Meanwhile Luke returned at once to the room of Ambrose Kean. He found the young man awaiting him with great anxiety.
"What success?" he asked, quickly.
"I have got the fifty dollars," answered Luke.
"Thank God! I am saved!" ejaculated the young man.
"Would you mind taking it round to the office with a note from me?" asked Kean.
"I will do so cheerfully."
"Then I shall feel at ease."
"Mrs. Merton would like to have you call on her. She remembered your mother at once."
"I shall be glad to do so, but shall be ashamed to meet her now that she knows of my yielding to temptation."
"You need not mind that. She also suffered from the rascality of Thomas Browning, and she will make allowances for you."