12/33 I doubt if he has a stiver left. I know he drew some money from the _Craftsman_ yesterday." "What, does he write for that scurrilous, venomous print ?" cried Gay, visibly disturbed. He hates the paper and he hates Amherst, who owns it. But what is a man to do when poverty knocks at the door ?" "That may be. Still--I wish he had nothing to do with that abusive fellow, Nicholas Amherst, who calls himself 'Caleb D'Anvers,' why I know not, unless he's ashamed of the name his father gave him. |