Shall we say from to-night ?' 'As you will.

I have long wished to retire.

And now that the moment has come--and so dramatically--I am ready.

I shall return to Switzerland.
One cannot spend much money there, but it is my native land.

I shall be the richest man in Switzerland.' He smiled with a kind of sad amusement.
'I suppose you are fairly well off ?' said Racksole, in that easy familiar style of his, as though the idea had just occurred to him.
'Besides what I shall receive from you, I have half a million invested.' 'Then you will be nearly a millionaire ?' Felix Babylon nodded.
'I congratulate you, my dear sir,' said Racksole, in the tone of a judge addressing a newly-admitted barrister.