He would know very well that that is the last place to find it now." The Duke went on into the drawing-room.

At the door Guerchard stopped and said: "I will just go and post my men, your Grace." "Very good," said the Duke; and he went into the drawing-room.
He sat down, lighted a cigarette, and yawned.

Then he took out his watch and looked at it.
"Another twenty minutes," he said..