You of course are aware of the serious trouble the bank has experienced, and of the terrible consequences which have resulted therefrom ?" I admitted that I was quite conversant with it, and waited to hear what he would have to say next.
"As a matter of fact," he continued, "we have sent for you to know whether you can offer us any assistance in our hour of difficulty?
Pray take a chair, and let us talk the matter over and see what conclusion we can arrive at." I seated myself, and we discussed the affair to such good purpose that, when I left the Boardroom, it was on the understanding that I was to take up the case at once, and that my expenses and a very large sum of money should be paid me, provided I could manage to bring the affair to a successful termination.

I spent the remainder of that day at the Bank, carefully studying the various memoranda.

A great deal of what I had read and heard had been mere hearsay, and this it was necessary to discard in order that the real facts of the case might be taken up, and the proper conclusions drawn therefrom.

For three days I weighed the case carefully in my mind, and at the end of that time was in a position to give the Board a definite answer to their inquiries.

Thereupon I left England, with the result that exactly twelve weeks later the two men, so much wanted, were at Bow Street, and I had the proud knowledge of knowing that I had succeeded where the men who had tried before me had so distinctly failed.
As will be remembered, it was a case that interested every class of society, and Press and Public were alike united in the interest they showed in it.