 A little too fond of food for the tastes of his fellow-criminals, he resents being taught lessons, but when his schemes are discovered by his adopted parent his future is mapped out as one learning experience after another.A sleek-haired, pale young man, known to his intimates and the personal paragraphs of sporting weeklies as 'Tanky', hard-drinking socialite Gifford is in company with Cynthia Drassilis early in "The Little Nugget".His attentions to the young lady anger Peter Burns, who refers to Gifford as 'a most unspeakable little cad', and ends up engaged to Cynthia to keep her out of the clutches of such unsavoury men.