As the trees along the road-side flew past him, and the fresh air blew in his face, the baron's spirit revived.
A night and day were still his, and during their course he must needs find help.

This was not his first difficulty, and he hoped it would not be his last.

He had incurred this debt of, originally, seven thousand dollars odd, because the fellow who now dunned him had brought him the money some years ago, and entreated, almost forced him to take it at first at a very low rate of interest.

For a few weeks he had let it lie idle; then he had appropriated it, and step by step his creditor had increased his demands up to a bill of exchange and a usurious rate of interest.

And now the vagabond grew insolent.