Wait a little,

　　"Yes."

　　"Were they all fastened this morning?"

　　"Yes."

　　"You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarkedto your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?""Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and whomay have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet."

　　"I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her sweetheart,and that the two may have planned the robbery."

　　"But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the bankerimpatiently, "When I have told you that I saw Arthur with thecoronet in his hands?"

　　"Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About thisgirl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I presume?""Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night Imet her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom.""Do you know him?"

　　"Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round.His name is Francis Prosper."

　　"He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door-that is to say,farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?""Yes, he did."

　　"And he is a man with a wooden leg?"

　　Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive blackeyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you knowthat?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in Holmes'sthin, eager face.

　　"I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shallprobably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps I hadbetter take a look at the lower windows before I go up."He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at thelarge one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. This heopened and made a very careful examination of the sill with hispowerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," said he at last.The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little chamber,with a gray carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. Holmes wentto the bureau first and looked hard at the lock.

　　"Which key was used to open it?" he asked.

　　"That which my son himself indicated-that of the cupboard of thelumber room."