"It shall go hard with me but I will be equal with him yet!" He had played his last card and lost; henceforward there was nothing for him but hard work and dishonor.

He knew that what Lord Atherton had said was true; if any one knew what he had done, nothing but hatred and disgust would be his portion.
Lord Atherton went at once to Scotland Yard and asked for a detective.
He showed him the portrait of his wife, told him she had left home under a false impression, and that he would give him fifty pounds if he could trace her.
For a week all effort was in vain, they could hear nothing of her; then one morning Lord Atherton saw an advertisement in the "Times," and he said to himself that the lost was found..