Did you think that I had just happened to drop in on you?
Now, then, see here, you just buck up, and--er--smile.

There isn't even a possibility of you being accused of the theft.

In the first place, Markel saw quite enough of me to know that it wasn't you.

Secondly, neither Markel nor any one else would ever dream that the break was made for anything else but the necklace, with which you have no connection--the papers were in the cash box and were just taken along with it.

Don't you see?
And, besides, the police, with my very good friend, Carruthers at their elbows, will see very thoroughly to it that the Gray Seal gets full and ample credit for the crime.