"
"Some servant--some member of your family?"
"I tell you, Senor, not one person in all the world knew that
combination except myself," Senor Rodriguez insisted.
"Your secretary--a servant--some member of your family might have seen
you unlock the safe some time, and thus learned the combination?"
Senor Rodriguez did not quite know whether to be annoyed at Mr. Grimm's
persistence, or to admire the tenacity with which he held to this one
point.
"You must understand, Senor Grimm, that many state documents are kept
in the safe," he said finally, "therefore it is not advisable that any
one should know the combination. I have made it an absolute rule, as did
my predecessors here, never to unlock the safe in the presence of
another person."
"State documents!" Mr. Grimm's lips silently repeated the words. Then
aloud: "Perhaps there's a record of the combination somewhere? If you
had died suddenly, for instance, how would the safe have been opened?"
"There would have been only one way, Senor--blow it open. There is no
record."
"Well, if we accept all that as true," observed Mr. Grimm musingly, "it
would seem that you either didn't put the money into the safe at all,
or--please sit down, there's nothing personal in this--or else the money
was taken out of the safe without it being unlocked.
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