He told you how you could get it--you had access to Maddon's safe, you were Maddon's confidential secretary, fully in your employer's trust, the last man on earth to be suspected--and there were Maddon's famous, priceless rubies." Jimmie Dale paused.

Burton made no answer.
"And so," said Jimmie Dale presently, "to save yourself from the death penalty you took them." "Yes," said Burton, scarcely above his breath.

"Are you an officer?
If you are, take me, have done with it! Only for Heaven's sake end it! If you're not--" Jimmie Dale was not listening.

"The cupboard at the rear of the room," she had said.

He walked across to it now, opened it, and, after a little search, found a small bundle.