I never heard of him from the day he left the counting-house until Astor M'Kree read his name from that letter, but I thought of him a good bit.

It is hard enough for a man to do well with an unblemished character, but to be thrown out of a situation branded as a gambler is ruin, and nothing short of it." "What became of the other man--the one who was a gambler ?" asked Katherine.
"I don't know.

He remained with the firm until the crash came.

I fancy Selincourt's fate made a great impression on him, for I never heard of his gambling after Selincourt's dismissal," answered her father.
"How strange that he could not clear himself! Do you expect he had been gambling really, as well as the other one ?" Katherine said quickly.
"I am sure he had not," replied 'Duke Radford.

"He was not that sort at all.