Egad! Has he not lost enough in the South Sea Bubble, without sinking the little that is left in some wild-goose Jacobite plot ?" "How shall it matter to you, since he's sworn to disinherit you ?" "How, madam ?" Rotherby laughed cunningly.

"I'll prevent the one and the other--and pay off Mr.Caryll at the same time.

Three birds with one stone, let me perish!" He reached for his hat.

"I must find this fellow Green." "What will you do ?" she asked, a slight anxiety trembling in her voice.
"Stir up his suspicions of Caryll.

He'll be ready enough to act after his discomfiture at Maidstone.