From a roll of money in his bureau drawer he counted out a hundred dollars.

Tactfully he slipped the money in the trousers pocket of the serge suit and with the bundle of clothes in his arms raced downstairs and shoved them into the coat-room.
"Don't come out until I knock," he commanded.

"And," he added in a vehement whisper, "don't come out at all unless you have clothes on!" The stranger grunted.
Fred rang for Gridley and told him to have his car brought around to the door.

He wanted it to start at once within two minutes.

When the butler had departed, Fred, by an inch, again opened the coat-room door.