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At the end of a month `` Burglar Bill of the Silver District was the nurse-girl 's standby for frightening children . Five burglaries were attributed to him , but though Dalyrimple had only committed three , he considered that majority had it and appropriated the title to himself . He had once been seen -- `` a large bloated creature with the meanest face you ever laid eyes on . '' Mrs. Henry Coleman , awaking at two o'clock at the beam of an electric torch flashed in her eye , could not have been expected to recognize Bryan Dalyrimple at whom she had waved flags last Fourth of July , and whom she had described as `` not at all the daredevil type , do you think ? '' When Dalyrimple kept his imagination at white heat he managed to glorify his own attitude , his emancipation from petty scruples and remorses -- but let him once allow his thought to rove unarmored , great unexpected horrors and depressions would overtake him . Then for reassurance he had to go back to think out the whole thing over again . He found that it was on the whole better to give up considering himself as a rebel .