Neither you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you admitted him into your family circle.

He is one of the most dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience.

Your niece knew nothing of such men.

When he breathed his vows to her, as he had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she alone had touched his heart.

The devil knows best what he said, but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing him nearly every evening." "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an ashen face.
"I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night.
Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which leads into the stable lane.