“And what else?”
“Larkspur.”
“Where is my money?”
“With your notary; but you invest it so as not to lose the interest of a single day.”
“Yes, but where is the money that I keep for my monthly expenses?”
“You put it in a large book bound in red, entitled ‘Pandects of Justinian, Vol. II.’ between the last two leaves; the book is on the shelf of folios above the glass buffet. You have a whole row of them. Your money is in the last volume next to the salon—See! Vol. III. is before Vol. II.—but you have no money, it is all in—”
“—thousand-franc notes,” said the doctor.
“I cannot see, they are folded. No, there are two notes of five hundred francs.”
“You see them?”
“Yes.”