I have known so many, and it is always the same.

First, the diamonds, the champagne, the exquisite little dinners at the best restaurants, and at last the brazier, the closed doors and windows, and the cold stone slab.

There is a moral in it, my dear friend, but we will not look for it to-night.

When do you intend to commence business with your man ?" "At once," I answered.

"He knows that I am after him and my only fear is that he will make a bolt.