At present it seems to be the popular idea that no one but the police is responsible for the protection of property, but this impression, I submit, is erroneous. If the European community would only secure their houses and property, or keep chowkidars, there would be much less rascality and robbery abroad than at present exists. As the country becomes more and more civilized, and natives cease to fear the conquering race, as they have hitherto done, we Europeans will find, to our sad experience, that we cannot live in the open, unprotected, with twenty or thirty open doors for robbers to enter and help themselves. Hence, in one way these Anarkali thefts are doing good: they are educating the Englishman in India, awakening him to the fact that, in this, as well as in all civilized countries, a robber is not a respecter of persons.