“Whatever is necessary.”
“That’s vague. Put it into figures.”
“Five hundred pounds; seven hundred; a thousand if need be.”
“It will not cost you a thousand, and it may come to more than five hundred. Place the thousand to my credit, and I shall return what is left. I must go at once to Paris and carry out my plans from that city.”
“Then you have thought out a scheme. What is it?”
“I have not only thought it out, but most of the arrangements are already made. I cannot say more about it. You will have to trust wholly to me.”
“There is a good deal of money at stake, Miss Baxter, and our reputation as a newspaper as well. I think I should know what you propose to do.”
“Certainly. I propose to obtain for you an accurate description of the ball, written by one who was present.”
The editor gave utterance to a sort of interjection that always served him in place of a laugh.
“In other words, you want neither interference nor advice.”