“As for that, Dudley,” was the reply—“take my advice, and never waste your time inquiring after spent money. Enough for you, or any man, to know that it has gone—to the tomb of all those people one hears about. No use trying to hold a _post-mortem_ examination on the body of a defunct ten-pound note. For the rest, you both could and did have all the sums I have debited you with; they are regularly entered on their dates of payment in my books. First day you are down in the City, call in and check them off. I’d rather you would do so—more satisfactory for us both.” And with this Parthian shot, Mr. Black said “Good-day,” and shut the office-door after him, leaving Arthur far too much perplexed and bewildered to consider that a lie can be written as well as spoken, any day in the year, and that the mere fact of an entry to his debit being made on such and such a date, did not by any means of necessity prove that such debt had ever been incurred. END OF VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TINSLEY BROTHERS’ NEW NOVELS AT ALL LIBRARIES. _Black Sheep._ By EDMUND YATES, Author of “The Forlorn Hope,” “Kissing the Rod,” etc. Reprinted from “All the Year Round.” 3 vols. _Sowing the Wind._ By Mrs. E. LYNN LINTON, Author of “Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg,” etc. 3 vols. _Seventy-Five Brooke Street._ By PERCY FITZGERALD, Author of “The Second Mrs. Tillotson,” etc. 3 vols. _The Forlorn Hope._ By EDMUND YATES, Author of “Black Sheep,” “Kissing the Rod,” etc. 3 vols. _The Tallants of Barton._ By JOSEPH HATTON, Author of “Bitter Sweets,” etc. 3 vols. _Captain Jack; or, The Great Van Broek Property._ By J. A. MAITLAND. 2 vols. _Ada Moore’s Story._ 3 vols. TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18 CATHERINE STREET. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.