What a cursed fool the girl has been! But it is all that fellow Herrick's fault.

He is a deep one, and he has a game of his own on hand; I am as sure of that as that my name is Saul Jacobi.
Well, ta-ta, old fellow, I will let you know my diggings later on.

Hang that fellow! if it had not been for him we should have pulled the job through, and you would have had the handsomest wife in Europe.

Well, that game's played out, and I was never the one to cry over spilt milk.
'A short life and a merry one,' that's my creed .-- Yours up to date," "SAUL MELCHIOR JACOBI." "So we are rid of the brute for the present," observed Malcolm.

The expression seemed to alarm Dinah.
"For the present ?" she repeated anxiously.
"My dear lady," he returned gravely, "do you suppose that we have seen the last of Saul Jacobi ?" "Indeed--indeed, I hope so," very earnestly.
"Then 'hope told a flattering tale,' and you must not believe her," replied Malcolm smiling.