"You've broken the bone," he said.
"I just swung on him," said the young man. He turned his eyes, and suggested the presence of the girl.
At the same moment the man in the kimono cried nervously: "Ladies present, ladies present. Go put your clothes on, everybody; put your clothes on."
For orders the men in the doorway looked to the young man with the stern face.
He scowled at the figure in the kimono.
"You will please go to your room, sir," he said. He stood up, and bowed to Miss Forbes. "I beg your pardon," he asked, "you must want to get out of this. Will you please go into the library?"
He turned to the robust youths in the door, and pointed at the second burglar.
"Move him out of the way," he ordered.
The man in the kimono smirked and bowed.
"Allow me," he said; "allow me to show you to the library. This is no place for ladies."