The poor consolation remained of making an attempt to get him struck off "the Rolls;" but when the City firm of solicitors in whose hands Gilbert had placed Mrs.Saltram's affairs suggested this.

Marian herself entreated that the man might have the benefit of the doubt as to his complicity with her father, and that no effort should be made to bring legal ruin upon him.
"There has been enough misery caused by this money already," she said.
"Let the matter rest.

I am richer than I care to be, as it is." Of course Mr.Medler was not allowed to retain his position as executor.
The Court of Chancery was appealed to in the usual manner, and intervened for the future protection of Mrs.Saltram's interests.
About Nowell's conduct there was, of course, no doubt; but after wasting a good deal of money and trouble in his pursuit, Gilbert was fain to abandon all hope of catching him in the wide regions of the new world.

It was ascertained that the woman who had accompanied him in the _Orinoco_ as his daughter was actually his wife--a girl whom he had met at some low London dancing-rooms, and married within a fortnight of his introduction to her.

It is possible that prudence as well as attachment may have had something to do with this alliance.