"They hold my IOUs for 29,000 pounds.

I need hardly say it is absolute ruin.
My intention is to make a clean breast to my father about it tomorrow morning.

My father will give me the money, in the first place because he loves me and would save my name from disgrace, and in the second because were I posted as a defaulter it would strike a severe blow at the credit of the bank.

So he will give me the money, but he will bid me leave his house forever.

That will matter little, for I shall pay the money, and tomorrow night I shall blow out my brains." "Well, sir, if you will follow my advice you will neither pay the money nor blow out your brains.