As I had no way of paying it back, I might as well have taken it as a gift.

There wasn't anything he could offer, after this, except to get me a free pass; and as he had no way of doing that, he gave up the job, and we all went down to supper.

That evening, as I was putting a few things into a small valise which I had bought,--as our trunks were lost on the "Tigris," I had very little trouble in packing up,--I said to Rectus that by the time he started off he could lay in a new stock of clothes.

I had made out our accounts, and had his money ready to hand over to him, but I knew that his father had arranged for him to draw on a Savannah bank, both for the tug-boat money and for money for himself.

I think that Mr.Colbert would have authorized me to do this drawing, if Rectus had not taken the matter into his own hands when he telegraphed.