I will take up the note when due, and the public need be none the wiser." "If," said Mrs.Dinneford, "he has forged your name once, he has, in all probability, done it again and again.

No, no; the thing can't be hushed up, and it must not be.

Is he less a thief and a robber because he is our son-in-law?
My daughter the wife of a forger! Great heavens! has it come to this Mr.Dinneford ?" she added, after a pause, and with intense bitterness and rejection in her voice.

"The die is cast! Never again, if I can prevent it, shall that scoundrel cross our threshold.

Let the law have its course.