"If you can prove it, you will have him punished?"
"I hope to deal with him in another way yet."
"Is it not all a terrible complication?"
"I think we shall unravel it," I said hopefully.
Bessie came back then to say that all was ready for me and I rose.
"How shall I ever be able to repay my obligation, Mr. Bastable?"
"I shall manage to get even with you some day, I expect. Bessie will tell you that whenever I do a little thing for her, she has to pay the price, eh Bess?"
"Bessie has already told me lots of things," was the reply.
"Ah, you mustn't believe half she says. She's a born gossip," I answered, and then went off.
The next morning I went early to the Jew's house and found him full of the news of my disappearance. I did not tell him what had occurred, merely that I had had to leave the city and had been detained.