housand, four hundred thousand! It may take me all my life!... 
Patience! Patience, indeed! ... Fool! Fool!' 
There was a noise of boots on the brick floor of the bar, and 
Mrs Hall could not stay to hear any more. When she returned, 
the room was silent again except for the faint sound of his chair 
and now and then of a bottle. It was all over; the stranger had