Twenty thousand pounds in America!--lying there, too, for Douglas under a false name! He drew out one of the documents which he had packed and glanced at it more carefully.

Then he replaced it, a little dazed.

Douglas had planned to leave England, then, with this crisis looming over him.

Why?
Philip for a moment sat down on the arm of an easy-chair.

A grim sense of humour suddenly parted his lips.