A Question of Trust Summary
Horace Denby was a good man. He was fifty years old but still unmarried. Horace Denby was a locksmith. He was a very successful businessman. He had two assistants to assist him. Being nice and respected, but he was not completely honest. He was fond of rare and expensive books. Bought them at any cost. For this, he looted the vault only once a year. He bought these books secretly through an agent. Before committing the robbery, he carried out the plan well. This time he inspected the house at the Showover Grange for two weeks. He also studied minute things about that house.
The family was now in London. Two caretaker servants of the house had gone to the movies. He jumped from behind the garden wall and came inside the house. He took the key from the kitchen door hook. Then, he wore gloves. He opened the door. He was very careful not to leave any fingerprints. There was a vase of flowers on the table. The scent of the flowers tickled her nose. He sneezes again and again, he hears the voice of a young woman. She pretends to be the wife of the owner of that house. She told him that she had suddenly come there because she wanted her jewelry to be worn at the party at night.
Denby pleaded with the woman to let her go home. He asked her to open the jewelry because she needed the jewelry but forgot the number. Denby voluntarily opened the vault without gloves. The woman received jewelry. Horace Denby left happily as he survived going to jail. On the third day, a policeman arrested him for jewel robbery at Shotover Grange.
His fingerprints were found on the plundered site. He confessed that he had opened the vault for the young wife of the owner of the house. But in fact, the owner's wife was about sixty years old. He said that the story was not true. Nobody believed Dunby. Now, the police arrested him. He was an assistant librarian in prison. He always thought of the attractive, young woman who was in the same profession as she was. Now he did not think of respect among the thieves.
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