“Indeed, father! Why?”
“They say he has committed forgery, my boy, and done no end of ill, and—and—”
“And what, father?” cried Lake, whose eyes were flashing with eagerness.
“He has been cast into prison, my boy, and they say it is a terribly bad case.”
Part 3, Chapter IV.
An Important Brief.
Luke Ross sat on the edge of his table for a few minutes gazing into vacancy, and at times it was with a look akin to triumph that he pondered upon the fall of the man who had been his one enemy—him who had seemed to turn the whole current of his life.
But as the old man watched his countenance, a sadder, softer mood came over it, and he said, as he turned once more to meet his father’s eyes—