"You pretend, Monsieur, that you know the motive for the crime, and that that motive--in the face of all the evidence that has been forthcoming--wasrobbery?"

The next morning the whole village was excited by the story of therobbery, and Godfrey, like every one else, was occupied in gathering and discussing news about it, and in visiting the Stone-pits.

'Now, with regard to this hererobbery, master,' said Blathers.

THErobbery at the Bank had not languished before, and did not cease to occupy a front place in the attention of the principal of that establishment now.

"Well, Ralph," said Thomas Flanagan, "what about thatrobbery?"

Jones, who was too ingenious to have missed the hint given him by his fair one, boldly asserted, "That he had run to her assistance upon hearing the door broke open, with what design he could not conceive, unless of robbing the lady; which, if they intended, he said, he had the good fortune to prevent." "I never had arobbery committed in my house since I have kept it," cries the landlady; "I would have you to know, sir, I harbour no highwaymen here; I scorn the word, thof I say it.

The bird complained to the dog of this bare-facedrobbery, but nothing he said was of any avail, for the dog answered that he found false credentials on the sausage, and that was the reason his life had been forfeited.

This functionary, being, of course, well used to such scenes; looking upon all kinds ofrobbery, from petty larceny up to housebreaking or ventures on the highway, as matters in the regular course of business; and regarding the perpetrators in the light of so many customers coming to be served at the wholesale and retail shop of criminal law where he stood behind the counter; received Mr Brass's statement of facts with about as much interest and surprise, as an undertaker might evince if required to listen to a circumstantial account of the last illness of a person whom he was called in to wait upon professionally; and took Kit into custody with a decent indifference.

They were not even crimes for the purpose of robbery--not, that is to say, forrobbery in the ordinary sense of the word.

In desperation, he ran to the city and went straight to the courthouse to report therobbery to the magistrate.

"Hotel Cosmopolitan JewelRobbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle.

It was all nothing butrobbery, and there was no safety but in keeping out of it.