The amount, when he did mention it, was much greater than Mr.Brimsdown imagined--nearly L50,000 in fact.
It was at Robert Turold's suggestion that Mr.Brimsdown undertook to invest the sum at better rates of interest, and thus, before a year had passed, the whole of Robert Turold's business affairs were in the hands of the solicitor.
On one point Mr.Brimsdown was clear.

He had never heard from Robert Turold how he first came into possession of this large sum of money, and his client had never encouraged inquiry on the subject.

Mr.Brimsdown had once ventured to ask him how he had made his fortune, and Robert Turold, with a freezing look, had replied that he had made it abroad.

Mr.
Brimsdown had never again referred to the subject, deeming it no business of his.
Barrant, listening to this with the air of a man who was not to be deceived, could not see that the narration threw any illumination on the letter or the other circumstances of Robert Turold's death.

It seemed too far-fetched to suppose there was any connection between the fortune which Robert Turold had brought from abroad thirty years before and the letter he had sent to his solicitor on the night of his death.