In fact it was twenty to one when he got back. He saw three or four new people sitting in the waiting room. Panting, he leaped into his office, sat down at his writing table and opened the drawer. But the letter was no longer there.
The tumult in his heart almost took his breath away. Who could have been rummaging around his desk? Or was he mistaken? On a whim he opened the other drawers one by one.