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"
The
real
and
personal
estate
now
amounting
to
something
over
Five
Millions
of
Pounds
Sterling
,
we
should
esteem
it
a
favour
if
you
could
make
it
convenient
to
call
upon
us
any
day
this
week
in
order
that
we
may
go
through
the
necessary
formalities
together
.
The
larger
bulk
of
the
cash
is
lodged
in
the
Bank
of
England
,
and
a
considerable
amount
is
placed
in
French
government
securities
.
We
should
prefer
going
into
further
details
with
you
personally
rather
than
by
letter
.
Trusting
you
will
call
on
us
without
delay
,
we
are
,
Sir
,
yours
obediently
...
.
"
Five
Millions
!
I
,
the
starving
literary
hack
--
the
friendless
,
hopeless
,
almost
reckless
haunter
of
low
newspaper
dens
--
I
,
the
possessor
of
"
over
Five
Millions
of
Pounds
Sterling
"
!
I
tried
to
grasp
the
astounding
fact
--
for
fact
it
evidently
was
--
but
could
not
.
It
seemed
to
me
a
wild
delusion
,
born
of
the
dizzy
vagueness
which
lack
of
food
engendered
in
my
brain
.
I
stared
round
the
room
;
--
the
mean
miserable
furniture
--
the
fireless
grate
--
the
dirty
lamp
--
the
low
truckle
bedstead
--
the
evidences
of
penury
and
want
on
every
side
;
--
and
then
--
then
the
overwhelming
contrast
between
the
poverty
that
environed
me
and
the
news
I
had
just
received
,
struck
me
as
the
wildest
,
most
ridiculous
incongruity
I
had
ever
heard
of
or
imagined
--
and
I
gave
vent
to
a
shout
of
laughter
.
"
Was
there
ever
such
a
caprice
of
mad
Fortune
!
"
I
cried
aloud
--
"
Who
would
have
imagined
it
!
Good
God
!
I
!
I
,
of
all
men
in
the
world
to
be
suddenly
chosen
out
for
this
luck
!
By
Heaven
!
--
If
it
is
all
true
,
I
'll
make
society
spin
round
like
a
top
on
my
hand
before
I
am
many
months
older
!
"
And
I
laughed
loudly
again
;
laughed
just
as
I
had
previously
sworn
,
simply
by
way
of
relief
to
my
feelings
.
Some
one
laughed
in
answer
--
a
laugh
that
seemed
to
echo
mine
.
I
checked
myself
abruptly
,
somewhat
startled
,
and
listened
.
Rain
poured
outside
,
and
the
wind
shrieked
like
a
petulant
shrew
--
the
violinist
next
door
was
practising
a
brilliant
roulade
up
and
down
his
instrument
--
but
there
were
no
other
sounds
than
these
.
Yet
I
could
have
sworn
I
heard
a
man
's
deep-chested
laughter
close
behind
me
where
I
stood
.
"
It
must
have
been
my
fancy
;
"
I
murmured
,
turning
the
flame
of
the
lamp
up
higher
in
order
to
obtain
more
light
in
the
room
--
"
I
am
nervous
I
suppose
--
no
wonder
!
Poor
Boffles
!
--
good
old
chap
!
"
I
continued
,
remembering
my
friend
's
draft
for
fifty
pounds
,
which
had
seemed
such
a
godsend
a
few
minutes
since
--
"
What
a
surprise
is
in
store
for
you
!
You
shall
have
your
loan
back
as
promptly
as
you
sent
it
,
with
an
extra
fifty
added
by
way
of
interest
for
your
generosity
.
And
as
for
the
new
Mæcenas
you
are
sending
to
help
me
over
my
difficulties
--
well
,
he
may
be
a
very
excellent
old
gentleman
,
but
he
will
find
himself
quite
out
of
his
element
this
time
.
I
want
neither
assistance
nor
advice
nor
patronage
--
I
can
buy
them
all
!
Titles
,
honours
,
possessions
--
they
are
all
purchasable
--
love
,
friendship
,
position
--
they
are
all
for
sale
in
this
admirably
commercial
age
and
go
to
the
highest
bidder
!
By
my
soul
!
--
The
wealthy
'
philanthropist
'
will
find
it
difficult
to
match
me
in
power
!
He
will
scarcely
have
more
than
five
millions
to
waste
,
I
warrant
!
And
now
for
supper
--
I
shall
have
to
live
on
credit
till
I
get
some
ready
cash
--
and
there
is
no
reason
why
I
should
not
leave
this
wretched
hole
at
once
,
and
go
to
one
of
the
best
hotels
and
swagger
it
!
"
I
was
about
to
leave
the
room
on
the
swift
impulse
of
excitement
and
joy
,
when
a
fresh
and
violent
gust
of
wind
roared
down
the
chimney
,
bringing
with
it
a
shower
of
soot
which
fell
in
a
black
heap
on
my
rejected
manuscript
where
it
lay
forgotten
on
the
floor
,
as
I
had
despairingly
thrown
it
.
I
hastily
picked
it
up
and
shook
it
free
from
the
noisome
dirt
,
wondering
as
I
did
so
,
what
would
be
its
fate
now
?
--
now
,
when
I
could
afford
to
publish
it
myself
,
and
not
only
publish
it
but
advertise
it
,
and
not
only
advertise
it
,
but
'
push
'
it
,
in
all
the
crafty
and
cautious
ways
known
to
the
inner
circles
of
'
booming
'
!
I
smiled
as
I
thought
of
the
vengeance
I
would
take
on
all
those
who
had
scorned
and
slighted
me
and
my
labour
--
how
they
should
cower
before
me
!
--
how
they
should
fawn
at
my
feet
like
whipt
curs
,
and
whine
their
fulsome
adulation
!
Every
stiff
and
stubborn
neck
should
bend
before
me
;
--
this
I
resolved
upon
;
for
though
money
does
not
always
conquer
everything
,
it
only
fails
when
it
is
money
apart
from
brains
.
Brains
and
money
together
can
move
the
world
--
brains
can
very
frequently
do
this
alone
without
money
,
of
which
serious
and
proved
fact
those
who
have
no
brains
should
beware
!
Full
of
ambitious
thought
,
I
now
and
then
caught
wild
sounds
from
the
violin
that
was
being
played
next
door
--
notes
like
sobbing
cries
of
pain
,
and
anon
rippling
runs
like
a
careless
woman
's
laughter
--
and
all
at
once
I
remembered
I
had
not
yet
opened
the
third
letter
addressed
to
me
--
the
one
coroneted
in
scarlet
and
gold
,
which
had
remained
where
it
was
on
the
table
almost
unnoticed
till
now
.
I
took
it
up
and
turned
it
over
with
an
odd
sense
of
reluctance
in
my
fingers
,
which
were
slow
at
the
work
of
tearing
the
thick
envelope
asunder
.
Drawing
out
an
equally
thick
small
sheet
of
notepaper
also
coroneted
,
I
read
the
following
lines
written
in
an
admirably
legible
,
small
and
picturesque
hand
.
