The debt had not been altogether of his own making, and the arrangement would, he believed, serve his whole family as well as himself.

It would also serve his son, who was blessed with a third property of his own which he had already managed to burden with debt.

The father could not bear to be refused; and he feared that his son would decline.

'But Adolphus wants money as much as any one,' Lady Pomona had said.

He had shaken his head, and pished and pshawed.