nothing out of him. Mrs. Morowitch was the only person with her,
husband at the time."

There was something in his tone that made me take particular note
of this last fact, especially as he paused for an instant.

"Now, perhaps there would be nothing surprising about it all, so
far at least, were it not for the fact that the following
morning, when his junior partner, Mr. Kahan, opened the place of
business, or rather went to it, for it was to remain closed, of
course, he found that during the night someone had visited it.
The lock on the great safe, which contained thousands of dollars'
worth of diamonds, was intact; but in the top of the safe a huge
hole was found--an irregular, round hole, big enough to put your
foot through. Imagine it, Professor Kennedy, a great hole in a
safe that is made of chrome steel, a safe that, short of a
safety-deposit vault, ought to be about the strongest thing on
earth.

"Why, that steel would dull and splinter even the finest
diamond-drill before it made an impression. The mere taking out
and refitting of drills into the brace would be a most lengthy
process. Eighteen or twenty hours is the time by actual test
which it would take to bore such a hole through those laminated
plates, even if there were means of exerting artificial pressure.
As for the police, they haven't even a theory yet."

"And the diamonds"

"All gone--everything of any value was gone. Even the