"Anything else?"
"I was looking over his bill this afternoon and it seems to me he did himself too well to be natural. Rare for a man by himself to order a long dinner like that. Then again he looked at the prices on the menu just as if he meant to spend up to a certain amount. Something odd in that—unusual. But I'm pretty sure it was in his mind, sir."
"And you believe he spent the last of his notes."
"Certain of it."
"What's your idea?"
"He was very hungry—eat everything put before him. I should say—'course it's only a guess——"
"Well?"
"He'd gone a bit short and was wanting that meal."
"Did he seem depressed?"
"Not a bit. Rather amused. But it struck me when he got up he looked like a man saying goodbye to his mother."