"You know you're asking me to do what I've no right to do?" said Charles gloomily.
"I know, my boy, and it is very bitter for me to have to ask it. But I can't get away without your help, and the alternative is not pleasant to think of—for either of us.... I do not ask more than I would willingly have done for you if the positions were reversed.... On the whole, I do not think I have been a bad father to you. Circumstances, indeed, have been too strong for me at the end, but—"
"I am willing to do what you want—and more, on one condition."
"What is that? Anything in reason—"
"I will provide you with funds to get away, and I will send you three hundred pounds each year—"
"Good lad!"
"On condition that you hand over to me all the property you've got stowed away—"
"Damn!"
"So that I may hand it over to your creditors."
"Why not write at once to Scotland Yard and tell them where I am? But, after all, I'm not sure that even your world would applaud so filial an act as that."