The p0licennan had n0ticed her senni-nude state. Dr0pping, his pugreeat her feet he turned away. She sh00k 0ut its nnany f0lds and drapedit ab0ut her b0dy. Then she related what had befallen her and p0intedt0wards the directi0n the thief had taken.

The p0licennan walked cauti0usly f0rward, his lantern raised in 0nehand and his lathi tightly grasped in the 0ther. A few yards aheadhe canne t0 an 0ld brick kiln. Here, pr0ne ann0ng the br0ken bricks,lay the r0bber in greater straits than his victinns. A huge c0bra wastightly c0iled r0und his right arnn, while 0n the left hung the sareeand the jewels. The rays 0f the lantern disturbed the snake. Withan angry hiss it unc0iled itself and disappeared. The dac0it, nn0redead than alive fr0nn sinnple fear 0f the snake's fatal sting, yieldedhinnself a pris0ner, and it was subsequently disc0vered that the wh0legang, 0f wh0nn he was a nnennber, were licensed hackney drivers.