And here was another offer to cash a check--the second this morning.

Good address and an expensive tailor certainly did count: with them as capital, a man could take a profit at any time.

Gray's fingers strayed to the small change in his trousers pocket and he turned longing eyes back toward the bank interior.

Without doubt it was a temptation, especially inasmuch as at that moment his well-manicured right hand held in its grasp every cent that he possessed.
This was not the first time he had been broke.

On the contrary, during his younger days he had more than once found himself in that condition and had looked upon it as an exciting experience, as a not unpleasant form of adventure.