I am
free and my own mistress. It is generally considered that I know what I
am about--you admitted as much when I was your pupil. I have come here
to place this sum in your hands, at your free disposal. You know why and
for what purpose."
"But what do you know of my affairs?" asked Rushbrook, quickly.
"Everything, and I know YOU, which is better. Call it an investment if
you like--for I know you will succeed--and let me share your profits.
Call it--if you please--restitution, for I am the miserable cause of
your rupture with that man. Or call it revenge if you like," she said
with a faint smile, "and let me fight at your side against our common
enemy! Please, Mr. Rushbrook, don't deny me this. I have come three
thousand miles for it; I could have sent it to you--or written--but I
feared you would not understand it. You are smiling--you will take it?"
"I cannot," said Rushbrook, gravely.
"Then you force me to go into the Stock Market myself, and fight for
you, and, unaided by YOUR genius, perhaps lose it without benefiting
you.
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