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Bommaney had been horribly cut up about something, even before he heard the news the young solicitor had to give him. But was he so disturbed as to be likely to forget where he had last secured so considerable a sum of money? This mental inquiry naturally set young Mr. Barter to work to discover how considerable the sum of money actually was.
'God help you! said Philip with a choking voice. 'You'll shake hands, won't you, Phil? 'said the old man. Phil took the proffered hand. 'It's something, said Bommaney the elder, clinging to him, 'to feel an honest man's hand again, God bless you, Phil! God bless you! Philip stood silent, and the old man, with another shame-stricken glance upon him, moved away.
At bottom, Philip Bommaney knew himself too well to be at all sure that this phase of feeling would endure with him; and in a half-conscious dread of the return of that baser self, whose first appearance in his history had so affrighted him, he hurriedly attired himself for out-of-doors, crammed the bundle of notes into an inner pocket of his overcoat, and, after a final appeal to the decanter, left his room with a somewhat hysteric sense of courage and self-approval.
Bommaney sadly, and sighed as if he suddenly recalled an idea that sighing was a duty. 'Come in, Mr. Bommaney, he said. 'Come in, sir. I have sent home all the clerks, and was just about to lock up for the night. To what do I owe the pleasure of this visit? Let me light the gas.
I myself will pay the fare. I won't travel with that cackling idiot. 'I will go with Mr. Bommaney with pleasure, said the penitent. 'I'll go with you with pleasure anywhere. I'd rather go with you a great deal. It was hardly to be expected that Philip should feel very warmly towards either of his two companions, but of the two he misliked Steinberg the less.
'They were stopped at the Bank, I know, because I saw the advertisement. It wouldn't be easy to get rid of them. 'There are ways and means, sir, said Hornett. 'They'd have to be disposed of at a loss, of course a heavy loss and kept quiet for a considerable time. 'Have you heard of any of them coming into circulation? asked Bommaney.
'Hush! said Bommaney. 'Don't call me by that name. Come away from here. A policeman strolled along the street, with an echoing tread, and as the two slunk past him he turned a casual glance upon them. The glance touched them like a galvanic shock, and they would have run if they had had courage for such an indiscretion.
Bommaney, the door being closed behind him, stumbled along the darkened passage after the more assured and accustomed steps of young Mr. Barter, and the inner office being gained, and the gas being lighted, allowed himself to be motioned to a chair.
'To settle, he said absently. Then, rousing himself with an effort, 'I thought you hated London? 'Ah, my boy, said his visitor, 'when you're in the shafts with a whip behind you, you've got to go where you are driven. 'Yes, said Bommaney mechanically, 'that is so. That is so.
'By Jove, I did! He stood aside, with an outstretched hand, and motioned Bommaney to examine the contents of the safe. There was a parchment there, there were half a dozen bundles of documents tied in pink tape and docketed; but there were no bank-notes. 'You know, said Bommaney, with a fretful wail, 'I must have left them here; I couldn't have left them anywhere else. I put it to you could I?
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