Now we can carry this thing right through without bothering your uncle, and make a success of it, but there is just one thing we must have, and that is a paper which he has locked away in his study, and which is a sort of key to the situation.

I spoke to your uncle about it last night over the telephone, and he agreed to have it ready for me when I called this morning.

I could not find any one at the house, however, who had received instructions about it, so I concluded that he had perhaps left word with you." "No!" she answered, "he has not told me anything." "Miss Longworth," he continued, laying his hand for a moment upon her arm, "you know from what your uncle said last night that we are all practically his partners.

Now in his interests and all of ours, and naturally therefore in yours, we must have that paper.

When we get home, just step into your uncle's room and say one sentence to him.