Only remember we are not now dealing with Robert Ratman, but with an injured man who has not had a fair chance.

The good in him," continued the father, deluded by the passive look on his daughter's face, and becoming suddenly warm in his championship of the absent creditor, "has been smothered; but for aught we know it may still be there.

A wife--" She stopped him with a peremptory motion of her hand.
"Please do not say anything more.

Your debt--when does it fall due ?" "In a week or ten days, my child.

Consider--" She interrupted again.
"No more, please," she said, almost imploringly.