Then, as a vivid perception of consequences came to my mind, I aroused myself to make a last, desperate effort.
Hurriedly drawing a note at thirty days for five hundred dollars, I took it to a money-lender, whom I knew I could tempt by the offer of a large discount.

He gave me for it a check on the bank in which my notes were deposited, for four hundred and fifty dollars.

Just as the clock was striking three, I entered the banking-house.' "My husband paused.

I saw by the workings of his face and by the large beads of perspiration which stood upon his forehead, that he was indeed in earnest.

I never was so startled by any thing in my life.