That week he had started out with the determination to eat but two meals a day.

He would thus save five cents daily and by Sunday morning would be thirty cents to the good.

But each day his resolution broke down.

At breakfast he would resolve to go without his lunch, at lunch he would make up his mind to go without supper, and at supper he would tell himself that now at least his determination was irrevocable--he would eat no breakfast the next morning.

But on each and every occasion his hunger proved too strong, his feet carried him irresistibly to the saloon lunch counters, whether he would or no.