“I have told you I would,” replied the curate coldly. “And at once?”
“At once.”
“You will have to bring me the money. No, you must go up to town with me, and we can redeem the papers. It will be better so.”
“As you will,” said Bayle. “I have told you that I will help you, will put myself at your service. I will let you know when I can be ready. Rest assured I shall waste no time in removing as much of this shadow as I can from above their heads.”
He met Hallam’s eyes as he spoke, just as the latter had been furtively Measuring, as it were, his height and strength, and then they parted.
End of Volume One.