"All right. Go on as quickly as possible. I will keep you in view."
All this took a little time.
Talbot, whose conscience was uneasy, and with good cause, awaited Dan's arrival very anxiously.
"What made you so long?" he asked.
"A man tried to rob me."
"Did he succeed?" asked Talbot, quickly.
"No; he was recognized by a policeman, who arrested him as he was on the point of attacking me."
Talbot asked no further questions, considerably to Dan's relief, for he did not wish to mention the detective if it could be avoided.
The book-keeper contented himself with saying, in a preoccupied tone, as he received the money:
"You can't be too careful when you have much money about you. I am almost sorry I sent for this money," he proceeded. "I don't think I shall need to use it to-day."