And yet, incredible as it may seem, he had spent four days in New York, entertained everywhere, and made much of, and hadn't borrowed a cent.

He had been asked to lunch in a Riverside palace, and, fool that he was, had come away without so much as a dollar to show for it.

He had been asked to a country house on the Hudson, and, like an idiot--he admitted it himself--hadn't asked his host for as much as his train fare.

He had been driven twice round Central Park in a motor and had been taken tamely back to his hotel not a dollar the richer.

The thing was childish, and he knew it.