"But I don't want to play against you any longer.

Your luck is bad." "I can beat you," said Darlington.
"You hav'n't done it to-day certainly," answered Barling.
"Will you wait here a quarter of an hour ?" asked Henry.
"For what ?" "I want to pay you off and begin again.

I am going for some money." "Yes, I'll wait," replied the young man.
"Very well.

I'll be back in a few minutes." It was for this work and for this purpose that Henry Darlington came to his mother just at the moment the absence of Miriam and her purpose in leaving had been discovered.

The effect of the painful news on the young man has already been described.