If you will allow me, I will go back to one of the sleeping rooms and fetch two or three thick rugs." He hurried away, and in a few minutes returned.

The bags were transferred from the chest to one of the rugs he had brought, which was then wrapped round and tied into a bundle.

On two other rugs were placed heaps of necklaces and other ornaments from the larger chests, until each contained, as nearly as Roger could guess by lifting them, some sixty pounds' weight of gold ornaments.

These were similarly tied up, and the three bundles were then carried out from the hidden room, and conveyed to the apartment they had before left.
Roger then went back to the treasury, closed the copper door, swept up and placed in a rug every particle of plaster, and then swung the cabinet back into its position, where it fastened with a loud click.

So firmly was it fixed that, although Roger tried with his whole strength, it did not shake in the slightest; and the work was so admirably done that, from the closest inspection, he was unable to discern aught that would have shown that the cabinet was not built into the wall.