“Now Meidema, do be quiet for a bit!”
“Intercede for Lim Ho! So! they thought to bribe you with a yard or two of silk!”
“No, no Meidema, not only with a yard or two of silk—just open that parcel.”
The inspector tore it open, and, in his excitement he cried, “Where is it?”
The banknotes fell to the ground. Pale and utterly unnerved he picked them up, he opened them, looked at his wife and daughters with a stern look; but he spoke not a word. At length, breaking out into a curse, he crumpled up the whole parcel of samples and notes together into one formless mass as he hoarsely cried: “The devil take that d—d Chinaman! the fellow shall pay for this!” And calling to his servant he cried: “Todrono, have the horses put in!”
Ten seconds later he had dashed out of the room.
CHAPTER XXVI.
NEATLY MANAGED.
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