"You don't look—very destitute—now."
"I am not. I have been lucky enough to find a good position. But that thirty-five dollars belonged to me. How much of it can you return to me?"
Maurice Graham colored and looked embarrassed.
"I—the fact is," he stammered, "I'm almost broke."
"Is this true?"
"On my honor I've only got a dollar and ten cents in my pocket, and I don't know what will become of me when that is gone."
"You have got rid of it very quick."
"I've been a fool," said Graham gloomily. "I spent it mostly on pool and drinks. Then of course I've had to live."
"But your situation——"
"I haven't any."