As he passed the table--James's table--he rested the hand which carried the keys on it, and left them there.

James pounced upon them and slipped them into his pocket noiselessly.

Mr.Emblem returned to his own chair and thought nothing of the keys for an hour and a half by the clock, and during this period James was out on business.

When Mr.Emblem remembered his keys, he felt for them in their usual place and missed them, and then began searching about and cried out to James that he had lost his bunch of keys.
"Why, sir," said James, bringing them to him, after a little search, and with a very red face, "here they are; you must have left them on my table." And in this way the job was done..