I don't like to disappoint a burglar whom I am not acquainted with, and who has done me no harm, but if he had had common sagacity enough to inquire, I could have told him we kept nothing down there but coal and vegetables.

Still it may be that he is acquainted with the place, and that what he really wants is coal and vegetables.

On the whole, I think it is vegetables he is after." "Are you going down to see ?" "No; I could not be of any assistance.

Let him select for himself; I don't know where the things are." Then she said, "But suppose he comes up to the ground floor!" "That's all right.

We shall know it the minute he opens a door on that floor.