3/34 The houses of the well-to-do were a combination of safe deposit vault and fortress. The appropriation of the personal belongings of others by our own children of to-day is looked upon as a rudimentary survival of the theft-characteristic that in those early times was universal. He struck me as stupid, and yet the deftness with which he worked with his one hand seemed to belie his stupidity. It just happened." "Carelessness ?" I prompted. |