My dear boy, I am sorry to give you this shock, but do you actually mean to tell me that you do not know, that Leah Jacobi is a widow--that neither she nor her brother have informed you of her previous marriage ?" "No," broke from Cedric's lips; he seemed quite stunned.

Then he exclaimed indignantly, "But it is a lie--a cursed lie!" "You would hardly dare to say that to Hugh Rossiter's face, Cedric," returned Malcolm somewhat sternly.

"He was my informant; he knew the Jacobis when Saul Jacobi was a billiard-marker in San Francisco, and his sister living with her husband in Verona.

You have been badly treated, my dear boy--how badly you little know.

You have been encouraged to make love to a married woman.