As good as gold

Sorry but this is going to take a while. There are over a fifty boxes and each box has ten to twenty envelopes.

How many houses did he rob?

Around a couple of hundred. Of course some people may not have reported a break-in.

Wow. Couple of hundred. Busy man. And now you've got him he's unemployed?

He was a bad man. Anyway, let's get started, see if any of yours are here. Mostly coins, was it?

Coins and ingots.

Bit of a problem with the classifications. We have medals which might be coins, we have pendants which might also be coins. What else?

Ingots. like this. Here's a sample.

I recall seeing some of those but I think we called them pendants or bars.

How long do you think this will take? I have an appointment at five.

Better cancel it. Probably take three hours plus an hour for writing the report.

Robber caught

Detective Ishibashi of Koganei Central here. Do you remember?

Do indeed. You covered the breakin.

Have some news for you. We caught the fellow.

That is good news.

And we have recovered some things he stole. There’s quite a bit of stuff from the 80 or so houses he went through.

Any chance of getting something back?

That’s what I’m calling about. We hope to return what is identifiable and maybe divide up the money.

Do you need me to come over?

Well, this will take some time. Perhaps a couple of months. There’s a lot of paperwork.