"She never spoke untruthfully, she never deceived me; but on our wedding-day I discovered that her father was a convict--a man of the lowest criminal type." Lord Mountdean looked as he felt, shocked.
"But how," he asked, eagerly, "could you be so deceived ?" "That I can never tell you; it was an act of fiendish revenge--cruel, ruthless, treacherous.

I cannot reveal the perpetrator.

My wife did not deceive me, did not even know that I had been deceived; she thought, poor child, that I was acquainted with the whole of her father's story, but I was not.

And now, Lord Mountdean, tell me, do you think I did wrong ?" He raised his care-worn, haggard face as he asked the question and the earl was disturbed at sight of the terrible pain in it..