The Crimson Cryptogram

The wicked are not always punished in this world,

When a woman finds her master in an honourable, generous, kindly man, her happiness is assured.

People who do most are thought least of, and it is your selfish person who gets all the love and the praise

Women, Dr. Ellis, do not as a rule admire one another,

he is secretive, and secretive people are always very dangerous to those of a more open disposition.

"'There lives some soul of good in all things evil,'" quoted Ellis.

"It is the most sensible men who become the greatest fools on occasions," he said, with the rough speech of intimate friendship. "You have

"Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
'Tis woman's whole existence."

Matrimony is a luxury a poor man must dispense with, if he wants to get on

"Poverty, naked and unconcealed! One can endure that, with some patience, as a beaten soldier in the battle of life. But genteel pauperism--the semi-poverty of the middle-class, that lives a necessary lie at the cost of incessant worry and constant defeat--there you have the true misery of life. Believe me, Cass, there is no torture like that of an ambition which cannot be attained for lack of money."