Understand, however, that I shall start to-morrow morning, and unless you like to remain here on a visit to him, you had better go with me." Mr.Jones signified his compliance with the hint, and so Miss Scarborough had done her work.
Mr.Scarborough, when thus left alone, spent his time chiefly in thinking of the condition of his sons.

His eldest son, Mountjoy, who had ever been his favorite, whom as a little boy he had spoiled by every means in his power, was a ruined man.

His debts had all been paid, except the money due to the money-lenders.

But he was not the less a ruined man.

Where he was at this moment his father did not know.