Invisible thief

A colleague of mine, Mrs. L. has a unique story to tell. On Nov. 1, 1994, her husband put five banknotes of twenty thousand rupiah each in an envelope in his briefcase. It was closed with a code, the number of which is known to only himself and yet when he woke up in the morning the money was gone.

Theft is out of the question, as his bedroom was closed and locked from the inside, so nobody could have entered the room unseen. This is the forth time such a thing has happened, albeit the other times the amount of money lost was much smaller.

Mrs. L and her husband are both religious people, so they do not believe in black magic or that sort of hocus-pocus, but they are at their wit's end at how to solve this problem. Perhaps one of The Jakarta Post's readers could find a solution to such a mystery.

A. DJUANA

Jakarta