He said it was the worst case he had ever heard of--to rob a man so manifestly good and amiable of so great a sum.

Alas! the badness of some people.

It put out the sun! At the hotel he spent a long while in my room, searching, as he said, for 'traces.' Rashid, the host and all his family, and nearly all the servants, thronged the doorway.

After looking into every drawer, and crawling underneath the bed, which he unmade completely, he spent some minutes in debating whether the thief had entered by the window or the door.

Having at last decided for the door, he turned to me and asked if there was anybody I suspected.