Certainly, if you are going to try and enlist my sympathies on behalf of Edith Crawford, I can assure you you won't succeed." "Well, I don't know that that is altogether my intention.

I see you are interested in the case, but I dare say you don't remember all the circumstances.

You must forgive me if I repeat that which you know already.

If you have ever been to Edinburgh at all, you will have heard of Graham's bank, and Mr.Andrew Graham, the present head of the firm, is undoubtedly one of the most prominent notabilities of 'modern Athens.'" The man in the corner took two or three photos from his pocket-book and placed them before the young girl; then, pointing at them with his long bony finger-- "That," he said, "is Mr.Elphinstone Graham, the eldest son, a typical young Scotchman, as you see, and this is David Graham, the second son." Polly looked more closely at this last photo, and saw before her a young face, upon which some lasting sorrow seemed already to have left its mark.

The face was delicate and thin, the features pinched, and the eyes seemed almost unnaturally large and prominent.
"He was deformed," commented the man in the corner in answer to the girl's thoughts, "and, as such, an object of pity and even of repugnance to most of his friends.