9/28 'Perhaps I may be, in your sense of the word.' 'My sense of the word!' said Mr.Chaffanbrass. 'You are as much a stock-jobber, sir, as that man is a policeman, or his lordship is a judge. And now, Mr.Scott, I am sorry that I must go back to your private affairs, respecting which you are so unwilling to speak. I fear I must trouble you to tell me this--How did you raise the money with which you bought that latter batch--the large lump of the bridge shares--of which we were speaking ?' 'I borrowed it from Mr.Tudor,' said Undy, who had prepared himself to answer this question glibly. You borrowed it, I believe, just at the time that he became the lady's trustee ?' 'Yes,' said Undy; 'I did so.' 'You have not repaid him as yet ?' 'No--not yet,' said Undy. |