I was poor, but he in a sense was poorer still, because he had an invalid father and young sisters dependent on him." "Father, surely there is no need to tell me of this dead-and-buried action, unless you wish it, for the telling can do no good now," burst out Katherine, who could not bear to see the pain in her father's face.
"A wrong is never dead and buried while the man lives who did it," 'Duke Radford answered with a wan smile, "for his conscience has a trick of rounding on him when he least expects it, and then there is trouble, at least that is how it has been with me.

One day a complaint was lodged with our business chiefs that one of the clerks had been gambling, was an habitual gambler in fact.

I was not the one, and I was not suspected, but I knew very well which one it was; but when suspicion fell on Selincourt, I just kept silent.

For some reason he could not clear himself, was dismissed, and I was promoted.

But the promotion did me little good; the firm went bankrupt in the following year, and I was adrift myself." "What became of Selincourt ?" asked Katherine, and was instantly sorry she had spoken, because of the pain in her father's face.
"I don't know.