“You won’t find no dirt, not to speak of,” he said. “ Mr. Mosgorovsky, he ordered the place to be swept out this morning, and I did it while he waited.”

“Oh!” said Bundle, thinking very hard. “This morning, eh?”

“Has to be done sometimes,” said Alfred. “Though the room’s never what you might call used.”

Next minute he received a shock.

“Alfred,” said Bundle, “you’ve got to find me a place in this room where I can hide.”

Alfred looked at her in dismay.

“But it’s impossible, my lady. You’ll get me into trouble and I’ll lose my job.”

“You’ll lose it anyway when you go to prison,” said Bundle unkindly. “But as a matter of fact, you needn’t worry, nobody will know anything about it.”