He fingered them.
They seemed to grow to his finger.
He lusted after them.
He said to himself, “The matter has gone too far to stop; I must go on borrowing this money of the Dodds, and make it the basis of a large fortune: it will be best for all parties in the end.”
He put It into his pocket-book; that pocket-book into his breast-pocket; and passed by his private door into the house, and to his dressing-room.
Ten minutes later he left the house with a little black bag in his band.
CHAPTER XX
“WHAT will ye give me, and I'll tell ye?” said Maxley to Alfred Hardie.
“Five pounds.”