The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles

THE BURGLARS' CLUB

'MAY I ASK WHAT YOU EXPECT TO FIND HERE?'
A ROMANCE IN TWELVE CHRONICLES
BY HENRY A. HERING WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY F. H. TOWNSEND
B. W. DODGE AND COMPANY NEW YORK 1906
Copyright 1905, 1906, BY HENRY A. HERING.
'He's one of us,' the burglar explained. 'You see, we are men who have pretty well exhausted the pleasures of life. We've all been in the Army or the Navy, all of us are sportsmen, and we are bachelors; so there isn't much excitement left for us. We've started a Burglars' Club to help things on a bit. The entrance fee is a town burglary, the subject to be set by our president, and every other year each member has to keep up his subscription by a provincial line.'

A ROMANCE IN TWELVE CHRONICLES.
SIR JOHN CARDER'S CIGARS.
Sir John Carder, head of the well-known firm of Carder and Co., merchants, of Manchester, sat in his warehouse. It was one o'clock in the morning. Since half-past eight he had been alone in the building; and there in his snug private office, before a cheery fire and beneath electric light, Sir John prepared to meet what he conceived to be his fate.