One fact soon became apparent--he had been paying the rogue's game on a pretty liberal scale, having borrowed on his checks, from business friends and brokers, not less than sixty or seventy thousand dollars.

It was estimated, on a thorough examination of his business, that he had gone off with at least a hundred thousand dollars.

To this amount Mrs.
Dinneford had contributed from her private fortune the sum of twenty thousand dollars.

Not until she had furnished him with that large amount would he consent to leave the city.

He magnified her danger, and so overcame her with terrors that she yielded to his exorbitant demand.
On the day a public newspaper announcement of Freeling's rascality was made, Mrs.Dinneford went to bed sick of a nervous fever, and was for a short period out of her mind.
Neither Mr.Dinneford nor Edith had failed to notice a change in Mrs.
Dinneford.