Dick, to do him justice, thought more of his mother's loss than of his own.
"Are you going to the police about this, my dear ?" Mrs.Prescott asked her husband presently.
"I could," the elder Prescott replied, "but I don't imagine it would do much good.

The stuff that has been taken isn't likely to be restored to us.

I doubt if the police would think it even worth any effort.

It isn't an important robbery, as crime goes.

It was just a little trick of revenge." "Mr.Fits is revenged all right, then," admitted Dick, with a bitter smile.