"He is gathering his money together.

Has he a hoard yonder unknown to us all ?" Wood thought he would watch him.

There was a closet between the two rooms: Wood bored a hole in the panel, and peeped through.

Hayes had a brace of pistols, and four or five little bags before him on the table.
One of these he opened, and placed, one by one, five-and-twenty guineas into it.

Such a sum had been due that day--Catherine spoke of it only in the morning; for the debtor's name had by chance been mentioned in the conversation.