But what the devil has that job to do with our job ?" He was losing his temper; everything seemed to turn upon this infernal Van Loo! "He wasn't running away with Mrs.Barker," gasped Hall,--"it was with her MONEY! and the fear of being connected with the Wheat Trust swindle which he organized, and with our money which I lent him for the same purpose.

And he knows all about that job, for I wanted to get him to go into it with us.

Your name and mine ain't any too sweet-smelling for the bank, and we ought to have a middleman who knows business to arrange with them.

The bank daren't object to him, for they've employed him in even shadier transactions than this when THEY didn't wish to appear.

I knew he was in difficulties along with Mrs.Barker's speculations, but I never thought him up to this.