A couple of minutes passed, and then he said, "Well, you've brought the money all right? Then show it to me."
"Show me the plans first," said the Japanese firmly. "I'm not sure yet whether you've got them."
Pellew made a mock sigh of resignation. "Then come with me behind these trees and I'll dig them up. They're buried in a tin not ten yards away."
But the Japanese made no movement to rise from the log upon which he, too, had seated himself. "No, I prefer to remain where I am," he said. "I'm coming behind no trees with you."
Pellew scowled, but then, rising briskly to his feet, moved off to behind the trees. But he was only gone about a minute and returned with a small, flattish parcel rolled up loosely in part of a sheet of newspaper all dirtied with earth. He tore off the newspaper,
