bery wass when I read in the papers that the emerald had been stolen. It wass very wonderful—wass it not? At once eferybody—the bolice and others—wass inquiring: 'How did he who took the emerald go in and out where eferything wass locked?' Here where men are all and where men are fery much alike, they said, because they could not understand how it wass done: 'He wass clever—so clever!' And as my friendt, my landlord here, is so clever a man certainly, they said: 'May he not have done this thing?' But I, hafing the mind of the naturalist, I began to inquire of myself first: 'What, indeed, iss the order of intelligence that has done this thing?'
"The very first thing I saw wass that whoever had opened the box had been very, very stupid and had not been afraid. Loudly—
