The Burglar and the Blizzard - A Christmas Story by Alice Duer Miller; -- Geoffrey caught the burglar trying to steal from his home but what happens next is a surprise to everyone. **** Geoffrey Holland stood up and for the second time surveyed the restaurant in search of other members of his party, two fingers in the pocket of his waistcoat, as if they had just relinquished his watch. He was tall enough to be conspicuous and well bred enough to be indifferent to the fact, good looking, in a bronzed, blond clean-shaven way, and branded in the popular imagination as a young and active millionaire. At a neighbouring table a man lent forward and whispered to the other men and women with him: