Leroux will come out by the
Strand end of Bank Chambers' corridor, and walk back with you around the
corner to where the car will be waiting. Perfect?"
"Quite," said Soames, huskily....
But when, some twenty minutes later, he returned to Palace Mansions,
he was a man lost in thought; and he did not entirely regain his wonted
composure, and did not entirely shake off the incubus, Doubt, until in
his own room he had re-counted the contents of the brown paper envelope.
Then:--
"It's safe enough," he muttered; "and it's worth it!"
Thus it came about that, on the following morning, Leroux called him
into the study and gave him just such instructions as Gianapolis had
outlined the evening before.
"I am--er--too busy to go myself, Soames," said Leroux, "and--er--Mrs.
Leroux will shortly be paying a visit to friends in--er--in Paris.
So that I am opening a credit there for her. Save so much
trouble--and--such a lot of--correspondence--international money
orders--and such worrying things. Mr. Smith, the manager, knows you
and you will take this letter of authority. The draft I understand has
already been purchased."
Mr. Soames was bursting with anxiety to learn the amount of this draft,
but could find no suitable opportunity to inquire.
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