"I am interested in him upon your account."

"I cannot tell you anything about him. I do not know how you could have
discovered even his name."

"I learned that at Wygrove, where I first heard of your marriage."

"Did you go to Wygrove, then?"

"Yes; I have told you that I spared no pains to find you. Nor shall I
spare any pains to discover the history of the man who has wronged me. It
would be wiser for you to be frank with me, Marian. Rely upon it that I
shall sooner or later learn the secret underlying this treacherous
business."

"You profess to be my friend, and yet are avowedly say husband's enemy.
Why cannot you be truly generous, Gilbert, and pardon him? Believe me, he
was not willingly treacherous; it was his fate to do you this wrong."

"A poor excuse for a man, Marian. No, my charity will not stretch far
enough for that. But I do not come to you quite on a selfish errand, to
speak solely of my own wrongs. I have something to tell you of real
importance to yourself."

"What is that?"

Gilbert Fenton described the result of his first advertisement, and his
acquaintance with Jacob Nowell.

"It is my impression that this old man is rich, Marian; and there is