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The theft being discovered the next day, all
the suspicion attached to those slaves who did not appear. When the cutting out of the bottom
of the chest was noticed, men asked how that could have been done? One of the friends of
Sassia recollected that he had lately seen at an auction, among a lot of very small things, a
crooked and twisted saw sold, with teeth in every direction; and by such an instrument as this
it seemed that the bottom of the chest might have been cut round in the manner in which it
was. To make my story short, inquiry is made of the auctioneer. That saw is found to have
become the property of Strato. When suspicion was
excited in this manner, andStrato was openly
accused, the boy who had been privy to the deed got alarmed; he gave information of the whole
business to his mistress; the men were found in the fishpond; Strato was thrown into prison; and the money, though not all of it, was found in
his shop.
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