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As he looked cautiously into the living room his elbow struck this, and
it rattled sharply in the stillness.
He had heard a faint creak, and, as he peeped around the corner of the
arch, he saw dimly the figure of a man near the door, evidently just in
the act of opening it.
With a succession of noiseless leaps Ted was across the room, and
arrived at the door just as it swung open and the man was about to
depart.
But Ted was upon his back with the swiftness of a bobcat, and they came
together to the floor with? a crash.
The burglar was beneath, but this did not prevent him from fighting
with a desperation that lent strength to his already strong and lithe
body.
He was slenderer and younger than Ted, who could feel it in the fellow's
build as they struggled.
"Let me out, or I'll kill you," said the burglar, and Ted saw the flash
of a knife.
At the same moment something rushed past them in the dark, and out of
the door.
As Ted saw it dimly it was small, and its motions were awkward and
lumbering.


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