Part 65 (1/2)
”It's true,” said the undersecretary, laughing, ”that the situation is not very strong.”
”What is the danger?”
”The only danger is your friend, the famous financier. He is the one who could play us a dirty trick.”
”Do you suspect what it could be?” ”No. Not clearly. You must know better than any one else.”
”I have just seen the Minister, and he gave me the impression of being satisfied.”
”Then everything is all right. But I haven't much confidence.”
Caesar left the undersecretary, went out of the Chamber, and returned home in the carriage. Alzugaray was waiting in the entry for him.
Caesar called to him from the carriage:
”I am going to Paris,” he told him, ”to spend a few days.”
”Good.”
”I must draw out what money I have in the Bank.”
”Let's go there now.”
They went to the Bank, to the paying teller, and Caesar drew out twenty thousand pesetas of his few months' winnings on the market.
”You are not going to play at all, this month?” asked Alzugaray.
”No, not this month.”
They left the Bank.
”I will wire you my address in Paris,” said Caesar.
”Very good. And nothing is to be done?”
”No. That is to say, my partner and I are not going to play.
Nevertheless, I am going to leave you two thousand pesetas, and if you think well, you can use it as you choose.”
”All right,” said Alzugaray, pleased at Caesar's confidence in his talents for speculation.
”In case I need any information which had best not be public,” Caesar went on, ”I will wire you in code. Do you know the Aran code?”
”No.”
”I will give it to you, directly, at my house. If you receive a telegram from me from Paris, beginning with your name: 'Ignacio, do thus or so,'
you will know it is in the code.”