Somebody must cross the Channel in search of the note.

Which of us two is to sit in the steam-boat with a white basin on his lap?
Old Sharon, of course!" He stopped to count the money still left, out of the sum deposited by Moody to defray the cost of the inquiry.

"All right!" he went on.

"I've got enough to pay my expenses there and back.

Don't stir out of London till you hear from me.