I'm very much obliged to you."
Melky slipped his money into his pocket--conscious of having done his
part. "Just as you like, mister," he said. "But you was welcome, you know.
Next Friday, then--and you can reckon on cash down for this job."
The Monday morning brought neither of the expected letters to Lauriston.
But he had not spoken without reason when he said to Zillah that he had a
bit of property to fall back upon--now that he knew how ready money could
easily be raised. He had some pledgeable property in his trunk--and when
the remittances failed to arrive, he determined to avail himself of it.
Deep down in a corner of the trunk he had two valuable rings--all that his
mother had left him, with the exception of two hundred pounds, with which
he had ventured to London, and on which he had lived up to then. He got
the rings out towards the end of Monday afternoon, determining to take
them round to Daniel Multenius and raise sufficient funds on them to last
him for, at any rate, another month or two. He had little idea of the real
value of such articles, and he had reasons of his own for not showing the
rings to Melky Rubinstein; his notion was to wait until evening, when he
would go to the pawnshop at about the same time as on his previous visit,
in the hope of finding Zillah in charge again.
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