"I should like to see that window, my lord.
But one moment! Was there anything of value--I mean, jewels or money or anything of that kind--in the safe ?" "Not that I'm aware of," replied Heyton, almost instantly; but he had had time to consider the question.

"There may have been, of course.

Not jewels, because my father kept the family diamonds at the bank." "That's something to be thankful for, my lord," said the Inspector, with an approving shake of the head.

"Quite the proper thing to do.

There wouldn't be half the burglaries, if the gentry didn't leave their jewels about in the way they do.