Varadachariar, J.

1. Much as I sympathise with the plaintiff, I am unable to hold that the circumstances disclosed by the evidence warrant the decree which the lower Court has passed against the defendant. The question is whether the defendant can be charged as a bailee and made liable for the loss of some gold belonging to the plaintiff. The evidence shows that the plaintiff arranged that certain jewels which she desired to be made should be got made by certain goldsmiths working in the defendants house, apparently because there was more convenient accommodation there. The plaintiff admits that she used to attend every day in the defendants house during the time that the goldsmiths were at work. It is true that even according to the defendants written statement he received at the outset two old jewels from the plaintiff for the purpose of being melted into gold and being utilized for the making of the new jewels; but any bailment that could be gathered from that admission must be taken to have come to an end as soon as the plaintiff was put in possession of the melted gold. There is nothing in the evidence to suggest that the gold that thus came into the plaintiffs possession