"Not so. The key turns."
"Impossible!"
"The key turns. I see the three letters."
"The three letters! You see them!"
"Clearly—an R, an O, and a B, that is to say the first three letters of the word Roborey. The safe is open. There's a jewel-case inside it. The man's hand gropes in it ... and takes...."
"What? What? What has he taken?"
"Two earrings."
"Two sapphires, aren't they? Two sapphires?"
"Yes, madame, two sapphires."
Thoroughly upset and moving jerkily, the Countess went quickly out of the room, followed by her husband, and Raoul Davernoie. And Dorothy heard the Count say: