"Well, I came again, just the same, to-day, by appointment. Just the same I sat in that place, and just the same Denson took the case into the inner room. 'He's come to buy this time, I can see,' Denson whispers, and winks. 'But he'll fight hard over the price. We'll see!' and off he goes into the other room. Well, I waited. I waited and I waited a long time. I looked out sideways at the window, and there I see the American's big wideawake hat hanging up just inside the other window, same as last time. So I think they are a long time settling the price, and I wait some more. But it is such a very long time, and I begin to feel uneasy. Of course, I know you cannot sell fifteen t'ousant wort' of tiamonts in five minutes--that is not reasonable pishness. But I could hear nothing at all now--not a sound. And the boy--the boy that came down to call me up--he wasn't come back. But there I could see the big wideawake hat still hanging inside the window, and of course I knew there was only one door out of the inner room, right before me, so it seemed foolish to be uneasy. So I waited longer still, but now it was so late, I thought they should have come out to lunch before this, and then I was fery uneasy--fery uneasy inteet. So I thought I would pretend to be a new caller, and I opened the outer office door and banged it, and walked in very loud and knocked on the boy's table. I thought Denson would come when he heard that, but no--there was not a sound. So I got more uneasy, and I opened the window and leaned out as far as I could, to look in at the other window. There I could see nothing but the big hat and the back of a chair and a bit of the room--empty. So I went and banged the outer door again, and called out, 'Hi! Mr. Denson, you're wanted! Hi! d'y'ear?' and knocked with my umbrella on the inner door; and, Mr. Hewitt--you might have knocked me down with half a feather when I got no answer at all--not a sound! I opened the door, Mr. Hewitt, and there was nobody there--nobody! There was my leather case on the table, open--and empty! Fifteen t'ousant pounds in tiamonts, Mr. Hewitt--it ruins me!" Hewitt rose, and flung wide the inner office door. "This is certainly the only door," he said, "and that is the only window--quite well in view from where you sat. There is the wideawake hat still hanging there--see, it is quite new; obviously brought for you to look at, it would seem. The door and the window were not used, and the chimney is impossible--register grate. But there was one other way--there." The inner wall of each of the rooms was the wall of the corridor into which all the offices opened, and this corridor was lighted--and the offices partly ventilated--by a sort of hinged casement or fanlight close up by the ceiling, oblong, and extending the most of the length of each room. Plainly an active man, not too stout, might mount a chair-back, and climb very quietly through the opening. "That's the only way," said Hewitt, pointing.