“No; go ahead.”
“Do you think anyone could have been in hiding in this room while you were here?”
“I think not. Madame de Berriot was as nervous as a cat, she kept glancing in every direction.”
“Was the safe open or closed?”
“The outside closet door was closed, so the one to the safe had to be shut.”
“Why did you not keep the $10,000 in the safe?”
“I had forgotten the combination.” Then, as he saw Dick’s look of incredulity, he added: “I never can remember the complicated numbers; so for convenience I wrote the word ‘safe’ and the numbers of the combination down in a small memorandum book when I first took this house. I seldom open the safe as Clark attends to it for me.”
“Why didn’t you ask your secretary for the combination, or look it up in your book?”
“I forgot to ask Clark until after he had gone,” explained the Attorney General patiently, “and when I looked for the book it was not in its place.”
“Indeed. Where do you usually keep it?”