CHAPTER 15.
"After all, there's something in presentiment." This was the first thought that took shape in Will's whirling mind.

The second was, that he might rationally have foreseen disaster.

All the points of strangeness which had struck him in Sherwood's behaviour came back now with such glaring significance that he accused himself of inconceivable limpness in having allowed things to go their way--above all in trusting Godfrey with the St.Neots cheque.

On this moment of painful lucidity followed blind rage.

Why, what a grovelling imbecile was this fellow! To plunge into wild speculation, on the word of some City shark, with money not his own! But could one credit the story?
Was it not more likely that Sherwood had got involved in some cunning thievery which he durst not avow?
Perhaps he was a mere liar and hypocrite.