Those six sets of silver haunted him.⁠—They were there.⁠—A few paces distant.⁠—Just as he was traversing the adjoining room to reach the one in which he then was, the old servant-woman had been in the act of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.⁠—He had taken careful note of this cupboard.⁠—On the right, as you entered from the dining-room.⁠—They were solid.⁠—And old silver.⁠—From the ladle one could get at least two hundred francs.⁠—Double what he had earned in nineteen years.⁠—It is true that he would have earned more if “the administration had not robbed him .”