True, I could just pay myself.

But what would happen next time?
And if he wouldn't pay, and I couldn't pay, the game would be up.

As to the original loan, it is true I had no responsibility; but then, if no interest were paid, the fact that I had applied the second loan, _my_ loan, in a different manner from what I was authorized to do, and had represented myself to have done, would be inevitably discovered.

And my acceptance of the bonus, my dealings with the reserve fund, my furnishing inaccurate returns of investments, all this would, I knew, look rather queer to people who didn't know the circumstances.
When I went back to the bank, revolving these things in my mind, I found Jones employed in arranging the correspondence.

It was part of his duty to see to the preservation and filing of all letters arriving from Europe, and, strange to say, he delighted in the task.