O idiot! And he hated the thought of leaving his bill unpaid; the more so because it was a trifling sum, a week's settlement.

To put himself under however brief an obligation to a woman such as the landlady gnawed at his pride.

Not that only.

He had no business to make a demand upon his mother for this additional sum.

But there was no way of raising the money; no one of whom he could borrow it; nothing he could afford to sell--even if courage had supported him through such a transaction.