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Stone carried all that he could , at enormous usury , I understand , and let some of his banker friends in on the rest ; and I suppose the banks paid him a rake-off . The ten-year period is up this fall , and their bonds are naturally retired ; but , of course , they will renew . '' `` I 'm not so sure about that , '' said Bobby . `` Look up everything connected with it in the morning , and I 'll see you at noon . '' When they met the next day at noon , however , before Bobby could talk about the business in hand , Chalmers , with a suppressed smile , handed him a folded slip of paper . Bobby examined that legal document -- a dissolution of the injunction which had tied up a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in his bank for more than two years -- with a sigh of relief . `` It seems , '' said Chalmers dryly , `` that at the time you laid yourself liable to Madam Villenauve 's breach-of-promise suit she had an undivorced husband living , Monsieur Villenauve complacently hiding himself in France and waiting for his share of the money .