"No, I have business in quite another part. That election," he
added, with an air of importance, "is not the only one I am looking
after."
There was silence, then Glazzard continued:
"It's indifferent to me whether it comes out that I planned this
stratagem, or not. Still, in the interests of my party, I admit that
I had rather it were kept quiet. So I'll tell you what. If, in a
month's time, I find that you have kept the secret, you shall
receive at any address you like a second five-pound note. It's just
as you please. Of course, if you think you can get more by
bargaining with the Liberals--but I doubt whether the secret will
be worth anything after the explosion."
"All right. I'll give you an address, so that if you keep in the
same mind"----
He mentioned it. And Glazzard made a note.
"Then we strike a bargain, Mr. Northway?"
"Yes, I'll go through with it," was the deliberate reply.
"Very well. Then you shall have the particulars."
Thereupon Glazzard made known the names he had kept in reserve.
Northway jotted them down on the back of an envelope, his hand
rather unsteady.
"There's a train to Polterham," said Glazzard, "at nine o'clock in
the morning. You'll be there by ten--see Ridge the bookseller, and
be at the Court-house in convenient time. I know there's a sitting
to-morrow; and on the second day after comes out the Polterham Tory
paper.
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