Mind you see to this.' At the moment when Dagworthy's tread sounded on the stairs, Mr.Hood was on the point of making a singular discovery.

In turning a page of the ledger, he came upon an envelope, old and yellow, which had evidently been shut up in the hook for several years; it was without address and unsealed.

He was going to lay it aside, when his fingers told him that it contained something; the enclosure proved to be a ten-pound note, also old and patched together in the manner of notes that have been sent half at a time.
'Now I wonder how that got left there ?' Hood mused.

'There's been rare searching for that, I'll be bound.

Here's something to put our friend into a better temper.' He turned the note over once or twice, tried in vain to decipher a scribbled endorsement, then restored it to the envelope.