k."

"Better wait a little while. If we drew such a large amount just at the
beginning of banking hours, the bank officers might suspect something."

"Cautious again. Well, wait half an hour, if you must. Call Felix and
give him his instructions."

Felix Gordon came in at this moment, and was admitted to the
conference.

"Felix," said the bookkeeper, "you remember the arrangement I made with
you yesterday?"

"Yes, Cousin David."

"It is to be carried out to-day. I shall give you a check for eighteen
hundred dollars, and you will receive the money and come from the bank
here."

"Yes, Cousin David."

"You will carry the parcel in the left-hand pocket of your sack coat,
and if it is taken you can appear to be unconscious of it."

"Yes."

"And--that is all you will have to do, except to say that a tall, thin
man"--Ralston was short and sturdy--"jostled against you, and must have
taken it."

"All right! I see. And I am to have twenty-five dollars for----"

"Your trouble. Yes."

"Give it to me now."

"Wait till you come back. Don't be afraid. You will get it."

"All right."

When Felix was on his way to the bank, he did not know that he was
followed at a little distance by a small man with keen, black eyes,
who, without appearing to do so, watched carefully every movement of
the young office boy.

When Felix entered the bank, he also entered the bank, and stood behind
Felix in the line at the paying teller's window.

He nodded secretly to the teller when that official read the check
presented by Felix.

"Eighteen hundred dollars?" the latter repeated, aloud.

"Yes, sir," answered Felix, composedly.

"I shall have to go back to get it. We haven't as much here."

He went to another part of the bank and returned after a time with
three packages. One was labeled one thousand dollars, another five
hundred dollars and a third two hundred dollars. Then he counted out
from the drawer beside him a hundred dollars in bills.

Felix, with a look of relief, took the three parcels and dropped them
carelessly in the side pocket of his sack coat, and put the bills in
loose. Then he started on his way back to the office.

Mr. Sharpleigh, for it was he, as the reader has doubtless guessed,
walked closely behind him. He was not quite sure as to the manner in
which the money was to be taken, but guessed at once when he caught
sight of Dick Ralston at a little distance with his eyes intently fixed
upon Felix.