"
"Well, what are you going to do--wait?"
"Yes. I shall invest these bonds so they will be safe, and then let
time do the rest. I do not think we shall have long to wait. They
have been holding the bank stock for me, so I have not really
suffered--thus far."
"Well, you certainly are a cool one!" complimented Jack. "If I
thought some one had my money--some coward, as this person must be,
to keep silent all this while--I would never sleep until I had it
back."
Ed smiled rather indulgently and indifferently.
"Well, you see," he went on, "I have gotten along so many years
without the use of that twenty thousand dollars that I did not miss
it when it was taken. Of course, I am losing interest on it, but I
can easily make that up."
"Then suppose we retire?" suggested Jack, for Ed was to be his guest
for the remainder of the night. "I am actually sweltering in these
togs. Aren't you in a hurry to get back into yourself and be just Ed
Foster?"
"No; I rather like being Adonis. I fancy I like him infinitely more
than I cotton to that Foster chap," and he laughed.
"Well, you made a hit," complimented Jack.
"Thanks."
Ed stood up and surveyed himself in a pier glass. He laughed at the
figure he presented, but there was a serious look upon his handsome
face.
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