"That is not so.

Nor could the thief have been the burglar who broke open the bureau to get at the keys.

For long after both of them were out of the house I took a cigarette from the box which stood on the bureau beside the case which held the pendant.

And it occurred to me that the young rascal might have played that very trick on me.

I opened the case and the pendant was there." "It has been stolen!" cried the millionaire; "of course it has been stolen." "Oh, no, no," said the Duke.