Yet now it had come right: he had repaired the original wrong; on Monday he would reinvest this capital in those holdings which he had sold, and Morris's L40,000 (so largely the result of careful and judicious investment) would certainly stand the scrutiny of any who could possibly have any cause to examine his ledgers.

Indeed there would be nothing to see.

Two years ago Mr.Morris Assheton's fortune was invested in certain railway debentures and Government stock.
It would in a few days' time be invested there again, precisely as it had been.

Mr.Taynton had not been dealing in gilt-edged securities lately, and could not absolutely trust his memory, but he rather thought that the repurchase could be made at a somewhat smaller sum than had been realised by their various sales dating from two years ago.

In that case there was a little more _sub rosa_ reward for this well-inspired justice, weighed but featherwise against the overwhelming relief of the knowledge he could make wrong things right again, repair his, yes, his scoundrelism.
How futile, too, now, was Mills's threatened blackmail! Mills might, if he chose, proclaim on any convenient housetop, that his partner had gambled with Morris's L40,000 that according to the ledgers was invested in certain railway debentures and other gilt-edged securities.