"You brought the treasure home, put it in what you considered a safe place, and one day awoke to find your estimable guest missing and the treasure gone with him.

Have I guessed correctly ?" "You have hit the mark exactly," Kitwater replied.

"We woke one day not only to find the treasure gone, but also ourselves and our mission seriously compromised.

The relations of the dead man not only accused us of having alienated him from the faith of his forefathers, but also of having robbed him of his ancestral treasure.

We could not but admit that we had been presented with the wealth in question, and when it was demanded of us, we could only explain that we had lost it in our turn.
You can imagine the position for yourself.