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money drawer as easily as my own. I held it to the 

 light, and saw that it had been filed on one side, 

 and made to fit. Here was a revelation ! I always 

 hate having to accuse servants, but I must know 

 who was the thief. 



" You two are the only people who have been 

 in this room to-night," I said, " except Billy Doo, 

 and he it could not have been." 



"Oh no," they said, "he it could not have been. 

 Some one very clever it is, to have filed that key in 

 such manner." 



Billy Doo stood close by, looking eager and 

 attentive, and examined the key. The next day 

 the police were called in to make inquiries but 

 with no result. The Burra Sahib said, "Dismiss 

 the lot," but it seemed hard, and I wanted to know 

 who did it, so waited to see if the police discovered 

 anything. Billy Doo did not return from his little 

 dinner till the evening, and then what a pickle he 

 was in ! Coat all mud, little trow-trows all torn 

 straight across, with one of the legs hanging loose. 



Reproachfully I exclaimed, " Billy Doo ! what 

 have you been doing ? " 



" Oh," he said, " I have been eating my dinner, 



