Sebastien, who admired his chief without reservation, and who was, as yet, wholly ignorant of the evils of bureaucracy, had the follies of guilelessness as well as its grace.

Blamed on a former occasion for carrying away these papers, he now bravely acknowledged his fault to its fullest extent; he related how he had put away both the memorandum and the copy carefully in a box in the office where no one would ever find them.
Tears rolled from his eyes as he realized the greatness of his offence.
"Come, come!" said Rabourdin, kindly.

"Don't be so imprudent again, but never mind now.

Go to the office very early tomorrow morning; here is the key of a small safe which is in my roller secretary; it shuts with a combination lock.

You can open it with the word 'sky'; put the memorandum and your copy into it and shut it carefully." This proof of confidence dried the poor fellow's tears.