waked up. I heard somebody say: 'Oh, at take it!'"

"Who was it?"

"A boy about your size."

"What was he doing?" asked Dave.

"He was up on top of the fence. He had climbed up one of the
slanting outside supports, I guess. You know there's two rows of
barbed wire a-top of the boards. Well, there he was, making a great
fuss."

"What about?" inquired Dave.

"The back of his coat was all tangled up in the barbs. He couldn't
pull it loose. Then I heard some voices speak on the inside of the
fence. There were two men there."

"You think they had got over first?"

"It looked that way. They told the boy to pull out of his coat. He
got his arms out, started to untwist the coat, stuck his fingers
with the barbs, and tumbled over into the factory yard."

"And then?" pressed Dave eagerly.

"H'm! I went to sleep."

"What! not knowing but what they were burglars?"