Perhaps you have heard of them." I replied that Walter had mentioned the matter to me.
"Yes," said Juliet rather viciously; "I am not quite clear as to what part that good gentleman has played in the matter.

It has come out, quite accidentally, that he had a large holding in the mines himself, but he seems to have 'cut his loss,' as the phrase goes, and got out of them; though how he managed to pay such large differences is more than we can understand.

We think he must have raised money somehow to do it." "Do you know when the mines began to depreciate ?" I asked.
"Yes, it was quite a sudden affair--what Walter calls 'a slump'-- and it occurred only a few days before the robbery.

Mr.Hornby was telling me about it only yesterday, and he recalled it to me by a ridiculous accident that happened on that day." "What was that ?" I inquired.
"Why, I cut my finger and nearly fainted," she answered, with a shamefaced little laugh.

"It was rather a bad cut, you know, but I didn't notice it until I found my hand covered with blood.