Dollars and dimes! Dollars and dimes!
To be without cash is the worst of crimes!
It gets one into disgrace, anyway," she added.
"Poor child! I am afraid you have been hard up since----"
"Well," she interrupted, "it takes the courage out of one to have no money. You know that verse--
Whereunto is money good?
Who has it not wants hardihood;
Who has it has much trouble and care,
Who does not have it has despair."
"I shall have despair if I have not you!" he declared, moodily.
"No, you will not. You will find some one else to love--some one who has heaps and heaps of money. Then you will marry--will marry her." Doris's voice shook a little, but she waved him back when he would have drawn her to him again. "You will marry a girl with lots of money," she continued, more firmly now. "That is what your mother wants you to do. It is your one chance, she says, of retrieving your fortune."
"Did she say that to you, Doris?" His voice was hoarse, he looked very pale.
"She did."
"And that caused you to send me that dreadful message?" he asked.