.

WINSOR. Show him in.

TREISURE. Robert is in readiness, sir; but I could swear he knows
nothing about it.

WINSOR. All right.

TREISURE re-opens the door, and says "Come in, please." The
INSPECTOR enters, blue, formal, moustachioed, with a peaked cap in
his hand.

WINSOR. Good evening, Inspector. Sorry to have brought you out at this
time of night.

INSPECTOR. Good evenin', sir. Mr WINSOR? You're the owner here, I
think?

WINSOR. Yes. General Canynge.

INSPECTOR. Good evenin', General. I understand, a large sum of money?

WINSOR. Yes. Shall we go straight to the room it was taken from? One
of my guests, Mr De Levis. It's the third room on the left.

CANYNGE. We've not been in there yet, Inspector; in fact, we've done
nothing, except to find out that the stable ladder has not been moved.
We haven't even searched the grounds.

INSPECTOR. Right, sir; I've brought a man with me.

They go out.

CURTAIN. And interval of a Minute.

SCENE II

[The same set is used for this Scene, with the different arrangement
of furniture, as specified.]

The bedroom of DE LEVIS is the same in shape as WINSOR'S
dressing-room, except that there is only one door--to the
corridor. The furniture, however, is differently arranged; a
small four-poster bedstead stands against the wall, Right Back,
jutting into the room. A chair, on which DE LEVIS's clothes are
thrown, stands at its foot. There is a dressing-table against the
wall to the left of the open windows, where the curtains are
drawn back and a stone balcony is seen. Against the wall to the
right of the window is a chest of drawers, and a washstand is
against the wall, Left. On a small table to the right of the bed
an electric reading lamp is turned up, and there is a light over
the dressing-table. The INSPECTOR is standing plumb centre
looking at the bed, and DE LEVIS by the back of the chair at the
foot of the bed. WINSOR and CANYNGE are close to the door, Right
Forward.

INSPECTOR. [Finishing a note] Now, sir, if this is the room as you left
it for your bath, just show us exactly what you did after takin' the
pocket-book from the suit case. Where was that, by the way?

DE LEVIS. [Pointing] Where it is now--under the dressing-table.

He comes forward to the front of the chair, opens the pocket-book,