He took the packet of D'Ianazzi's bank-notes out of his pocket. The notes were folded once. Callaghan removed the top two notes. He removed them because they were both fifty-pound notes and their removal left the sum mentioned in the letter— nineteen hundred pounds, because the top folded note bore both his and Nikoll's fingerprints, and because Doria Varette owed Callaghan's Investigations a hundred pounds.
He thought for a moment, moved over to the chest of drawers, opened two or three drawers, eventually found a flimsy nightgown with a pink ribbon threaded through it. He drew out the ribbon carefully, folded the packet of bank-notes into a small oblong shape, tied the ribbon round the package.
He went over to the bed. Very gently he raised the skirt on the still figure and slipped the
