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One of these occasions when he needed it was approaching He had " at Des gaps in the tottering financial fabric known as his "personal accounts" The fabric would hold for a while, but o on with And Leila evidently had none He tried everybody except Plank He had scarcely the i the vicious circle, he found his borrowing capacity exhausted, and himself once more face to face with the only hope, Plank, he sat down to consider seriously the possibility of the matter

Of course Plank owed hirateful parvenu!--but what Plank had thought of that cheque transaction he had never been able to discover

Soations; and that round, leaving nothing, now that Plank was secure in club life

Of course the first thing that presented itself to Morti of Plank's ed He was always at Sylvia's heels; he was seen with her in public; he went to the Belwether house a great deal No possible doubt but that he was as infatuated as ever And Quarrier was going to marry her next November--that is, if he, Mortiht episode at Shotover

It was his inclination, except in theory, to keep silent, partly because of his native inertia and unwillingness to go to the physical and intellectual exertion of being a rascal, partly because he didn't really want to be a rascal of that sort

Like a man with premonitions of toothache, alks down to the dentist's just to see what the number of the house looks like, and then walks around the block to think it over, so Morti from lack of money, walked round and round the central idea, unable to bring himself to the point

Several times he called up Quarrier on the 'phone and s never resulted in anything except luncheons which Morti desperate

So one day, after having lunched too freely, he sat down and wrote Plank the following note: My Dear Beverly: You will re what, to you, is the dearest object of your existence I have thought, I have pondered, I have given the matter deep and, Ithat the life's happiness of ence to secure for him the opportunity to crown his life's work by the acquisition of the brightest jewel in the diadem of old Manhattan