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"He'll fetch him," said Charles. "Let us make ourselves at home. This sofa does not feel over and above safe. It was not meant for 15-stono men. But this doesn't look quite the sort of place where one would expect to pick up money," "Just what I was thinking," said, the admiral, looking ruefully about him. "Ah, well! I have heard that the best furnished offices generally belong to the poorest firms. Let us hope it's the opposite here. They can't spend much on the management anyhow. That pumpkin headed boy was the staff, I suppose. Ha, by Jove, that's his voice, and he's got our man, I think!"

As he spoke the youth appeared in the doorway with a small, brown, dried up little chip of a man at his heels. He was clean shaven and blue chinned, with bristling black hair and keen brown eyes which shone out very brightly from between pouched underlids and drooping upper ones. He advanced, glancing keenly from one to the other of his visitors, and slowly rubbing together his thin blue veined hands. The small boy closed the door behind him and discreetly vanished. "1 am Mr. Reuben Metaxn." said the money lender. ''Was it about an advance you wished to seo me?" "Yes." "For you, 1 presume." turning to Charles Westmacott. "No, for this gentleman."

The money lender looked surprised. "How much did you desire?" "I thought of £5,000," said the admiral. "And on what security?" "I am a retired admiral of the British navy. You will find my name in the navy list. There is my card. I have here my pension papers. I get £850 a year. I thought that perhaps if you were to hold these papers it would be security enough that I should pay you. You could draw my pension and repay yourselves at the rate, say, of £500 a year, taking your 5 per cent interest as well." "What interest?" "Five per cent per annum."

Mr. Metaxa laughed. "Per annum!" he said. "Five per cent a month."

"Per annum!" he said.

"A month! That would be CO per cent a j-ear. "Precisely." "But that is monstrous." "I don't ask gentlemen to come to me. They come of their own free will. Those aro my terms, and and they can take it or leave it." "Then I shall leave it." The admiral rose angrily from his chair. I "But one moment, sir. Just sit down, and wo shall chat the matter over, Yours is a rather unusual case, and wo may find some other way of doing what you wish. Of course the security which 3*ou offer is no security at all, and no sano man would advance 5,000 pennies I on it." I "No security? Why not, sir?" "You might die tomorrow. You aro not a young man. "What ago arc you?" I "Sixty-three."

Mr. Metaxa turned over a long colmnr. of figure.- "Ilcre is an actuary's table," said lie. "At your time of life the average expectancy of life is only a few years even in a well preserved man." "Do you mean to insinuate that I am not a well preserved man?" "Well.aihniral.it is a trying life at sea. Sailors in their younger days are gay dogs and take it out of themselves. Then when they grow older they aro still hard at it and have no chance of rest or peace. 1 do not think a sailor's life a yood one." "I'll tell you what, sir," said tlieadittiral hotly. "If 3-ou have two pairs of gloves, 1*11 undertake to knock yon out under three rounds, or I'll race you from hero to St. Paul's, and my friend hero will see fair. I'll let you sec whether I am an old man or not." "This is beside the question," said the money lender with a deprecatory shrug. "The point is that if you died tomorrow where would bo 1he security then?" "I could insure my life and make tlio policy over to you." "Your premiums for such a sum, if any office would have you, which I very much doubt, would come to close on £500 a year. That would hardly suit your book." "Well, sir, what do yon intend to propose?" asked the admiral. "I might, to accommodate you, work it in another way. I should send for a medical man and have an opinion upon your life. Then I might see what could bo done." "That is quite fair. I have no objection to that."

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The admiral sat in dire perplexity, lie had come out to get money, and to go back without any, to bo powerless to help when JIM boy needed every shilling to save him from disaster, that, would be I very bitter to him. On the other hand, it was so much that he surrendered and I so littlo that he received. Little, and yet something. Would it not bo better than going- back empty handed? He saw tho yellow backed checkbook upon the table. The money lender opened it and dipped his pen in the ink. "Shall I fill it up?" "I think, admiral," remarked Westmacott, "that we had belter have a little walk and some luncheon beforo we settle this matter." "Oh, we may as well do it at once. It would be absurd to postpone it now,"

Metaxa spoke with some heat, and his eyes glinted angrily from between his narrow lids at the imperturbable Charles. The admiral was simplo .in money matters, but he had seen much of men and had learned to read them. He saw that Venomous glance, and saw, too, that in-

tense eagerness was peeping out from beneath the careless air which the agent had assumed. "You're quite right, Westmacott," said he. "We'll have a littlo walk before wo scttlo it."

"There is a very clever doctor in the street here. Proudie is his name. John, go and fetch Dr. Proudie." The youth was dispatched upon his errand, while Mr. Metaxa sat at his desk, trimming his nails and shooting out little comments upon the weather. Presently feet were heard upon the stairs, the money lender hurried out, there was a sound of whispering, and he returned with a large, fat, greasy looking man clad in a much worn frock coat and a very dilapidated top hat. "Dr. Proudie, gentlemen," said Mr. Metaxa.

The doctor bowed, smiled, whipped off his hat and produced his stethoscope from its interior with the air of a conjuror upon the stage. "Which of these gentlemen am I to examine?" he asked, blinking from one to the other of them. "Ah, it is you! Only your waistcoat! You need not undo your collar. Thank you! A full breath! Thank you! Kine-ty-nine! Thank you! Now hold your breath for a moment. Oh, dear, dear, what is this I hear?" "What is it, then?" asked the admiral coolly. "Tut, tut! This is a great pity. Have foil had rheumatic fever?" "Never." "You have had some serious illness?" "Never." "Ah, you are an admiral. You have been abroad, tropics, malaria, ague—I know." "I have never had a day's illness." "Not to your knowledge, but you 'aave inhaled unhealthy air, and it has left its effect. You have an organic murmur—slight, but distinct." "Is it dangerous?" "It might at any time become so. You should not take violent exercise." "Oh, indeed. It would hurt me to run a half mile?" "It would be very dangerous." •1 "And a mile?" "Would be almost certainly fatal." "Then there is nothing else the matter?" "No. But if the heart is weak then everything is weak, and the life is not a sound one." "You see, admiral," remarked Mr. Metaxa as the doctor secreted his stethoscope once more in his hat, "my remarks were not entirely uncalled for. I am sorry that the doctor's opinion is not more favorable, but this is a matter of business, and certain obvious precautions must be taken." "Of course. Then the matter is at ah end." "Well, we might even now do business. I am most anxious to be of use to you. How long do you think, doctor, that this gentleman will in all probability live?" "Well, well, it's rather a delicate question to answer," said Mr. Proudie, with a show of embarrassment. "Not a bit, sir. Out with it! I have faced death too often to flinch from it now, though I saw it as near to me as you are." "Well, well, we must go by averages of course. Shall we say two years? I should tliinlc that you have a full two years before you." "In two years your pension would bring you in £1,600. Now I will do my very best for you, admiral. I will advance you £2,000, and you can make over to mo your pension for your life. It is pure speculation on my part. If you die tomorrow, I lose my money. If the doctor's prophecy is correct, I shall still be out of pocket. If yoii live a little longer, then I may seo my money again. It is the very best I can do for you." "Then you wish to buy my pension?" "Yes, for JL'S.OOO down." "And if I live for 20 years?" I "Oh, in that ease of course my spoculatum would be more successful. But you have heard the doctor's opinion." "Would you advance tlio money instantly?" I You should 1 iave 1.000 at once. T! le other £1.000 I should expect you to tabj in furniture.'' "In furniture?"' I "Yes. admiral. V\7o .shall do you a beautiful houseful at that sum. It is the custom of my clients to take half in I furniture."

"But I may not be here 'this aftei*noon." "Then we must choose another day." "But why not settle it now?" "Because I prefer not," said the admiral shori'ly. "Very well. But remember that my offer is only f'cr today. It is off unless you take it rt once." "Let it be olT. then." "There's my fee," cried the doctor. "IIow much?''

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The admiral threw £1 Is. upon tho table. "Come, Westmacott," said he, and they wallced together from the room. "I don't like it," said Charles when they found themselves in the street once more. "I don't profess to be a very sharp chap, but this is a trifle too thin. What did he want to go out and speak to the doctor for? And how very convenient this tale of a weak heart was. I believe they area couple of rogues and in league with each other." "A shark and a pilot fish," said the admiral. "I'll tell you what I propose, sir. There's a lawyer named McAdam, who does my aunt's business. He is a very honest fellow and lives at the other side of Poultry. We'll go over to him together and have his opinion about the whole matter." "How far is it to his place?" "Oh, a mile at least. We can have a cab." "A mile? Then we shall see if there is any truth in what that swab of a doctor said. Come, my boy, and clap on all sail and see who can stay the longest.'

Then the sober denizens of the heart of business London saw a singular sight as they returned from their luncheons. Down the roadway, dodging among cabs and carts, ran a weather stained elderly man, with wide, flapping black hat and homely suit of tweeds. With elbows braced back, hands clinched near his armpits and chest protruded he scudded along, while close at his heels lumbered a large limbed, heavy, yellow mustaclied young man, who seemed to feel the exercise a good deal more than his senior. On they dashed, helter skelter, until they pulled up panting at the office where the lawyer of the Westmacotts was to be found. "There, now!" cried the admiral in triumph. "What d'ye think of that? Nothing wrong in the engine room, eh?" "Yon seem fit enough, sir." "Blessed if I believe the swab was a certificated doctor at all. He was flying false colors or I am mistaken." "Tliey keep the directories and registers in this eating house," said Westmacott. "We'll go and look him out."

They did so, but the medical rolls contained no such name as that of Dr. Proudie of B»read street. "Pretty villainy this!" cried the admiral, thumping his chest. 'A dummy doctor and a vamped up disease. Well, we've tried the rogues, Westmacott! Let us see what we can do with your honest man."

CHAPTER XIV. EASTWARD IiO!

Mr. McAdam of the firm of McAdam fe Squire was a highly polished man who dwelt behind a highly polished table in the neatest and snuggest of offices. He was white haired and amiable, with a deep lined aquiline face, was addicted to low bows and indeed always seemed to carry himself at half cock, as though just descending into one or just recovering himself. He wore a high buckled stock, took snuff and adorned his conversation with little scraps from the classics. "My dear sir," said he when he had listened to their story, "any friend of Mrs. Westmacott's is a friend of mine. Try a pinch. I wonder that you should have gone to this man Metaxa. His advertisement is enough to condemn him. Habet foenum in cornu. They aro all rogues." "The doctor was a rogue too. I didn't like the look of him at the time." "Arcades ambo. But now we must see what we can do for you. Of courso what Metaxa said was perfectly right. The pension is in itself no security at all unless it were accompanied by a lifo assurance which would be an income in itK-lf. It i.- no good whatevi i\"

His clients' faces fell. "But there is tho second alternative. You might sell tho pension right out. Speculative investors occasionally deal in such things. I have one client, a sporting man, who would bo very likely to take it up if we could agree upon terms. OL course I must follow Metaxa's example by sending for a doctor."

For the second time was tho admiral punched and tapped and listened to. This time, however, there could bo no cuostion of the qualifications of the doct',*\ a well known fellow of the College of Knrgeons, and his report was as favorsibL the other's had been adverse. "Ji.' has tho heart and chest of a man 1 he. "I can recommend his of the best of his age that I :--::amined." "That's v. id Mr. McAdam, making a note l'.e doctor's remarks, while tlio admiral (us.airsed a second guinea. "Your price. 1 understand, is £5.000. 1 can communiea! with Mr. El berry, my client, and ler, you know whether ho cares to touch tho matter. Meanwhilo you can leave your pension papers here, and I will give you a receipt for them." "Very woll. 1 should liko the money soon."

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