"Don't you keep any white mice in it?" said the constable, smiling.
"No, sir."
"Don't your mice get out of their houses down stairs, and come up?"
"I have seen two or three of them in the kitchen."
"But don't they go up in your chamber?"
"I never saw any up there," answered Leo, puzzled by these singular inquiries.
"What would you say if I told you that a couple of them had made a nest in your chest up stairs, and had a litter of little ones there?"
"I don't know what I should say. I don't know that it would be very strange."
"Should you deny it?"
"If you saw them there I should not, though I don't see how they could get into the chest. The lid is always closed."