Shall I tell you why they kidnapped you ?' 'When you have done abusing me, my dear uncle.' 'They kidnapped you merely to keep you out of England for a few days, merely to compel you to fail in your appointment with Sampson Levi.

And it appears to me that they succeeded.

Assuming that you don't obtain the money from Levi, is there another financier in all Europe from whom you can get it--on such strange security as you have to offer ?' 'Possibly there is not,' said Prince Eugen calmly.

'But, you see, I shall get it from Sampson Levi.

Levi promised it, and I know from other sources that he is a man of his word.