'You aren't going on the booze again, Jim—already?'
'No, sir. I want you to make out a cheque for—as much as I'm worth, payable to this name and at this address.' He tore off the portion of the sheet of letter-paper above the newspaper-cutting, scored out a few words with a stump of pencil, added three words of his own, and handed this upper portion to young Parker.
'And please to put in this slip with the cheque, sir.'
These were the three words that Jim had written—
'To cover expenses.'
II
The young lady whom Mr. Parker had raved about to Jim-of-the-Whim was Miss Genevieve Howard, of Melbourne; and, to do that young fellow justice, he had but praised one who gained golden opinions on almost every hand.
Miss Jenny had a pretty face, a perfect
