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victimized him.

Andrew Cameron had not quite done this; he had meant well enough by his uncle at first; and what he had finally done he tried to justify to himself by the doctrine that a man must look out for Number One.

Margaret Lloyd made no such excuses for him; she held him responsible, not only for her lost fortune, but for her fathers death and never forgave him for it. When Abraham Lloyd had died, Andrew Cameron, perhaps pricked by his conscience, had come to her, sleekly and smoothly, to offer his financial aid. He would see, he told her, that she never suffered want.