He is also paying off the Dominey mortgages.

He has apparently made a fortune in Africa." The Duke collapsed into an easy-chair.
"Everard pay his debts ?" he exclaimed.

"Everard Dominey pay off the mortgages ?" "That is what I understand," his wife acquiesced.
The Duke clutched at the last refuge of a weak but obstinate man.

His mouth came together like a rat-trap.
"There's something wrong about it somewhere," he declared..