What interested him particularly in it was the fact that
he had met a couple of these financial highwaymen in social life; he
had come to know the son and heir of one of them quite well, at
Siegfried Harvey's. This gilded youth was engaged to be married in a
very few days, and the papers had it that the father-in-law had
presented the bride with a cheque for a million dollars. Montague
could not but wonder if it was the million that had been taken from
his client!
There was to be a "bachelor dinner" at the Millionaires' on the
night before the wedding, to which he and Oliver had been invited.
As he was thinking of taking up his case, he went to his brother,
saying that he wished to decline; but Oliver had been getting back
his courage day by day, and declared that it was more important than
ever now that he should hold his ground, and face his enemies--for
Alice's sake, if not for his own. And so Montague went to the
dinner, and saw deeper yet into the history of the stolen millions.
It was a very beautiful affair, in the beginning.
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