"All right. I'll have Stafford open an account with you in our bank to-morrow morning, with a credit balance of twelve thousand, and you can check——"
"Pardon me, but if I offer checks on your bank Tandy will suspect our alliance."
"That is true. You must have the greenbacks themselves. I'll send for Stafford now and have him give you the money in large bills to-night."
"Pardon me," answered Temple, "but if I go to him with so great a sum in actual——"
"Yes, I see. That would certainly arouse suspicion. What have you in mind?"
"Why, you or your bank must have banks in correspondence with you, banks in Chicago, or better still, New York?"
"Yes, of course."
"Can you not telegraph to one of them and arrange to have them say in response to a dispatch of inquiry from Tandy's bank, that my credit with them is good for twelve thousand dollars, and that if I wish to make use of some money in Cairo, they will pay my drafts up to that amount?"
"That's it. That will be the best plan in every way. You'll need identification, and I'll arrange that. You're stopping at the hotel, of course?"
"Yes."