He gave them to Lord Atherton, who, still standing, read them word for word.
"It is as I thought," he said, when he came to the last.

"It is the worst case of fraud, deception and cowardice I have ever met.

Nothing could be more mean, more dishonorable, more revolting.

Still, as the promise is true, I will give you a check for two thousand pounds when you have destroyed them." Very slowly and deliberately Allan Lyster tore the letters into the smallest shreds, until they all were destroyed, then Lord Atherton, taking a check book from his pocket, wrote him out a check for two thousand pounds.
Allan took it sullenly enough.
"If I had my rights," he said, "I should have more than that every quarter." "That is as it may be," said Lord Atherton, quietly.

"You may have deceived a very young and inexperienced girl; but you would not, perhaps, have been so successful when that same girl was able to compare you with others.