"Good-bye."
On the Wednesday morning following, an elderly gentleman, dressed in rather an antiquated fashion, but boasting an appearance of great respectability, drove up in a brougham to the branch of the United Kingdom Bank in Oxford Street, and presented a cheque for no less a sum than forty-five thousand pounds, signed with the names of Septimus O'Grady, James Maguire, and Patrick Rooney, and bearing the date of the preceding Friday.
The cheque was in perfect order, and, in spite of the largeness of the amount, it was cashed without hesitation.
That afternoon Klimo received a visit from Mrs. Jeffreys. She came to express her gratitude for his help, and to ask the extent of her debt.
"You owe me nothing but your gratitude. I will not take a half-penny. I am quite well enough rewarded now," said Klimo with a smile.
When she had gone he took out his pocket-book and consulted it.
"Forty-five thousand pounds," he said with a chuckle. "Yes, that is good. I did not take her money, but I have been rewarded in another way."
Then he went into Porchester House and dressed for the Garden Party at Marlborough House, to which he had been invited.
CHAPTER VI.
A VISIT IN THE NIGHT.