The Law of the Land by Fred M. White

Dick had touched Barca at last. He had sacrificed a great many of his dearest ambitions to get this money, and to see it slipping from his grasp was maddening. He was about to burst out indignantly, but Charteris stopped him.

"One moment," he said. "There is one way of keeping the money which you have obtained. I do you the justice to remark, more for the sake of a woman than for your own. Our hands are not quite clean, so we shall be prepared to make terms when the time comes. You will permit me to despatch a telegram to-morrow in your name, to Mrs. Lingen asking her to come down here on urgent business as soon as possible.