The rest are no good.

The second son, the present heir, is a helpless invalid, the third is in a sanatorium for consumption, and the fourth was the proverbial prodigal, and disappeared.

If Lord Glyncraig knows where he is, nobody else does." "Hadn't the one who was drowned any children ?" "Only a girl.

The second and third aren't married." "Then will the estate have to go to the prodigal in the end ?" "I suppose so, if he's alive, and turns up to claim it." "Peers have their troubles as much as commoners," commented Ulyth.

"I've never heard this before.