If that old story leaks out I may once more be ruined." "But who did it, Father ?" asked Lorna.

"Had you no clew at all ?" "Not enough to convict, only a strong suspicion, so strong that it is practically a certainty.

The man who ruined me was once my friend.

Now for five long years, he has been my bitterest enemy.

We were both heads of departments in the firm of Burgess and Co.