She's too high class for a hobo like me; even if I had a ranch it would be playing it low down on a singer like her to ask her to go out there.

It's no use; I'm worse than a failure--I'm in a hole, and the first thing I've got to do is to earn money enough to get out of it." He was ashamed to go back to the little hotel to which he had said good-by with so much relief.

It was too expensive for him, anyhow, and so he set to work to find one near by which came within his changed condition.

He secured lodging at last in an old wooden shack on a side street not far from the station, where rooms could be had for twenty cents a night--in advance.

It was a wretched place, filled with cockroaches and other insects, but it was at least a hole in which he could den up for a few nights when sleep overcame him.