"What?
You don't mean that ?" "During the past three or four months," said the bank manager, "Sir Gilbert has regularly drawn very large cheques in favour of a Mr.John Paley.

They have been presented to us through the Scottish-American Bank at Edinburgh.

And," he added, with a significant look at Mr.Lindsey, "I think you'd better go to Edinburgh--and find out who Mr.John Paley is." Mr.Portlethorpe got up, looking very white and frightened.
"How much of all that money is there left in your hands ?" he asked, hoarsely.
"Not more than a couple of thousand," answered the bank manager with promptitude.
"Then he's paid out--in the way you state--what ?" demanded Mr.
Portlethorpe.
"Quite two hundred thousand pounds! And," concluded our informant, with another knowing look, "now that I'm in possession of the facts you've just put before me, I should advise you to go and find out if Sir Gilbert Carstairs and John Paley are not one and the same person!".