Chapter 35
HE looked round; they were alone. Bennett had gone back to his room to find a key that Dicker had asked for. By an extreme effort of will, Mr. Coleman regained some of his old self-possession.
"Things like that annoy me," he said. "Losing other people's property... I ought to have returned it when you told me...."
"Yes, I think so. Are you sure it is gone?"
Dicker flashed his lamp into the hole suggestively, and, going on his knees, Mr. Coleman peered down. He was there for a long time, and when he arose there was a look in his eyes which Jimmy could not understand.
"Yes, it is gone," said Coleman in a quiet voice, and looked round helplessly.
For the second time that week the house was searched from garret to cellar, but nothing further was missing. Not so much as a silve
