13/25 Both sides of the pocket-book were filled with bank-notes. As his match flickered out, he caught a glimpse of the figures in the left-hand corner--500 pounds!--great rolls of them! Laverick rose gasping to his feet. It was a new Arabian Nights, this!--a dream!--a continuation of the nightmare which had threatened him all day! Or was it, perhaps, the madness coming--the madness which he had begun only an hour or so ago to fear! He walked into the gaslit streets and looked up and down. The mysterious stranger had vanished. There was not a soul in sight. |