So far as their borrowing
capacity was concerned, he could have walked up the marble steps
of any broker's office or bank on either side of the street--that
is, wherever he was known, and he was still remembered by many of
them--thrust the package through the cashier's window, and walked
down again with a certified check for their face value in his
pocket.
But the boy had other ends in view. Being human, and still
smarting under his uncle's ridicule and contempt, he wanted to
clear his own name and character; being loyal to his friend's
memory and feeling that Garry's reputation must be at least
patched up--and here in Breen's place and before the man who had
so bitterly denounced it; and being above all tender-hearted and
gallant where a woman, and a sorrowing one, was concerned, he must
give Corinne and the child a fair and square start in the house of
Breen, with no overdue accounts to vex her except such petty ones
as a small life insurance and a few uncollected commissions could
liquidate.
These much-to-be-desired results could only be attained when the
senior member of the firm was made acquainted with the fact that,
after all, Garry's debts could be paid and his reputation saved.
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