"I know. I was anxious to raise no false hopes. All the same, I couldn't help feeling that half a million francs were worth a tenpenny wire. Therefore I telegraphed to Jonah. His answer will show whether that tenpenny wire was worth half a million francs."
My wife snatched the form from my hand and tore it open.
It was very short.
Bonds repurchased Jonah.
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But my memory never recovered from the two-fold slight.
To this day I cannot remember to ask Adèle what it was that she had been about to say when the first tire burst outside Bidache.
CHAPTER X
HOW BERRY SOUGHT COMFORT IN VAIN, AND NOBBY SLEPT UPON A QUEEN'S BED.
Time was getting on.