After doing this he did not feel quite so virtuous, nor so like the proverbial British workman; he jingled some of Daisy's sovereigns in his pocket, and laughed when they made a pleasant sound.

Still eagerly peering at all the articles on the mantel-piece his quick eyes presently detected amongst a heap of rubbish and odds and ends Noel's valuable signet-ring; it was of heavy workmanship, and its gold alone made it worth money.
"Why, Isaacs the Jew would give me two pound ten, or perhaps three pounds for this," queried Dove.

"It has plainly been forgotten here, and if the gent does miss it he'll lay the blame on that fine fellow Lawson." It took a very small parley with Dove's seared conscience to make him pocket the ring, and by the time Lawson returned to the house the five-pound note had also been appropriated.

Dove whistled more cheerily than ever over his work that afternoon, and in the evening he went home quite unsuspecting any little trap which might have been set for him.
He had scarcely gone before a boy arrived with a telegram directed to Lawson, and with a reply pre-paid.

Lawson read the following words:-- "Look on the mantel-piece in my sitting-room for a blank envelope, open, which contains a five-pound note--No.