In the dining-room no attempt to open the steel safe set in the wall, which contained a vast amount of silver, jewelry, money, and other valuables, had been made.

In a word, wherever they examined the rooms, no sign of any depredations could be discovered.

The burglar did not appear to have lunched in the pantry where some choice viands had been placed.

The robber had certainly been very considerate, and had done no mischief either for plunder or diversion.

He had evidently, in the opinion of Mrs.Passford and her son, undertaken a profitless enterprise.
"But what could have been his object in coming into the house ?" asked the bewildered lady.
"I shall have to give it up, mother." "He might have taken Florry's watch, she was so careless as to leave on the table in the sitting-room," added she.
"But he did not." "He could not have been disturbed until you spoke to him; and he might have ransacked the whole of the lower part of the house." "But he did not." They had given up the examination of the premises, and given up the conundrum, and Christy was leading the way up-stairs.