“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?”