Northway had already, some years before, been in the hands of the police in London.

It came out now that he was keeping a mistress; on the eve of marriage he had dispensed with her services, and the woman, in revenge, went to his employers to let them know certain suspicious facts.

He was sent to penal servitude for three years." "Three years!" murmured Glazzard.

"About so ago, I suppose ?" "Yes; perhaps he is already restored to society.

Pleasant reflection!" "Moral and discreet law," remarked the other, "which maintains the validity of such a marriage!" Denzil uttered a few violent oaths, reminiscences of the Navy.
"And she went at once to Sweden ?" Glazzard inquired.
"In a month or two the head-mistress of her school, a sensible woman, helped her to get an engagement--with not a word said of the catastrophe.