"What is your business?"
"Safemakers."
"How long have you been established?"
"Thirty-seven years."
"Do you recollect filling an order for a safe from Prof. Arnold?"
"I do, sir. It is the first order on our books."
"Are those books in existence to-day?"
"They are, sir," said the old business man, with pride.
"Do you happen to know whether that safe ordered by Prof. Arnold was still used by him at the time of the fire which destroyed his home?"
"I have reason to believe so. I remember seeing it and reminding him of the circumstance in his house within a year."