"There is nothing for you to add about Maud?"
"No. I have told you all candidly."
The young man seized Grey by the throat, and pulled him upon his feet. For a moment he swayed the banker to and fro.
"Not this. Fire if you are a man. Not this."
"Damnation seize you for a fool! You terrified me about nothing." He flung Grey violently from him.
"About nothing! I told you all her money is gone."
"And when did I tell you I wanted her money?"
"You never said anything to me about it."
"You are a fool, sir, and have terrified me for nothing."
Sir William stooped down, picked up the revolver, which had fallen from his hand in the scuffle, and raising the window quietly dropped it into the Weeslade. Then turning to the banker he said: