“You’re not going to give it to them, Sir John?” Bates asked in horror.
“But we may have to eventually,” Sir John replied. “But we are not making the mistake of putting money in front of anyone’s life, especially her Ladyship’s.”
He looked round and his eyes rested on one of the footmen.
Then he said,
“I want them, if they are watching us, to think that I am going to the Bank. So I want you, Brian, to take the chaise and drive to the Bank in the town.
“I’ll do that, Sir John,” Brian said.
John looked round again and then he said,
“Now I think that James looks more like me than anyone else. I want you to go upstairs and put on one of my coats and a hat. Don’t look around you when you are driving to the Bank so that anyone seeing you passing will think that you are me and at the B
