"Search the room."
"Don't move, ladies, or we'll handcuff you."
"No need of that ignominy," said the girl.
They made a thorough and painstaking search of the place, but failed to meet with any success and finally gave it up.
The diamonds remained missing.
Both were greatly puzzled.
Suddenly an idea occurred to Harry and he cried:
"The hall-boy!"
"What about him?" asked his partner.
"He may have carried off the parcel."