The Stories of the Three Burglars 6.4.10

The Stories of the Three Burglars - But I had business to attend to before I could go upstairs. In thinking over and arranging this plan for the capture of burglars, I had carefully considered its various processes, and had provided against all the contingencies I could think of; therefore I was not now obliged to deliberate what I should do. "Keep your eye on them," said I to David, "and if one of them moves be ready for him. The first thing to do is to tie them hand and foot." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

• The Stories of the Three Burglars, Frank Richard Stockton, Fiction.
• But I had business to attend to before I could go upstairs.
• In thinking over and arranging this plan for the capture of burglars, I had carefully considered its various processes.
• It had provided against all the contingencies I could think of; therefore I was not now obliged to deliberate what I should do.
• "Keep your eye on them," said I to David, "and if one of them moves be ready for him.
• The first thing to do is to tie them hand and foot."
• This text refers to the Paperback edition.
• A Books of Wonder Classic.