Take a friend's advice and get to America.
A young man with brains can always do something out there, and you can live down this little mischance.

It will be a cheap lesson if it teaches you to take nothing upon trust in business, and to insist upon knowing exactly what your partner is doing, however senior he may be to you.
"Yours faithfully, "JEREMIAH PEARSON." "Great Heavens!" groaned the Admiral, "he has absconded." "And left me both a bankrupt and a thief." "No, no, Harold," sobbed his mother.

"All will be right.

What matter about money!" "Money, mother! It is my honor." "The boy is right.

It is his honor, and my honor, for his is mine.