He was not the sort of person to go into raptures about three thousand pounds, though such a sum must needs have seemed to him the wealth of a small Rothschild.

"I know I want money badly enough, and am ready and willing to work for it conscientiously, if I get the chance.

But to return to this Matthew Haygarth.

Your idea is that there may have been a marriage previous to the one at Ullerton ?" "Precisely.

Of course there may have been no such previous marriage; but you see it's on the cards; and since it is on the cards, my notion is that we had better hunt up the history of Matthew Haygarth's life in London, and try to find our heir-at-law there before we go in for the Judsons.