How to Enter a House Without Ringing the Burglar Alarm

Burglar entered house without ringing burglar alarm. He said he was a stranger and could not be expected to know the rules of the house. Said he had been in many houses just as good as this one, and it had never been objected to before. The expert now put the whole second story on the alarm,. charged three hundred dollars for it, and went his way. By and by, one night, I found a burglar on the third floor about to start down a ladder with a lot of miscellaneous property. My first impulse was to crack his head with a billiard and a queue, but my second was to refrain from this attention because he was between me and the