"Both have suffered enough.

Resolve, in the strength of God and your own manhood, to rise out of the horrible pit and miry clay into which you have fallen." "That is impossible.

So we won't talk about it," said Ellis, impatiently.

"Lend me half a dollar, won't you ?" The hand of Wilkinson went instinctively to his pocket.

But he withdrew it, without the coin he had designed, from the moment's impulse, to give.