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Updated: August 31, 2025
You do not expect me to believe that you do not know what is in that sealed envelope? Bah! It is a child's game, that, and we play as men with men." Laverick shook his head. "Your offer," he asked, "what is it exactly?" "Twenty thousand pounds," the man answered. "The document is worth no more than that to you.
His fingers were trembling, but it was with relief. The note was from Morrison. "There is no address here," he remarked. "The gent said as I was to take you back with me," the boy answered. "Is it far?" Laverick asked. "Close to Red Lion Square," the boy declared. "Not more nor five minutes in one of them taxicabs. The gent said we was to take one. He is in a great hurry to see you."
Bellamy nodded. "In a few days," he said, "I shall take you with me to a friend of mine a Cabinet Minister. You shall tell him the story exactly as you've told it to me, and restore the money." Laverick laughed like a child. "Don't think I'm mad," he apologized, "but I am not a person like you, Bellamy, used to adventures and this sort of wild happenings.
His hands were encased in cat's-skin sable gloves, showing that he was a gentleman who liked to be comfortable. Thus accoutred, he rode down Broad Street at Laverick Wells, looking like a fine, faithful old family servant, with a slight scorbutic affection of the nose. He had everything correctly arranged in true sporting marching order.
This, too, she opened, and drew out several sheets of foreign note-paper pinned together at the top. These she glanced through until she came to the third or fourth. Then she bent it down and passed it across the table to Laverick. "You may read that," she said. "It is part of a report which I have had in my pos session since Wednesday morning."
They were on opposite sides of the small round table which stood in the centre of the apartment. "What do you mean?" he demanded hoarsely. "Isn't it plain enough?" she exclaimed. "You came to my rooms a week or so ago, a terrified, broken-down man. If ever there was guilt in a man's face, it was in yours. You sent for Laverick. He pitied you and helped you away.
Every document seemed to be scanned and as rapidly discarded. At last he found something which interested him. He held it up and paused in his search. Laverick heard a little breath come though his teeth, and with a thrill he recognized the paper as one which he had torn from a memorandum tablet and upon which he had written down the address which Mademoiselle Idiale had given him.
There is money to be made there if one has something to make a start with." "There will be some more money to come to you," Laverick answered, "probably a great deal more. I shall place our affairs in the hands of an accountant, and shall have an estimate drawn up to yesterday. You shall have every penny that is due to you. You have quite enough, however, to get there with.
If a policeman had come in sight up or down the street, he had decided to call him and to acquaint him with what had happened. It was the one chance he held against himself, the gambler's method of decision, perhaps, unconsciously arrived at. As it turned out, there was still not a soul in sight. Laverick opened the outer door with his latchkey, let himself in and closed it.
I should have felt it my duty to have revealed at once the fact of your deposit. At the same time, the inquiry comes from an even more important source, a source which cannot be ignored." Laverick thought for a moment. "After all, the matter is a very simple one," he declared. "By four o'clock this afternoon my account shall be within its limits.
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