“It is to be carried out to-day. I shall give you a check for eighteen hundred dollars, and you will receive the money and come from the bank here.”
“Yes, Cousin David.”
“You will carry the parcel in the left-hand pocket of your sack coat, and if it is taken you can appear to be unconscious of it.”
“Yes.”
“And—that is all you will have to do, except to say that a tall, thin man”—Ralston was short and sturdy—“jostled against you, and must have taken it.”
“All right! I see. And I am to have twenty-five dollars for——”
“Your trouble. Yes.”
“Give it to me now.”
“Wait till you come back. Don’t be afraid. You will get it.”
“All right.”