44/70 How much will you need for immediate use? "Just railroad fare home, and then to Kansas, and to pay board while I get well, you know, and look around." "We'll make it five hundred, anyway," she replied, and, rising, she went toward the library. "Excuse me a moment." She wrote the check and, returning, gave it to him. "You have no idea how much it means to me to be permitted to help you. Before I forget, I must ask you, can you cash that check here in New York ?" "Not unless you identify me," he said, ruefully, "I don't know anyone I could ask." "Well, when you leave here go at once to my bank--it's on Thirty-fourth Street--and I'll telephone the cashier. |