Then a tall man speaking with a foreign accent, said, "Search that officer and the dwarf.

Take from them the seal upon a gold chain and a rope of rose-hued pearls which they have stolen.

But do them no harm." So they searched us, the tall man himself helping and, aided by others, holding Bes who struggled with them, and searched the chariot also, by the light of the moon, but found nothing.

The tall man muttered that I must be the wrong officer, and at a sign they left us and ran away.
"That was a wise thought of mine, Bes, which caused me to leave certain ornaments in the palace," I said.

"As it is they have taken nothing." "Yes, Master," he answered, "though I have taken something from them," a saying that I did not understand at the time.