The wolves and the lamb

CHAPTER I

THE WOLVES

“Three Hundred Thousand Pounds! And in the hand of an inexperienced youngster of twenty-one. And--incidentally--in Mr. Barclay Leverton’s!”

Carsdale flung down the letter which he had been reading, and with a cynical laugh that came as a note of exclamation at the end of his involuntary burst into speech, crossed the room, and throwing open the windo...