Send Bowles out.

Do what you can to soften the disappointment.

Tell those who come it was all owing to unforeseen circumstances.

Oh, my dear daughter," she put her arm around Mattie's neck, drew her to her and kissed her, "how can we look Bowling Green in the face after this?
We never shall, and yet your father is a scholar and a gentleman." Chapman's excitement began to return with his wife's recovery; indeed it soon became her turn to soothe his troubled mind.
"Gusher--the handsome young gentleman--is in prison, eh, and turns out to be--" "My dear wife," interrupted Chapman, again giving way to his feelings, "he turns out to be Louis Pinto, an impostor.

That's the whole of it--except what there may be in this paper." He drew a newspaper from his pocket, and pointing to an article headed: "A Notorious Impostor caught at Last," said: "There, my dear, read that." It gave a very long account, or rather history of the prisoner's exploits in Havana and New Orleans, his operations in New York, financially as well as socially, and indeed all the circumstances attending his career since he arrived in the city, his connection with the great Kidd Discovery Company, and not forgetting to mention that he was to have been married this day to a lovely and interesting young lady--the daughter of a highly respectable family.
"Have read enough, my dear," said Mrs.Chapman, putting the paper aside quietly.