'I say, Everard,' he exclaimed as soon as he reached me, 'how much do you think?'
'Did you get the twenty-five shillings?' I asked.
'Two pounds——' began Jacintha, dismounting from her bicycle.
'Let me tell him,' cried Dick. 'Two pounds three and sixpence,' he added with an air of triumph.
'I am most awfully obliged to you,' I said, as he took a purse from his jacket pocket.
'Not so bad,' he continued, 'is it? You see I told old Foster he must give a tip-top price, and of course he knows me. At first, I thought he was not going to buy the thing at all; he said he didn't know whether my uncle would like it, and all that.'
'And he said we ought to have bills printed to say it was found,' added Jacintha.
'But I talked him out of that,' said Dick, 'and here is the money,' he continued, counting out the two sovereigns, a half-crown and a shilling.
'Mind you don't lose any of it,' suggested Jacintha.
'No fear,' I answered.