If you can't do me this simple favour, why then you
must sign the business over to Jimmy here."
"No, you don't," answered Jimmy, and in accents commendably clear
considering that he uttered them with his nose deep in the tankard of
mulled ale. "Up to now I have played the good boy who is seen but
not heard. I break the self-imposed silence only to say: 'Woe betide
the man who attempts to complicate my overdraft!'"
I addressed myself to Jack. "You'll be wanting money sent to you
from time to time, and I'm to transmit.--Is that the idea?"
He nodded.
"Where am I to send it?"
"That's the uncertainty, of course. From time to time I shall keep
you informed. It may be to a suburban villa, it may be to some
_Poste Restante_ in the Sahara. That's as the chase goes. Like Baal
I shall be on a journey, or I shall be pursuing. Yes, anyway I shall
be pursuing. . . . All I ask is that, on getting a call, you'll send
out, as best you can, such-and-such a sum to the address indicated.
You have between 6000 and 7000 pounds sterling to play with.
Probably you will be surprised at my moderation in demanding: but
anyway I shall keep well within the limit.
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