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GOLLY'S room at Arbroath Building was large and would have been airy if the windows had been opened and the heavy stuff curtains drawn. It had a bed, a chair and a table. To those you might add a strip of carpet, ludicrously inadequate, in the centre of the room. The table was of the type that can be found in architects' offices, a plain, deal, unpainted board, supported on two trestles; and neatly stacked hereon were scores of plans, survey maps, books of reference, time-tables, private tables compiled in Golly's terrible handwriting.
He was studying one of the three bank-books which he invariably carried about with him by day and took to bed with him at night. This book dealt with an account in the greatest of the Brazilian banks, and it showed so satisfactory a balance that he might say with truth that, even if Lila Smith's fortune was too dangerous to claim, he could yet live in luxury all the rest of his life.