Two or three other people were implicated in the gambling business--men of good family.

Altogether it was one of the biggest scandals I remember in my time." The old man paused, the long frowning face sternly set.

Aldous gazed at him in silence.

It was certainly pretty bad--worse than he had thought.
"And the wife and child ?" he said presently.
"Oh, poor things!"-- said Lord Maxwell, forgetting everything for the moment but his story--"when Boyce's imprisonment was up they disappeared with him.

His constituents held indignation meetings, of course.