'"
"Gadley? Why that's the landlord of the 'Three Pigeons!'" exclaimed
Rosamond. "It is Mr. Moy's house, and he supports him through thick
and thin."
"Yes," said Julius, "the magistrates have been on the point of
taking away his license, but Moy always stands up for him. There is
something suspicious in that."
"I heard Miss Moy, with my own ears, tell Mrs. Duncombe that he was
the apple of her father's eye," cried Rosamond.
"He's bribed! he's bribed! Oh, I see it all. Well, go on, Anne.
If Archie isn't at home before he is a year older--"
Anne went on. "'He allowed that he would have done more wisely in
facing it out and standing his trial; but he said, poor fellow, that
he felt as if the earth had given way under him. There was not a
soul near who believed him; they brought his father's history
against him, and moreover he had been at the races, and had been
betting, though in fact he had won, and not lost, and the 201. he
had become possessed of was his capital, besides the little he could
draw out of the bank
"'If he could only have seen Jenny in London she would have turned
him back.
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