"I can give it to you in about an hour."
"That is positive?"
"Yes."
"Very well, bring it to me. I have a customer who wishes just such a ticket, but I cannot hold him long."
At once Frederic hurried back to the hotel.
"I am going on board the steamer at once," he said. "Give me my ticket."
"You seem to be in a tremendous hurry," said Robert suspiciously.
"Well, I'll tell you the truth, Frost, since we are to part to meet no more. Some of my old creditors are after me and I want to give them the slip."
"I see."
Robert felt it would not be honorable to help Frederic Vernon escape his creditors, but at the same time there was no use in detaining the young man, since he would have no money with which to settle his old obligations.