I know that he has been in a very fast and fashionable set; he told me as much; also that he has spent a good deal of money.

One check for three thousand pounds vanished in a day, and he gave no account of it." "Three thousand pounds!" cried Lady Carruthers; "yet he neither drank, betted nor gambled." "No," said the lawyer; "Mr.Carruthers told me he had never touched a card and never would.

I know he did not care for betting." The proud, anxious mother raised her eyes to the lawyer's face.

"How, then, do you think he has got through it ?" "I cannot tell.

You must pardon me, my lady, if I remind you that although I am family solicitor, agent and manager of the property, I am not the guardian of your son." "I know," she said, clasping her hands.