I'm simply a decent sort of a man, who is pretty badly scared over what he's done in a moment of temptation.

You know I had no thought of anything except to borrow enough on my I.O.

U.'s to make a killing at Burbank's.

I had to show them something big, so I filled in that cheque, not meaning to use it; and before I knew it I'd indorsed it, and was plunging against it.
Then they stacked everything on me--by God, they did! and if I had not been in the condition I was in I'd have stopped payment.

But it was too late when I realised what I was against.