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The other overcoat was even older , an infantry coat , with shorter cape , bearing a company number `` 47 , '' but no name . Both garments savored strongly of the stable . Then , before quiet was restored , certain search was made about the quarters . It was found the intruders had obtained admission through the basement door at the back , which was never locked , for the sentry on Number 5 had orders to call Bitzer at 5:30 A. M. , to start the fires , milk the cow , etc. , -- Hogan , Ray 's factotum , being roused about the same time . The marauders had gone up the narrow stairway into the kitchen , first lashing one end of a leather halter-strap about the knob of Bitzer 's door and the other to the base of the big refrigerator , -- a needless precaution , as it took sustained and determined effort , as many a sentry on Number 5 could testify , to rouse Bitzer from even a nap . It was no trick for the prowlers to softly raise the trap door leading to the kitchen , and , once there , the rest of the house was practically open . Such a thing as burglary or sneak thieving about the officers ' quarters had been unheard of at Frayne for many a year .