"Ends it? Really, how good! how very good!"
Sir Bale looked at him, for there was something ambiguous and even derisive in the tone of Feltram's voice.
But before he could quite make up his mind, Feltram spoke again.
"Everything is settled about you and me?"
"There is nothing to prevent your staying at Mardykes now," said Sir Bale graciously.
"I shall be with you for two years, and then I go on my travels," answered Feltram, with a saturnine and somewhat wild look around him.
"Is he going mad?" thought the Baronet.
"But before I go, I'm to put you in a way of paying off your mortgages. That is my business here."
Sir Bale looked at him sharply. But now there was not the unpleasant smile, but the darkened look of a man in secret pain.
"You shall know it all by and by."