Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Inspector: [Sharply] Are you sure there was nobody in the room already?
De Levis: [Taken aback] I don’t know. I never thought. I didn’t look under the bed if you mean that.
Inspector: [Jotting I Did not look under bed. Did you look under it after the theft?
De Levis: No. I didn’t.
Inspector: Ah! Now, what did you do after you came back from your bath? Just give us that precisely.

(i) What reply did De Levis give to the inspector’s last question in the extract? 
(ii) What made De Levis check the contents of his pocketbook? What did he find there?
Whom did he go to upon discovering the theft? 
(iii) Who was Robert? Where was Robert’s room? At what time did he take De Levis’ clothes and boots? 
(iv) What is the Inspector’s final theory of the theft? 
(v) Whom did De Levis accuse of stealing his money? What were his reasons for making this accusation? 

Answer 1

(i) De Levis told the inspector that after he came back from the bath he locked the door and left the key there only. Then he put back the bath sponge, took off his dressing gown and puts it on the bars at the lower end of the bedstead. After this, he drew the curtains of the windows back.
(ii) De Levis had a feeling that his pocketbook was thinner than it was previously, so he checked its content. He found that the notes have been replaced by shaving papers. He went to Mr. Winsor after he discovered the theft.
(iii) Robert was a footman, who look after the clothes of Mr. De Levis.
Robert’s room was on the ground floor at the extreme end of the house where he lives with other two servants.
Robert took De Levis’s clothes and boots at Ten O’clock.
(iv) According to inspector’s final theory, the thief walked into the room through the creeper before the door was locked, probably while dinner was going on and was under the bed and then he escaped by jumping from the balcony.
(v) De Levis accused Captain Ronald Dancy of stealing his money. De Levis told Canynge that the distance from the railing of his balcony to the railing of Dancy’s balcony is just seven feet, which anybody chp jump (if he cab jumps to a narrow bookcase at four feet high while standing on the floor).
De Levis also told to Canynge to see the crushed and broken creeper lying in the balcony, which is proof that someone has stood on them to jump back to his balcony.