The steel coffer, with the keys still in it, was there half open.

He slid back the lid, and taking out a few of the topmost papers, ran them through his fingers.
There was no doubt about it.

The document was missing.

He returned to the chair to which he had carried Virginia.
"Are you well enough now," he asked, "to tell me about this ?" She raised herself in her chair, and looked with fascinated eyes toward that spot in the carpet.
"Has anything gone ?" she asked.
"Yes!" her uncle answered shortly.

"I want to know how it was that any one got into this room, and who it was.