"If you do, I will send an officer after you. In my opinion, you and Whippleton have been altering the books to suit your own purposes."
"It looks so, after I have called your attention to these invoices—don't it, sir?" I replied, with becoming indignation.
"Why didn't you speak of them before, then?"
"Because I was not sure that anything was wrong till last night."
"Pray what did you discover last night?" asked the senior, with a palpable sneer.
"I discovered that Mr. Whippleton was very anxious to raise a large sum of money. This morning I told him squarely what I thought he had been doing, but he promised to convince me that it was all right this afternoon. But in spite of all he said, I told you about the invoices this forenoon."
"You didn't speak soon enough."
"While you are reproaching me, Mr. Whippleton is raising money on the notes of the firm."
"And you want to desert me!"
"I do, when I am accused of being concerned in his frauds."