The reply that he received from England came from the lawyers employed by the new Earl.

They had arranged with their agents in New York to pay to the younger brother a legacy of a thousand pounds, which represented all that had been left to him by his father's will.

If he wrote again his letters would not be answered; his brother had done with him.

Treated in this inhuman manner, the wild lord became once more worthy of his name.

He tried a new life as a betting man at races and trotting-matches.