The Ghost by Arnold Bennet Chapter 11 Page 5

“I should imagine so.”

“Therefore, as a man of the world, I endeavored to devise a scheme of safeguarding my little cargo.”

“And you — ”

“I devised one.”

“What was it?”

“I took all the jewels out of the case, and put them into my various pockets; and I carried the case to divert attention from those pockets.”

She looked at me, her face at first all perplexity; gradually the light broke upon her.

“Simple, wasn’t it?” I murmured.

“Then the jewels are not stolen?”