"However, that does not concern the business in hand.

This was the day appointed for the final settlement, and I have come prepared to make it with you." "You'll have to wait," declared Johnny bluntly, putting away the documents.
"I must call your attention to the fact that if you do not close this matter to-day my principals are at liberty to place the property upon the market again." "Advise them not to do so," Johnny warned him.

"Under the circumstances I am certain that I can secure enough delay for investigation--legally, if necessary.

I won't move a step until I've looked into this." "Very well," said Gresham easily, and walked out.
Johnny, in a consternation that was barely short of panic, immediately consulted Loring, and together they set out upon a search for the Wobbleses.

At their various hotels--for no two of them put up at the same place--it was discovered that they were severally "probably in the country at week-end parties".