"Well, better late than never. It is fortunate that we met: it will save you another journey to-morrow night, you know." "Yes--I am glad that we have met, as my time is now too valuable to waste." "In that case, we can either return to the _Dark House_, which is open all night; or you can give me the money in the street. You don't require any receipt, I suppose?" "No: neither will you require to give me any." "So I thought: honour among thieves, eh? Excuse the compliment. But, in the first place, have you got the tin?" "I had the whole amount just now, in my pocket, when I first went to the _Dark House_." "Then I suppose it is all there still?" "Not all. I have parted with fifty pounds out of it." "The deuce you have! And how came you to do that?" demanded the Resurrection Man gruffly. "I gave you fair warning that I would take nothing less than the entire sum." "I obtained, in a most extraordinary manner, a proof of my innocence; and I think I purchased it cheaply at that rate. I would have given all I possessed in the world," added Markham, "to procure it." "The devil!" cried the Resurrection Man, who grew uneasy at the cold and indifferent way in which Markham spoke. "Well, I suppose I must take what you have got left. You can easily leave the remainder for me at the _Dark House_." "Not a shilling will you now obtain from me," ejaculated Richard firmly; "and I have waited to tell you so. I have made up my mind to reveal the entire truth, without reserve, to those from whom I was before foolishly and dishonourably anxious to conceal it." "This gammon won't do for me," cried the Resurrection Man. "You want to stall me off; but I'm too wide awake. Give me the tin, or I'll start off to-morrow morning to Richmond, and see the count upon--_you_ know what subject. Before I left that neighbourhood the other day, I made all the necessary inquiries about the people of the house which the young lady went into." "You may save yourself that trouble also," said Markham; "for I shall reveal all that you would unfold. But, in a word, you may do what you choose." "Come now," ejaculated the Resurrection Man, considerably crest-fallen; "assist an old companion in difficulties: lend me a hundred or so." "No," returned Richard in a resolute manner; "had you asked me in the first instance to assist you, I would have done so willingly;--but you have endeavoured to extort a considerable sum of money from me--much more than I could spare; and I should not now be justified in yielding to the prayers of a man who has found that his base menaces have failed." "You do not think I would have done what I said?" cried the Resurrection Man. "I believe you to be capable of any villany. But we have already conversed too long. I was anxious to show you how a virtuous resolution would enable me to triumph over your base designs;--and I have now nothing more to say to you. Our ways lie in different directions, both at present and in future. Farewell."