He had come over in a motor-car, to see me--privately.

He wanted to tell me--in relation to all these things--that within the last few days, the Squire and Peter Chatfield had withdrawn from the bank the very large balances of two separate accounts.

One was the Squire's own account, in his name--the other was an estate account, on which Chatfield could draw.

In both cases the balances withdrawn were of very large amount.

Of course, as Mr.Elkin pointed out, it was all in order, and no objection could be raised.