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His remark, that if I lent him another ten pounds he might be able to do me another good turn, arose in my mind. It was strange he showed no surprise at seeing me enter his office.

Was it possible that my wife, who knew I had at one time business relations with this man, had sent to have me watched? Or, horror of horrors! had she followed me herself?

I was never quite satisfied about the noise outside the door when Peter Dodd first proposed the unfortunate trip to Boulogne.

I soon, however, learned the worst. The tall man, who apparently did not perceive me, was drinking with some persons at the bar, and was relating to them with great glee, how nicely I was being done; and Peter Dodd's wife and mine were the two dominos who had watched us, and who had engaged this drunken fellow to assist them!

Needless to say, these revelations came upon me like a thunderclap in a summer sky. I immediately rushed back to the theatre to inform Peter of the dreadful discovery I had made. To my utter amazement, I found him waltzing with his own wife, the other domino (my "better half") looking on!