There the money was, upbraiding me with my own inconceivable folly, telling me in the plainest terms that I had risked depriving myself of my best and kindest friend henceforth and forever.
It was necessary to do something at once toward making all the atonement that lay in my power.

I felt that, as soon as I began to cool down a little.

There was but one plain, straight-forward way left now out of the scrape in which I had been mad enough to involve myself.

I took my hat, and, without stopping an instant to hesitate, hurried off to the bank to make a clean breast of it to Mr.Fauntleroy.
When I knocked at the private door and asked for him, I was told that he had not been at the bank for the last two days.

One of the other partners was there, however, and was working at that moment in his own room.
I sent in my name at once, and asked to see him.