"£300 had been stolen from the adjutant's safe.
"A sergeant had lost his false teeth.
"Algy's servant missed all his furlough money.
"The colonel's wife had given Algy a cheque for £50.
"Five officers had lent him a fiver.
"And a barmaid from the town was missing. 'It can't be Algy who has done this!' said the regiment.
"'It was Algy,' telegraphed the police [pg 52] from London, for he was arrested there, and got five years' penal servitude.
"Now, who do you think Algy was?"
"Tell us," cried Spud.
"Algy was the biggest crook in London. He was proved to be the man who stole King Edward's dressing-bag at Euston Station."