"Shut up."
He would write to Loding and tell him that he would be no party to his criminal schemes.
"And waste all that knowledge? All that training?"
"I should never have started it."
"But you did start it. You finished it. You are primed to the gills with knowledge worth a fortune. You can't waste it, surely!"
Loding would have to whistle for that fifty per cent. How could he ever have thought of letting himself be an instrument in the hands of a crook like Loding!
"A very amusing and intelligent crook. On the highest level of crookery. Nothing to be ashamed of, believe me."
He would go to a travel agency to-morrow morning and get a berth out of the country. Anywhere out of the country.
"I thought you wanted to stay in England?"
He would put the sea between him and temptation.