"Very well, sir, you shall satisfy yourself. Here are my keys, and the safe is in that room built into the wall, and guarded as no other private safe is guarded in this city."
Jack pulled out his watch and said:
"It is after eleven o'clock; I may be hours. Will you trust me alone here until morning?"
"I will."
"Then you will retire?"
"I will, but if you do find the letter arouse me. But nonsense, you will never find it."
"I will never be satisfied until I have at least made a search for it. The document is too important to be passed over as lost by one who only looked for it. I will make a search, and, sir, I have a strange, weird premonition that I will find it."
"Then, sir, you would only be doing your duty if you hung me by the neck until I should die."
"We will not punish you as severely as that."
The detective was left alone with the safe and the keys in his possession, and as he opened the safe a feeling came over him as though he were really opening the doors of a tomb. Jack removed every article from the safe; removed every drawer and piled them on a table which he had placed for the purpose. It was evident that indeed he intended to make a search.