Vallon said: "I'll bring you sixty-three pounds inside an hour. But I've got to have speed with this, see? I want to move before Mrs. Lennox begins to change her mind. You know what women are?"
"Yes... yes indeed," said Sulkin. "Excuse me for a moment." He opened the door behind his desk; went out. He returned in three minutes and said: "That's all right. We can get moving as soon as you like providing we have the cash as you said."
"I told you the money would be here in an hour. Can you fix this for to-night?"
Sulkin nodded. "When you bring the cash round I'm going to give you the address of a very nice little hotel— one of those quiet country places, you know. They've got a bar and everything, and the liquor's good. It's thirty miles outside London. Is that too far for you?"
"That su
