THE BARON AND THE MONEY-LENDER Sir Tancred would only stay four days in Paris with the grateful Blumenruth, because he wished Hildebrand Anne to have the sea air, for it seemed to him that he had not yet got back his full strength after the scarlet fever.

They returned, therefore, to Brighton, and when the weather grew hotter, removed to the more bracing East Coast.

Tinker was for sharing the three thousand pounds he had made out of his trip in the flying-machine equally with his father; but Sir Tancred would not hear of it.

Chiefly to please him, however, he borrowed a thousand of it at five per cent., and invested the rest in Tinker's name.

With this thousand-pound note and three notes of fifty pounds, he paid off the loan of a thousand pounds which he had borrowed from Mr.Robert Lambert, a money-lender, five years before, with the balance of the interest up to date, and found himself once more unencumbered save for a few small debts, and with plenty of money for his immediate needs.
During August and September they stayed at different country houses; and Fortune being in a kindly mood, the money remained untouched.