The ready-money transactions had not lasted long through the night.

Grasslough was the chief loser, and the figures and scraps of paper which had been passed over to Carbury, when counted up, amounted to nearly L2,000.

His lordship contested the fact bitterly, but contested it in vain.

There were his own initials and his own figures, and even Miles Grendall, who was supposed to be quite wide awake, could not reduce the amount.

Then Grendall had lost over L400 to Carbury,--an amount, indeed, that mattered little, as Miles could, at present, as easily have raised L40,000.