It was not a pleasant laugh, nor was it in the least mirthful.
"Dear me!" he exclaimed.

"I had forgotten that little matter.

As you will, certainly." He accepted the notes and stuffed them into his pocket.
"By the bye," he continued, "I think that I ought to congratulate you, Sir Henry.

That last little affair of yours was wonderfully stage-managed.

Your country owes you more than it is ever likely to pay.
You have succeeded, at any rate, in delaying the inevitable." "I trust," Hunterleys enquired politely, "that you were not detained upon the yacht for very long ?" "We landed at the Villa at twelve o'clock this morning," Draconmeyer replied.