ADAM CHERRY.
(He has brought writing materials from sideboard and placed them.) I want you to write a pleasant little note to Ted and Nelly, explaining the circumstances, and enclosing the £4,000, that's all.
MR. BEN DIXON.
Say £2,000, Mr. Cherry—£2,000 and a little something for yourself. I should like to give you a little something for yourself.
ADAM CHERRY.
£4,000—or Bow Street. You'd better be quick. You wouldn't look well with your hair short.
MR. BEN DIXON.
(Gives him a look of intense malevolence and begins to write) '.—"My dear children, before leaving England, under circumstances needless to be stated here, my thoughts naturally revert to my beloved ones."—Mr. Cherry, I consider you to be a damned scoundrel.—"It has all along been my intention to make good to you, my dear children, the loss you sustained when Providence ceased to smile upon the Nonconformist Building Society, Limited (with concentrated rage.) My doing so leaves me a comparative pauper, but do not grieve for me."
ADAM CHERRY.
(Who is standing beside him, looking over.) That's rather needless, isn't it?