The fifty pounds was raised on a bill bearing Mr.Emblem's name.

When it was presented, however, and the circumstances explained, the old gentleman, who had at first refused to own the signature, accepted it meekly, and told no one that his grandson had written it himself, without the polite formality of asking permission to sign for him.

In other words Joseph was a forger, and Mr.Chalker knew it, and this made him the more astonished when Mr.Emblem did not take up the bill, but got it renewed quarter after quarter, substituting at length a bill of sale, as if he was determined to pay as much as possible for his grandson's sins.
"Where is he ?" asked the money-lender angrily.

"Why doesn't he come down and face his creditors ?" "Master's upstairs," said James, "and you've seen yourself, Mr.
Chalker, that he is off his chump.

And oh, sir, who would have thought that Emblem's would have come to ruin ?" "But there's something, James--Come, think--there must be something." "Mr.Joseph said there were thousands.