Miss Selina.
'No, no,' said the curate, hastily.