four-fifty-six

Updated: July 11, 2025

Never had I clearer vision of the man he might have been but for the kink in his nature which had made him what he was. "The promissory note was for four-fifty-six," said he, "and this sudden demand was for the lot less the hundred you had paid?" "That's it." "What did you do?" I asked, not to seem behind Raffles in my grasp of the case.

E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung - Mr. Justice Raffles