"I see. Well, I must hurry. What time have you?"
"No time at all. My watch is gone."
"Hullo! Do you mean to say you've had to pawn it already. I thought you were one of the saving kind, to look out for a rainy day."
"The watch was stolen from me."
"Indeed!"
"Yes, and some of my money went with it."
"That's too bad, Robert," and Palmer's face was full of real sympathy.
"It is bad."
"I would loan you some money if I had it. But the truth is, I'm broke excepting for a couple of dollars that Jack Dixon advanced me on my salary."
"Thank you, Livingston, but I am not quite broke, even if I have been robbed."