There are but slight grounds for hope, and yet I am not at all disposed to despair, although I cannot tell why." "It cannot be possible," observed Bimey, "that that wicked old baronet could ultimately prosper in his villainy.

I speak, of course, upon the supposition that he is, or was, the bottom of the business.

Your, safest and best plan is to find out his agents in the business, if it can be done." "I shall leave nothing unattempted," replied the other; "and if we fail, we shall at least have the satisfaction of having done our duty.

The lapse of time, however, is against us;--perhaps the agents are dead." "If this man is guilty," said the attorney, "he is nothing more nor less than a modern Macbeth.

However, go on, and keep up your resolution; effort will do much.