"Take care not to let your worthy relative know you have so much money, or he will want you to give it up to him."
"But for you I should not have recovered it," said Scott, gratefully.
"I am very glad to have been the means of your getting it back. I have a personal grudge against that rascal."
"Of how much did he rob you?"
"I can't tell precisely, for I am rather careless about my money, and seldom know just how much I have. To the best of my knowledge he must have taken about three hundred dollars."
"That is a good deal of money."
"It was much less to me than the sum he took was to you. It did not especially inconvenience me. But it is getting late, and we had better take the next boat back to New York."
This they did. On the same boat, though they were unconscious of it, was Crawford Lane. He saw them, however, and reflected bitterly that the fifty dollars which he had taken from Scott was nearly all gone, though it was only the second day since he got possession of it.
It was half-past four when they reached the Gilsey House.