How he managed to exist after this, I hardly know.

He was very much mixed up with a disreputable lot of turf-men, and I believe he made money by betting.

His mother robbed me for him, I found out afterwards, and contrived to send him a good deal of money at odd times.

My business as a dealer in second-hand silver was better then than it is now, and I had had so much money passing through my hands that it was pretty easy for my wife to cheat me.

Poor soul! she has been dead and gone these fifteen years, and I have freely forgiven her.