Our reply was perfectly truthful.

Owing to your peculiar stipulations, we are simply holding a certain packet for you in our security chamber.

We know it to contain bank-notes, and there is very little doubt but that it contains the notes which have been the subject of this inquiry.

I want to ask you, Mr.Laverick, to be so good as to open that packet, let me credit the notes to your account in the usual way, and leave me free to reply as I ought to have done in the first instance to this inquiry." "The course which you suggest," replied the other, "is one which I absolutely decline to take.

It is not for me to tell you the nature of the relations which should exist between a banker and his client.
All that I can say is that those notes are deposited with you and must remain on deposit, and that the transaction is one which must be treated entirely as a confidential one.