A second application was refused by her husband.

What followed on that, you know already." Having read the confession, Mr.Mool was permitted to take a copy, and to make any use of it which he might think desirable.

His one remaining anxiety was to hear what had become of the person who had planned the deception.

"Surely," he said, "that villain has not escaped punishment ?" Baccani answered this in his own bitter way.
"My dear sir, how can you ask such a simple question?
That sort of man always escapes punishment.

In the last extreme of poverty his luck provides him with somebody to cheat.