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opened
and cleaned the office,
Office, and it was only on the chest being opened
that
he remembered that he had not seen Asuri that morning, my suspicions against the absent Coolie were further strengthened by the fact that from his long connection with
the office
and his experience of the practice of Collecting the market rents, the same into the Colonial Treasury and paying on the 10th day of each month, he must have been fully aware that the largest accumulation of Money in the Chest would necessarily be on the night which he selected for Committing the robbery.
As the Chest was not broken open,
but was found locked in the morning after the robbery the question naturally arises as to the means by which the robbery was effected.
There are two keys to the chest,
one of which is kept by the Shroff - himself whose duty it is to Collect and pay all monies belonging to the office, the other being kept by myself, but which has never been used ever since it has remained in my possession, and which on the day of the discovery of the robbery I found in the same place in which it has remained for nearly 3 years, namely in the bottom of my office despatch box which accompanies me daily to and from office.