You go right down to that bank over there on the corner and buy a steamer ticket and a long letter of credit.

Then take the first train for New York and go back to your mother and stay there till I send for you to come home.

I mean that--every word of it.

If you don't skip I'm damned if I don't go to Bassett and tell him this whole rotten story." Allen, the tears glistening in his frightened eyes, turned toward the door.
"Good-bye, Dan, old man; I'm sorry it had to end this way.

I'm disappointed, that's all." He paused after opening the door, hoping to be called back, but Harwood had walked to the window and stood with his hands in his pockets staring into the street..