56 J. COLE.

unbroken row of about forty detached houses
facing each other.

What could we do? I dared not wait until
the policeman came back; quite twenty min-
utes must pass before then, and day being so
near at hand, the Lght was increasing every
moment, and the burglars would surely not
leave without visiting the drawing-room and
dining-room, and would perhaps murder us
to save themselves from detection.

If I could only attract the policeman’s at-
tention, but how?

My sister was close to the door listening,
and every instant we dreaded hearing them
coming up the kitchen stairs. JI could not
understand Bogie not barking, and Joe not
waking, for where I was I could distinctly
hear the men moving about in the pantry
and kitchen.

“T wonder,” I said to my sister, “if I could
put something across from this balcony to the
stonework by the front steps? It seems such
a little distance, and if I could step across,
I could open the front gate in an instant, and
run after the policeman. I shall try.”