I and my father have not lost our pride." Seaforth sighed as he turned away, and, when he rejoined Alton, stared at the lights of the city savagely, while as they passed along the water-front he said, "Will you give me a cigar, Harry ?" Alton drew out his cigar-case, glanced at it a moment, and then tossed it across the wharf.

"What right have you and I to be going back to dinner when that girl hasn't enough to eat ?" he said.

"You know what those cigars cost me.

Lord, what selfish brutes we are! Now stop right here and tell me what we are going to do!" Seaforth made a gesture of helplessness.

"The difficulty is that one can't do anything," he said.