If he fails, he won't have a dollar to get out of this city with, for the mine won't count.

He can't even hold it unless he puts in his assessment work on it, and he couldn't do that without something to live on in the meanwhile.

He hasn't a friend in Canada from whom he could borrow a dollar." Ida said nothing, and Stirling added, as if in explanation: "I might be willing to give him a lift if it were absolutely necessary, but it seems that he's quite determined not to take a favor from me.

He didn't offer me any reason for adopting that attitude." He looked at the girl rather curiously, and she noticed the significance of his last sentence.

Stirling had not said that he was unacquainted with Weston's reason, but he seemed to be waiting for her to make a suggestion, and she found the situation embarrassing.
"Well," she said, "he probably has one that seems sufficient to him." Stirling said nothing further on the subject, and presently went out and left her; but her expression changed when he had done so, and she sat very still, with one hand tightly closed, for she now realized what the cost of her lover's defeat might be.