He at once made for the back-room first-floor. From the balcony of this he let his bag gently down on to the grass plot beneath with a small piece of cord; then he climbed over the balcony, and hanging for a moment by his hands, he dropped from thence on to the grass.
Unfortunately for him, his coat-tail swept down one of the shrubs in a flower-pot; this fell on to a glass skylight over the back kitchen.
The crash of glass awoke one of the maidservants, who jumped out of bed, and, opening one of the back-windows, peered forth.
She saw a man running across the grass plot towards the shrubbery by the side of the house, and at once suspected that something was amiss.
Panting and almost breathless, Peace arrived at the spot where Bandy-legged Bill was awaiting his reappearance.
He jumped into the cart, and told his companion to drive off at once.
Bill urged on his pony to its fullest speed, and in a very short time he and his companion were far away from the scene of the burglary.
In a short time they reached Leather-lane in safety, without the faintest degree of suspicion being attached to them.
The burglary at Denmark-hill was pronounced to be a great success both by the principal and his abettor.
Peace presented his companion with fifty pounds as a recompense for his valuable services.