“Very large.”
“If you insist on their being paid instanter, what will be the result to him?”
“Utter and irretrievable ruin.”
“Beggary, Nathan, beggary?”
“The most abject beggary, and imprisonment as well, for the property he once owned is so deeply mortgaged, that not a farthing will be available to pay my new claims upon him.”
Wilton compressed his hands together.
“And his family—his proud, haughty family, Nathan, what of them?”
“They must necessarily be thrown on the world, wholly destitute.”
Wilton rubbed his hands with savage pleasure.
“Who are his mortgagees—do you know their names and addresses?” he asked, in a hissing whisper.