"Yes!" replied Neale. "They were found – all safe – in a suit-case in Joseph's house, along with a lot of other valuables – money, securities, and so on. He was evidently about to be off; in fact, the luggage was all ready, and so was a cab which he'd ordered, and in which he was presumably going to Ellersdeane."
"And another thing," said Horbury, turning from one to the other, "I heard this morning that you'd left the Bank, Neale. What are you going to do? What has happened?"
Betty looked at Neale warningly, stooped over the invalid, kissed him, rose and took Neale's unwounded arm.
"No more talk today, Uncle John!" she commanded. "Wait until tomorrow. Then – if you're very good – we shall perhaps tell you what is going to happen to – both of us!"