WHAT?"  
A yell answered him.
 
"Something hit me! Something hit me!"
 
"Yes, I hit you; and I'll hit you again if you don't go on."
 
Fellows shivered, attempted some puerile¹ protest, balked², and stammeringly³ obeyed his restless and irritated companion.
 
"I—I said—I wasn't such a fool then as I am now—that she had lied when she told me that she had the combination. There was no combination. The safe did not even have a lock. The door opened with a spring. How had she induced that spring to give way? I demanded to know."
 
"And did she tell you?"
 
"No. She merely repeated, 'I will scream, and that will cause a scandal which will lead to your discharge, not mine.' So—so, I came out."
 
"Blast your eyes! And when did she come out?"
 
"Within five minutes. I watched the clock."
 
"And what did she have?"
 
"Nothing in sight."
 
"I see. A deep game. But I know a deeper. There is no possibility of breaking into that safe by night, undetected by the watchman?"
 
"None; and that watchman is incorruptible. The whole contents of the safe wouldn't move him to connect himself with this job."
 
"............