"But you must be very quiet," she said, "or you will wake the house and
we shall be caught. Come now, lovie, and I'll hide you in my own room."
She closed the door as quietly as possible and crept upstairs again,
carrying the dog hugged in her arms.
As she stole along the passage to her room, one of the maids whispered
to another who was sleeping in the room with her:
"Oh, I have heard a great noise down-stairs, and one of the dogs was
barking. And just now I am sure I heard feet in the passage."
"Some one has got into the house then," said the other maid listening.
"Oh, lie still, don't get up!" said the first maid. "It must be
burglars."
"I will go and waken the men," said the other courageously. And
down-stairs she went and wakened the butler and footman. Soon they were
all searching the house, the butler armed with a gun, the others with
large pokers. No burglars were to be found, and the butler was very
cross at having been called out of his bed for nothing at all.
The maids persisted that some one had been in the house, some one who
must have escaped while they were giving the alarm.
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