WE will not trace, minutely, the particulars attendant on the headlong downward course of Henry Ellis.

The causes leading thereto have been fully set forth, and we need not refer back to them.

Enough, that the fall was complete.

The wretched man appeared to lose all strength of mind, all hope in life, all self-respect.

Not even a feeble effort was opposed to the down-rushing torrent of disaster that swept away every vestige of his business.