“A week or ten days.”
“I don’t know how I am to live in the meantime,” said Cook, anxiously. “I am penniless, but for the money you have just given me.”
“At what price can you obtain board?”
“I know of a decent house where I can obtain board and a small room for five dollars a week.”
“Here are twelve dollars. This will pay for two weeks’ board, and give you a small sum besides. What is the address?”
Cook mentioned a number on a street by the river.
Carl took it down in a notebook with which he had provided himself.
“When I return to Albany,” he said, “I will call there at once.”
“You won’t forget me?”
“No; I shall be even more anxious to meet you than you will be to meet me. The one to whom your former wife is married is very near and dear to me, and I cannot bear to think that he has been so wronged and imposed upon!”