"And you handed them to Mr. Lazarus?"
"I did; at half-past five--he put them in his safe."
"Were there any other valuables in the safe?"
"I don't know," retorted Keith coldly; "I was not in the confidence of my employer."
"Do you know?" said Naball, turning to Ezra.
The young Jew smiled bitterly.
"I also was not in my father's confidence," he said, "so know nothing."
"There was some gold and silver money also in the safe," said Keith to Naball, knocking the ashes off his cigarette.
"Humph! that's not much guide," replied the detective; "it's the notes I want--if I could only find the numbers of those notes--where did they come from?"
"A man at Ballarat, called Forbes."