"A cheque?" She repeated the word and seemed to hesitate. "I should have to write my name on it, should I not?"
"Yes."
During the pause which followed, Marion seemed to be reviewing the aspects of the transaction.
"The name of the person to whom I give it?" she asked at last, and she seemed to avoid his glance.
"Yes," answered Brett, surprised at the inexperience betrayed by the question, "unless you cashed it yourself and took the money in notes."
"No," said Mrs. Darche, as firmly as before. "I want the notes here, please. What I want you to do, is to take enough bonds and get the money for me. I do not care to know anything else about it, because I shall not understand."
"I suppose I ought not to be inquisitive, my dear friend," replied Brett after a little hesitation, "but I ought to tell you what you do not seem to realise, that a hundred thousand dollars is a great deal of money and that you ought not to keep such a sum in the house."
"I do not mean to keep it in the house. It is to be taken away immediately."
"I see."
He concluded that the money was to be taken from the house by John Darche, and he determined to prevent such a result if possible.