`` they 're locked in a strongbox at my flat on old road bay , and include the following : a total of seven dollars and eighteen cents for local calls to tranquility -- i would not use my official phone ; twenty-three dollars and sixty-five cents for the long- distance call to paris ; sixty-eight dollars and eighty cents ... dinner for myself and my nephew at vue point , a business conference , naturally -- '' `` that will do , '' interrupted jonathan lemuel , wiping his perspiring black brow with a handkerchief , although the tropical fan was perfectly adequate for the room .