“As if I needed telling that,” she said with a proud smile. “Now I am waiting, tell me all.”
“Oh, there is little to tell,” he said quickly. “That fellow Crellock, by his plausible baits, has led me into all kinds of speculations.”
“I thought so,” she said to herself.
“I failed in one, and then he tempted me to try another to cover my loss; and so it went on and on, till—”
“Till what?” she said with her eyes dilating; and a chill feeling of horror which startled her began to creep to her heart.
“Till the losses were so great that large sums of money were necessary, and—”
“Robert!”
“Don’t look at me in that way, Milly,” he said, with a half-laugh, “you are not going to begin by distrusting me?”
“No, no,” she panted.
“Well, till large sums were necessary, and the scoundrel literally forced me to raise money from the bank.”