Certainly not. The banker had not opened the safe till after his return from the barber's shop, where he had reproved his clerk, and Fitz did not go near the safe during the sharp interview in the office.
"Burnet," said the banker, going to the open window.
This time the elderly man, to whom Leo Maggimore had applied, presented himself.
"Have you seen the key of my safe?" demanded Mr. Checkynshaw.
"No, sir."
"Where is it, then?"
"I do not know, sir," replied Burnet, whose communications were always "yea, yea; nay, nay."
"I have discharged Fitz."
Burnet bowed.
"He was saucy."