I went back there"-- pointing to a bureau of drawers behind him--"and put the paper hastily in, and locked it in, returning the keys to my pocket.

The man had not stepped over the threshold of the door then; he was a little taken to, I fancy, at his having burst the door, and he stood there staring." "Could he have got at it afterwards ?" asked Jan.
"It is, I say, an impossibility.

He never was within a yard or two of the bureau; and, if he had been, the place was firmly locked.

That man it certainly was not.

Nobody has been in the room since, save myself, and you for a few minutes to-day when I called you in.