Meantime a note was brought to Colonel Clifford from Grace: "Papa was the witness.
He is quite sure the bridegroom was not our Walter.

He thinks it must have been the other clerk, Leonard Monckton, who robbed Mr.Bartley, and put some of the money into dear Walter's pockets to ruin him, but papa saved him.

Don't let him escape." Colonel Clifford's eye flashed with triumph, but he controlled himself.
"Say I will give it due attention," said he; "I'm busy now." And the servant retired.
"Now, sir," said he, "is this a case of mistaken identity, or is your name Leonard Monckton ?" "Colonel Clifford," said the hypocrite, sadly, "I little thought that I should be made to suffer for the past, since I came here only on an errand of mercy.

Yes, sir, in my unregenerate days I was Leonard Monckton.

I disgraced the name.