"You had better look yourself, Mr.Matiss; you will probably recognise it." Mr.Matiss advanced to the desk and looked in it.

"It is not here!" he exclaimed.
Not there! They gazed at him, at the desk, at Lionel, half puzzled.

The lawyer, with rapid fingers, began taking out the papers one by one.
"No, it is not here, in either compartment.

I saw it was not, the moment I looked in; but it was well to be sure.

Where has it been put ?" "I really do not know anything about it," answered Lionel, to whom he looked as he spoke.