Within a month of that time he had blown his brains out in his London lodgings, thus making over the entire property to Will Belton at his father's death.

At that last pretended settlement with his father and his father's lawyer, he had kept back the mention of debts as heavy nearly as those to which he had owned; and there were debts of honour, too, of which he had not spoken, trusting to the next event at Newmarket to set him right.

The next event at Newmarket had set him more wrong than ever, and so there had come an end to everything with Charles Amedroz.
This had happened in the spring, and the afflicted father,--afflicted with the double sorrow of his son's terrible death and his daughter's ruin,--had declared that he would turn his face to the wall and die.
But the old squire's health, though far from strong, was stronger than he had deemed it, and his feelings, sharp enough, were less sharp than he had thought them; and when a month had passed by, he had discovered that it would be better that he should live, in order that his daughter might still have bread to eat and a house of her own over her head.

Though he was now an impoverished man, there was still left to him the means of keeping up the old home; and he told himself that it must, if possible, be so kept that a few pounds annually might be put by for Clara.

The old carriage-horses were sold, and the park was let to a farmer, up to the hall door of the castle.