Volume Two—Chapter Eleven.
Getting Near the Edge.
“Quite out of the question,” said James Thickens.
“But what is there to fear?”
“I don’t know that there is anything to fear,” said Thickens dryly. “What I know is this, and I’ve thought it over. You are not going up to town with him, but by yourself, to get this money—if you still mean it.”
“I still mean it! There, go on.”
“Well, you will go up, and sign what you have to sign, get this money in notes, and bring it down yourself.”
“But Hallam will think it so strange—that I mistrust him.”
“Of course he will. So you do; so do I. And after thinking this matter over, I am going to have that money deposited here, and I’m going to redeem the bonds and deeds myself, getting all information from Hallam.”