It will be very easily earned and you may just as well take it, for now I know where you are employed, I could have you followed day by day until I discover for myself what you are so foolishly concealing.

Be reasonable, Mr.Tavernake." Tavernake stood quite still.

His arms were folded, he was looking out of the hall window at the smoky vista of roofs and chimneys.

From the soles of his ready-made boots to his ill-brushed hair, he was a commonplace young man.

A hundred pounds was to him a vast sum of money.