He ran over the notes with feverish fingers, and then took the precaution to examine Bartley's day-book.

His caution was rewarded--he found that the notes Bolton had brought in were _numbered_.
He instantly made two parcels--clapped the unnumbered notes into his pocket.

The numbered ones he took in his hand into the lobby.

Now this lobby must be shortly described.

First there was a door with a glass window, but the window had dark blue gauze fixed to it, so that nobody could see into the lobby from the office; but a person in the lobby, by putting his eye close to the gauze, could see into the office in a filmy sort of way.