Have a drop of brandy-and-water, and you will feel as certain about it as I do." Jack steadily refused the brandy-and-water, and steadily persisted in taking his leave.
"I must try if I can't walk it off," he said.

"Remember to-morrow morning--eleven o'clock, Avenue Road, side of the Regent's Park." With those words he went out.

His hardened relative laughed desperately and resumed the dirty clay pipe.
I sat down on the side of my bed, actually quivering with excitement.
It is clear to me that no attempt has yet been made to change the stolen bank-notes, and I may add that Sergeant Bulmer was of that opinion also when he left the case in my hands.

What is the natural conclusion to draw from the conversation which I have just set down?
Evidently that the confederates meet to-morrow to take their respective shares in the stolen money, and to decide on the safest means of getting the notes changed the day after.

Mr.Jay is, beyond a doubt, the leading criminal in this business, and he will probably run the chief risk--that of changing the fifty-pound note.